01
Backend & APIs
- Node.js & TypeScript Primary
- FastAPI & Python Current
- Prisma, SQLAlchemy, Mongoose, Alembic ORMs
- Redis, RabbitMQ Queues
- Celery, Lambda, Firebase Functions Jobs
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Hi, I'm Abhishek Navgan
I build production-ready backend systems,
automate cloud deployments,
and enjoy making infrastructure less painful.
Over the past few years I've worked across frontend, backend, AI, and DevOps, building products from idea to deployment. These days I'm focused on backend engineering and DevOps, while continuing to learn more about cloud infrastructure and understanding how the software reaches the end user.
01 / Career Timeline
Experience
Software Engineer Current
Nova Techset Ltd. · PuneFull-time · Backend & DevOps
Freelance Full Stack & DevOps Engineer
Self-employedSaaS apps · Cloud & deployments
Full Stack Developer / Team Lead
Somvanshi Technologies · PuneFull-time · on-site
Full Stack Developer · Internship
XYZ Company · PuneFull stack · React.js · Node.js
02 / Engineering Stack
Technical Toolkit
02
DevOps & Infrastructure
My work focuses on building deployment pipelines and the infrastructure around them. From Dockerizing applications and configuring reverse proxies to automating CI/CD workflows, I enjoy making deployments predictable and easy to manage.
I'm comfortable working with Docker, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Nginx, Linux, and AWS, and I'm currently exploring Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern cloud-native practices.
03
AI & Integrations
Building AI applications using RAG, multimodal generation, and agentic workflows. I've worked with LLMs for document understanding, image generation, prompt optimization, and streamed AI interactions.
04
Data Layer
Relational
PostgreSQL · MySQL
Documents
MongoDB
Cache
Redis
Vector Search
Pinecone
Tooling
Prisma · SQLAlchemy · Alembic · Mongoose
05
Cloud Technologies
IAM
Identity, access policies & role management
Compute
VMs, containers & serverless workloads
Networking
VPCs, DNS, routing & load balancing
Storage
Object, block & file storage services
06
Frontend
Language
TypeScript
Frameworks
React
·
Next.js
Styling & UI
Tailwind CSS
·
HTML & CSS
Infrastructure Journey
Already Comfortable
- Containerization
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Server Administration
- Version Control
Currently Learning
- Infrastructure as Code
- Container orchestration
- Observability
Next Up
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Monitoring & Reliability
03 / Side Builds
Hobby Projects
Personal experiments which helped me learn and grow.
ThumbCraft
Generative AI thumbnail studio for YouTube-ready visuals. multimodal text-to-image and image-to-image generation with a multistep, AI-enhanced preferences flow. OpenAI prompt enhancement, 8 high-CTR SVG templates, direct Cloudinary CDN delivery, and searchable generation history with bulk ZIP export. Featured as a Top 3 project on ChaiCode's YouTube channel.
Generative AI
Multimodal
Multistep AI
Cloudinary CDN
Gemini
OpenAI
React
Node.js
ECHO
Full-stack RAG document analysis platform for intelligent, context-aware Q&A over your own files. Upload DOCX, PDF, and more — documents are chunked, embedded, and indexed in Pinecone for fast retrieval. LangChain + OpenAI generate cited, source-backed answers from retrieved context. React + TailwindCSS frontend, Node.js + Express backend with rate limiting, CORS, and Google OAuth auth.
RAG
LangChain
Pinecone
Vector DB
OpenAI
React
Node.js
MongoDB
Devnest
AI-powered full-stack learning platform for developers. RBAC course management with sections, video lectures, Razorpay payments, and instructor analytics. Nestor AI assistant for navigation and programming help, real-time Codespace with Monaco editor, community chat forums, and Cloudinary chunked video streaming with piracy protection. React + Zustand frontend, Node.js + Express backend with MongoDB, Socket.IO, and Gemini.
React
Zustand
Socket.IO
MongoDB
Gemini
Razorpay
Cloudinary
Node.js
04 / Character Sheet
FAQ Nobody Asked
Honest answers about how I work, how I got here, and what I do when Docker is behaving. No synergize allowed.
I just kept getting curious. Started with CSS... then frontend, backend, AI, FastAPI, Docker. Every time I learned something, it introduced me to five more things.
I don't really chase technologies. I just work on whatever helps solve the problem. The stack changes on its own.
I don't actually hate Java. My college professor just made sure our relationship had a terrible start 😂
I can go from watching Kubernetes videos to "Why does this country have two capitals?" in under 10 minutes.
Mostly infrastructure. I reached the point where I'm more interested in how software runs than how it looks.