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Hi all, I'm Rahul

Full-Stack Developer & Cloud Engineer

I'm from Patna, I'm self-taught, and I genuinely enjoy the boring parts — the DNS that won't resolve, the certificate that expired, the deploy that broke at 2am. Give me a broken server and a cup of chai and I'm happy. Websites, Telegram bots, UI/UX, thumbnails, social media handling — or any online work you want off your plate.

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Rahul

yeah, that's me.
Not a stock photo, not a render — well, mostly.

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About me

There's a person behind the commits

Rahul

Practically: I read logs before I read theories. I'd rather fix one real server than argue about ten imaginary architectures.

the face behind the terminal
My desk at night

My desk, 1:40am. Chai (4th cup), a notebook I never open, and one cactus that has outlived three side projects.

where it happens

I didn't come into this through a computer science degree. I started with a second-hand laptop, a slow internet connection, and a habit of breaking things just to see if I could put them back together. My first "production server" was a cheap VPS I set up in my room — and I locked myself out of it twice in the same week.

Somewhere along the way that stopped being a hobby. Now I build and run real systems for real people: hosting panels, payment flows, deployment pipelines, servers that quietly do their job at 3am. I care about the parts users never notice — the response that comes back in 80ms instead of 800, the backup that exists, the certificate that renewed itself.

I write code the way I'd want someone else to write it for me: readable, documented, and honest about what it doesn't handle yet. And if something I built breaks, I want to be the first one to know, not the last.

— written by me, not a template
  • Chai, not coffee. Three cups is a normal Tuesday.
  • Night owl. Best code happens after 11pm.
  • I still Google "center a div". Every single time.
  • Patna → the internet. Deploys from here, runs over there.
  • Lo-fi while debugging, dead silence while deploying.
  • Learning in public — mistakes included.
  • I build bots that answer at 3am so nobody has to.
  • Thumbnail first, video second — that's the rule.
Honest note: I'm not the "10x engineer" guy from the threads. I'm the person who shows up, asks three clarifying questions, and then quietly hands you something that actually works.
// right now● live
BuildingAstraHost v2 — cleaner panel, faster deploys
BotsTelegram bots for delivery, alerts and admin panels
LearningKubernetes + cyber security basics (honestly, slowly)
Open toWebsites · bots · UI/UX · thumbnails · social media · any online work
Services

Eight things I do — pick any, or all

Websites, bots, design, social media handling, security — and the odd online job nobody else wants to touch.

Website Development

Full sites end-to-end — design, frontend, backend, database and deployment. Landing pages to full panels, mobile-first every time.

one file, zero frameworks — this page is the proof

Telegram & Discord Bots

Telegram bots and any bot — payments, auto-replies, file delivery, admin panels, group moderation, webhooks. Runs 24×7 while I sleep.

my bots reply at 3am. I don't.

UI/UX Design

Wireframes, clean layouts and design systems that don't fight the user. If it needs three taps, it needs one.

I design it in Figma, then build the same thing in real pixels

Social Media Handling

Handles, content calendars, posting, captions, replies and growth — Instagram, YouTube, Telegram channels.

yes, I'll reply to your DMs so you don't have to

Thumbnails & Banners

YouTube thumbnails that get clicked, channel banners, posters, profile art and social media creatives.

a thumbnail is a 0.4-second job interview

Cyber Security Basics

Server hardening, SSL/TLS, firewall and port hygiene, backup checks, phishing-proofing and basic security audits.

I lock the door before someone else finds the key

Cloud & Servers

AWS, VPS, Nginx, DNS, TLS and backups — set up, documented, then left alone to quietly do its job.

yes, I read nginx error logs for fun

Any Online Work

Data entry, research, formatting, Excel sheets, PDF work, form filling, uploads — if it's online and it needs doing, ask.

no job too small. some of them pay surprisingly well.
Languages & Tools

Everything I've written, broken, and fixed

Real brand colours, all inline SVG. Tap or hover one — it glows.

