About — Mahdi Shafiei

1.AboutMe

I'm Mahdi, a backend developer who ships maintainable systems. I work at the architecture level — data models, API contracts and service boundaries — and carry them all the way to production: Django and PostgreSQL behind REST APIs, packaged with Docker, served by Nginx on Linux, and deployed with a single command.

Backend Architecture & Data Modeling

REST APIs with Django & Django REST Framework

Docker, Nginx & Linux Deployments

Networking, TLS & Server Operations

Current Activity & Profiles

Active in 2026 • Open for Opportunities

CURRENT FOCUS Active

Backend Systems

Designing clean Django backends — data models, API contracts and admin tooling — and shipping them to Linux servers with Docker and Nginx.

CORE STACK: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, Nginx

GITHUB CODE 0 Projects

Projects & Tooling

Public repositories from concept to deployment — Django apps, a GitHub sync command and a one-command multi-project server installer.

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Open to Roles

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Backend Developer • Python & Django

Open for backend engineering roles, freelance projects and interesting collaborations.

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EngineeringJourney

STAGE 01/04 • AUTO-RUNNING

Python & Django Foundations

From Scripts to Web Apps

Started with Python and moved into Django: URL routing, views, the ORM and templates. Learned to model the data first and let the framework do the rest — and picked up Git and Linux along the way.

Language Python

Framework Django

Tooling Git & Linux

PythonDjangoSQLGitHTML & CSS

REST APIs & Database Design

Contracts First, Then Code

Designed REST APIs with Django REST Framework on top of carefully modeled PostgreSQL schemas, with Redis for caching and validation handled at the API boundary.

API Django REST Framework

Database PostgreSQL

Cache Redis

Django REST FrameworkPostgreSQLRedisSQLpytest

Docker, Nginx & Linux

From Localhost to Production

Containerized apps with Docker Compose, put Nginx in front as a reverse proxy with TLS from certbot, and ran them on Linux servers — including servers where CDNs are blocked, which meant self-hosting every asset.

Runtime Docker Compose

Edge Nginx + certbot

OS Ubuntu Linux

DockerDocker ComposeNginxcertbotBashLinux

One-Command Multi-Project Installer

Shared Nginx, Isolated Stacks

Built this portfolio and its installer: one command provisions Docker, the shared host Nginx and SSL, running several projects side by side on one server. Cut the static payload from 96 MB to 317 KB with hashed, pre-compressed assets.

Install 1 Command

Static Assets 96 MB → 317 KB

Tests pytest suite

DjangoDockerNginxBashWhiteNoisepytest