// Brisbane, AU · Open to senior roles
I build backends that don't break - and own them when they do.
Seven years spent on the unglamorous half of engineering - auth, payments, compliance, the 2am pager - turning the systems nobody wants to touch into the ones nobody has to think about.
- python
- django
- postgresql
- aws
- celery
- react
- docker
Featured Work
All projects →HoneyDjango
An open-source honeypot you drop into a Django project. It serves fake decoy endpoints, then fingerprints and maps everyone who takes the bait.
- Django
- Celery
- Redis
- Channels
- PostgreSQL
- WebSockets
Pantry Run
A real-time, offline-first shopping-list PWA for households — built to solve a problem in my own kitchen, and now used by a handful of families.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- PWA
EZTax Nepal
A production SaaS for municipal advertisement-tax collection — built solo, and later re-platformed off AWS to cut costs.
- Django REST Framework
- React
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- Hetzner
- Cloudflare
ImagePal
A privacy-first image & PDF toolkit that does all its processing in the browser — your files never touch a server.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Zustand
- Web Workers
- pdf-lib
- Cloudflare Pages
Career
Jul 2021 — Mar 2026
Senior Software Engineer
Airbase (acquired by Paylocity)
Nov 2020 — Jul 2021
Lead Software Developer
Revv Inc
Feb 2019 — Oct 2020
Software Development Engineer II
Fyle (acquired by Sage)
Jun 2018 — Jan 2019
Software Engineer
Odessa Technologies
Latest Writing
All posts →-
I added a honeypot to my production Django app, and the first attack came in 30 minutes
The real story of deploying honeydj into a live SaaS: the infrastructure I had to add, how I did it without breaking production, and what the first day of attacker traffic looked like.
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I read about honeypots, then built one for Django
What a honeypot actually is, why there was no good option for Django, and how I built and shipped one to PyPI called honeydj.
On GitHub
@bistasulove →pantry-run
Real-time, offline-first shopping-list PWA for households.
banshawali-frontend
Interactive family-tree UI built with React Flow.
banshawali-backend
Multi-tenant genealogy API on Django REST Framework.
portfolio
This site — built with Astro and Tailwind CSS.