Hire a Django Developer in India
Hire a senior Django developer in India. I build production Django/DRF backends, REST APIs, and PostgreSQL systems that scale — remote, IST, international clients welcome.
Looking to hire a Django developer in India? I’m Kuldeep Pisda — a senior backend engineer and former startup CTO based in Bengaluru. For 6+ years I’ve built and run production Django systems: REST APIs, multi-tenant SaaS backends, payment and auth integrations, and the PostgreSQL underneath them — for startups and non-profits, remote, on IST, working comfortably with teams across the world.
What I build with Django
- REST APIs with Django REST Framework — clean serializers, viewsets, permissions, versioning, and the sparse-fieldset patterns that keep responses fast.
- Multi-tenant SaaS — a single Django backend serving many frontends, with proper tenant isolation (I wrote django-rls, a PostgreSQL row-level-security library for exactly this).
- Performance work — turning 30-second endpoints into 200ms ones with
select_related/prefetch_related, real indexes, and query-plan analysis, not guesswork. - Auth, payments, and integrations — Keycloak SSO, payment gateways, and third-party sync pipelines that don’t fall over.
- Background processing — Celery/RabbitMQ with a queue per workload, so a slow job never blocks a payment.
Experience you’re hiring
On a 30,000-user learning platform I took a course-list endpoint from 30 seconds on Indian 4G down to ~200ms — a single request was firing 900+ database queries, and the fix was killing the N+1s, adding real Postgres indexes, and letting clients fetch only the fields they asked for, not bolting a cache onto a bad query. On the same platform I migrated a live, revenue-earning backend off a headless CMS onto Django with the strangler-fig pattern — one endpoint at a time behind an nginx routing seam, no big-bang cutover, no freeze, the site up throughout. The full case study walks through those decisions chapter by chapter. I’m a DjangoCon US and DjangoCon Europe speaker, and I test what I ship (pytest, TDD where it earns its keep).
How engagements work
Short, well-scoped engagements with a written plan and testable milestones — fixed-scope projects, ongoing retainers, or a few hours of architecture review. Remote-first, async-friendly, based in India (IST) and used to overlapping with US and EU hours.
FAQ
Are you available for international clients? Yes — I work remotely with clients in the US, EU, and India, and structure hours to overlap when it matters.
Do you do fixed-scope projects or ongoing work? Both. Some clients want a defined project delivered; others want a senior Django hand on retainer.
What does it cost? Most engagements start with an audit of your Django codebase — models, queries, and API layer — at ₹2,00,000 + GST: written findings with ranked fixes in 7 calendar days, plus a 60-minute walkthrough call. Fixed-scope builds are quoted in writing after the audit, and the audit fee is credited toward any build started within 60 days. If you just need a quick call on a specific decision, a second opinion is ₹30,000 + GST — one 90-minute call and a written recommendation within 48 hours. Pricing shown is for India-registered companies; international clients are billed in USD — see services.
Can you work with an existing codebase? Absolutely — a lot of my work is improving, scaling, or migrating existing Django apps, not just greenfield builds.
Do you also handle DevOps and databases? Yes. I own the PostgreSQL layer and can set up the AWS/CI/CD around a Django app — I’ve done founding-SRE work and SOC 2 compliance.
Let’s talk
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