Amaan Zaidi — Backend & Full-Stack Developer

Systems that run in production.

I build real-world systems, developer tools and the infrastructure that ships them, then deploy them.

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01 Backend

APIs, auth, queues and workflow engines on Node.js.

02 Infrastructure

Docker, AWS, Nginx and CI/CD, all the way to production.

03 Developer tools

Open-source tooling that removes the boilerplate.

04 Security & networks

How packets, protocols and trust actually work.

Selected work — AsyncNode, Backkit, BlackBox

01 — About

I learn how systems work by building them.

I'm Amaan, a second-year Computer Science student and a backend-focused full-stack developer. I care less about demos and more about what happens after the demo: queues, databases, deployments and the 502 at 2 a.m.

I've shipped a visual workflow engine, published an npm scaffolding CLI, and built the backends for a college fest platform (RBAC, registrations, gatepasses) and an S3-backed CMS on EC2. Along the way I've expanded EC2 volumes, chased Nginx 502s, untangled Drizzle migrations and wired GitHub Actions deploys over SSH. I also teach networking and security at our college dev club.

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05Systems built

01npm package

45hCybersecurity 101

2ndYear, CS