JavaScript
TypeScript
Python
Java
C
C++
C#
PHP
Go
Rust
Ruby
Swift
Kotlin
Dart
HTML5
CSS3
React
Next.js
Vue
Tailwind
Bootstrap
Sass
Vite
Node.js
Express
Django
Flask
FastAPI
Laravel
GraphQL
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Redis
SQLite
Firebase
Prisma
WordPress
Docker
Kubernetes
NGINX
Linux
Bash
AWS
Cloudflare
Vercel
Git
GitHub
GitLab
Jenkins
Terraform
Ansible
DigitalOcean
Canva
Photoshop
Illustrator
Premiere Pro
After Effects
XD
Figma
Telegram
Discord
WhatsApp
YouTube
Instagram
Meta
Buffer
Notion
Google Analytics
Postman
Markdown
npm
Yarn
Swagger
Stripe
JSON
Cloudinary
Proficiency

What I'm actually good at (and how good)

No 99% bars here. These are honest numbers, not marketing.

Node.js / Express90%
System & Cloud (AWS · Nginx · Linux)85%
JavaScript / TypeScript & UI88%
Databases (MongoDB · MySQL · Redis)82%
Python (FastAPI · scripting)78%
Telegram & Discord Bots85%
UI/UX · Thumbnails · Banners80%
Social Media Handling75%
Kubernetes45%
↑ the last one is honest. Everyone starts somewhere.
Experience

Where I've learned (the hard way)

Founder & Full-Stack Developer

2024 — Present
AstraHost
  • Built the hosting panel end-to-end — frontend, APIs and the deployment behind them.
  • Run the production VPS fleet: Nginx, TLS, DNS, backups and monitoring.
  • Shipped a payment flow with webhook verification and automatic reconciliation.
Lesson: a customer noticing a bug hurts more than any error log.

Backend Developer

2023 — 2024
YouPI
  • Wrote and maintained payment gateway services in Node.js.
  • Cut API response times with caching, indexing and connection pooling.
  • Added structured logging and alerting that brought incidents down to minutes.
Lesson: money-moving code teaches you respect for edge cases.

Freelance Systems Engineer

2022 — 2023
Independent
  • Deployed and hardened 20+ Linux servers for small businesses.
  • Automated backups, SSL renewal and uptime checks with scripts and cron.
  • Built single-page sites and dashboards with zero external dependencies.
Lesson: "it works on my machine" is never the end of the sentence.
Learning & certificates

What I actually studied

One proper computer diploma, a security certificate, and a suspicious number of late nights.

✓ complete

ADCA

Advanced Diploma in Computer Applications — the full course, finished. That's where the computer stuff actually started for me.

Diploma · completed
yes — actually completed, not half-done
✓ basics covered

Cyber Security Basics

How attackers think, and how to make it boring for them — hardening, phishing, ports, passwords, backups and safe deployments.

Security · fundamentals
so your server doesn't end up on a list
↻ ongoing

Self-taught Web Development

Frontend, backend, databases, bots and deployment — learned by shipping real things for real people, and breaking a few along the way.

Still learning · always
the best course is a broken deploy at 2am
Projects

Things I've actually shipped

Laptop pe ring ghumao, phone pe swipe karo — nine real projects.

AstraHost Panel

Hosting control panel with billing, service management and a live status map.

the one that pays the bills
NodeNginxAWS

Payment Gateway

UPI + card flow with webhook verification and reconciliation reports.

the one that taught me patience
ExpressWebhooksMySQL

Server Monitor

Multi-server health dashboard — CPU, RAM, disk, uptime and alerts.

the one that wakes me at 3am
PythonRedisCharts

Whack-a-Bot

Tiny arcade game, fully self-contained in one file. No engines, no CDN.

the one I built just for fun
CanvasJSGame

DNS & TLS Automation

Cloudflare + Let's Encrypt pipeline that renews and verifies itself.

the one nobody notices — perfect
APIBashCertbot

Deploy Toolkit

One-command tar + scp + extract deploy with health checks and rollback.

the one I use every day
ShellSSHCI

Bot Studio

Telegram and Discord bots that take orders, take payments and deliver files while I sleep.

my bots reply at 3am
TelegramPythonPayments

Thumbnail & Banner Kit

YouTube thumbnails, channel banners and posters — designed to get clicked, not just to look pretty.

clicks happen at the thumbnail
PhotoshopCanvaFigma

Sentinel Checks

Basic security pass on small sites — headers, TLS, DNS, open ports and backup sanity.

the boring checks that stop the 2am call
SecurityNginxDNS

Let's build something worth using

Got a website to build, a bot to make, thumbnails to design, socials to handle, or a server that's misbehaving? Tell me about it. I reply to almost everything — usually within a few hours, unless it's 3am and I'm finally asleep.

My local time · IST --:--:--
— if it's late here, I'm probably still up anyway