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Safal Gawande

@safalgawande

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Backend-focused full stack developer building fast, scalable cloud APIs and platforms.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build production-grade backend systems and full-stack features—scalable APIs, clean architecture, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure—while growing with a strong engineering team.

I’m a backend-focused full stack developer skilled in Node.js, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, and REST APIs. I’ve built production-style cloud systems like a usage metering and billing engine and a Sessions Marketplace, with modular APIs and performance targets like response time <200ms.

I also bring strong engineering fundamentals in scalable backend architecture, database design, and CI/CD, and I’ve Dockerized multi-service deployments with AWS. Alongside development work, I contributed to open source by improving exception handling and container health checks, and I completed research on speech recognition where I fine-tuned the Whisper model for better transcription accuracy.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Research Intern

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India

Dec 2024 - Jan 2025 (1 month)

Worked on an audio signal processing project for noise reduction, feature extraction, and speech recognition using 1,100+ Hindi audio samples. Fine-tuned the Whisper model, improving Word Error Rate (WER) for transcription by approximately 70%.

Audio Signal Processing Noise Reduction Tuning Feature Extraction Speech Recognition Hindi Speech Processing Whisper