{"hero":{"headline":"Nima Shadloo — Backend Developer","subpitch":"I build backends with Django and Django REST Framework, and I'm comfortable owning the whole path to production — designing the API, setting up the database, and getting everything running on a VPS. I like work that stays simple and holds up over time.","primary_cta_label":"View Projects","secondary_cta_label":"Résumé"},"about":{"tagline":"Self-taught backend developer who likes building things that just work.","bio":"I'm Nima — a backend developer who builds things that are meant to run in production, not just pass a demo. Most of my work is in Django and Django REST Framework, designing and building APIs, but I don't consider a project finished when the code is written. I take it through to deployment and keep it running — the database, the web server, the operational details that decide whether something holds up under real use. I care about following a project from the first endpoint to a service people actually depend on.\r\n\r\nThe part I value most is the design: working out how a system should be structured before any of it runs, getting that shape right, and then seeing it hold together in practice. That's the appeal of backend for me. The work is largely invisible when it's done well, it's mine to own end to end, and the problems it solves are usually ones the user never has to think about.\r\n\r\nI'm self-taught and currently studying computer engineering, so I'm constantly working at the edge of what I know. I've come to treat that as the normal state rather than something to avoid. Every project surfaces something I hadn't understood yet, and I'd rather keep learning that way than assume I've got it figured out.\r\n\r\nAs a person, I like to build and own things — whether they already exist or not. When I come across an app or a system, my instinct is to understand how its backend actually works, to take it apart in my head and learn what makes it run. I deliberately pick hard projects, the kind that drop me into a real problem and force me to think my way to a solution. I never avoid the difficult ones, because those are where the actual learning happens — everything I genuinely know, I learned from the projects that were hard.","photo":"https://nimashadloo.dev/media/about/photo_2026-06-30_22.18.40.jpeg"},"footer":{"copyright_text":"© 2026 Nima Shadloo"},"seo":{"site_title":"Nima Shadloo | Backend Developer","meta_description":"Nima Shadloo is a backend developer working with Django and DRF — building APIs and deploying them to production.","og_image":null,"alternate_name":"","job_title":"","twitter_handle":"","same_as":[]},"skills":{"categories":[{"name":"Backend","skills":[{"name":"Python"},{"name":"Django"},{"name":"Django REST Framework"},{"name":"REST API design"},{"name":"JWT authentication"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"}]},{"name":"DevOps & Deployment","skills":[{"name":"Linux"},{"name":"Nginx"},{"name":"Gunicorn"}]},{"name":"Tools & Other","skills":[{"name":"Git / Github"}]}],"ungrouped":[]},"socials":[{"label":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com/n-shadloo/","icon":"github","order":1},{"label":"LinkedIn","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/nima-shadloo/","icon":"linkedin","order":2}]}