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Hi, I'm Ajamal Khan

Associate Principal Engineer · 8+ Years

I architect and scale distributed, cloud-native systems at high-growth startups. Expert in building high-throughput microservices with Go and Python on AWS - from identity services and data pipelines to observability stacks and automated CI/CD.

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Tech Stack

The tools and technologies I reach for when building production software.

Python
Go
MongoDB
React
TypeScript
Node.js
Next.js
PostgreSQL
JavaScript
Git
Docker
AWS

Featured Work

A selection of projects I've built for clients and as side projects — each one shipping real value.

Let's Split

React Native Expo TypeScript Firebase iOS Android Go MongoDB

Let's Split

A clean, fast mobile app for splitting shared expenses with friends, roommates, and travel groups. Add expenses, split the bill instantly, and always know who owes what — without the awkward money conversations.

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Let's Split

The Problem It Solves

Splitting costs in groups is painful. People forget who paid for dinner, spreadsheets get abandoned, and asking friends to pay you back feels uncomfortable. Existing apps like Splitwise are feature-bloated and slow. Let’s Split focuses on the core loop — add an expense, split it, settle up — with a native mobile experience that’s fast, offline-capable, and pleasant to use daily.

Key pain points addressed:

  • No shared memory — groups lose track of who paid what over time
  • Manual math — calculating each person’s share, especially for uneven splits
  • Friction to log — most people don’t bother if it takes more than 10 seconds
  • Context switching — manually tagging and categorizing expenses is tedious (the app uses a Bayesian classifier to auto-suggest categories)

Explore Andamans

Python Flask MongoDB HTMX Next.js Redis Celery RabbitMQ AWS

Explore Andamans

A full-stack online tour booking platform for an Andaman Islands travel company — covering tour discovery, booking management, payment processing, leads tracking, and a complete admin dashboard for content and operations.

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Explore Andamans

Contracted to design and build the entire platform from scratch between January and June 2024. The goal was to replace a manual booking process with a fully self-serve online experience — tour discovery, availability checking, and secure payment in a single flow.

Backend & API: Built with Python and Flask, the backend handles tour catalogue management, booking lifecycle (enquiry → confirmation → payment), customer records, and a leads pipeline for the sales team. MongoDB stores tour packages, availability windows, and booking data in a flexible schema that the client can evolve without migrations.

Frontend: The customer-facing site uses HTMX for dynamic interactions — filtering tours, live availability checks, and booking forms — keeping the experience fast and server-driven without a heavy JS bundle. ImageKit handles responsive image delivery for tour photography.

Admin Dashboard: A separate Next.js dashboard gives the operations team full control over tour listings, pricing, availability, bookings, and leads — no engineering involvement needed for day-to-day content changes.

Integrations: Payment gateway for secure online transactions, Tawk.io live chat for customer support, and Google Tag Manager for analytics and conversion tracking.
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Testimonials

What people say about working with me.

Ajamal is a talented software engineer and a wonderful person to have in an engineering organization. As both his manager and someone who hired him, I was impressed by his agility and flexibility, allowing him to both rapidly develop products at a startup pace. Ajamal was one of the early engineering hires at Trodly and he joined us fresh out of college, two years down the line Ajamal was leading development on some of most important engineering challenges and products. He is open-minded and an extremely fast learner, easily and enthusiastically building expertise in new technologies and methodologies. He is also a pleasure to work with, always having a positive, constructive attitude, and quickly earns the trust and respect of those around him.

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Ankit Jindal

Founder & CEO, Trodly

I had the pleasure of working with Ajamal for one year at Chefling. Ajamal is a quick learner with clear architectural thinking which make him natural problem solver. Ajamal’s ability to handle multiple requests for quick backend changes was unlike any I’ve seen before. His collaborative and curious attitude will lead him to great success in his career. Wish him all the success.

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Anup Jyoti

Director of Engineering, Chefling

I had the pleasure of working with Ajamal Khan at DailyRounds, where his in-depth technical expertise and steady problem-solving made a real impact. Ajamal doesn’t just write code—he architects solutions. He has always helped us build efficient scalable systems thoughtfully, always considering performance and long-term maintainability. He was committed to keep pushing the engineering standards in the team. Reliable, collaborative, and intellectually curious, Ajamal elevates every project he touches. He is indeed who volunteers ownership of complex backend systems and drive team-wide excellence.

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Shobhan Vijay

Ex-VP of Product, Marrow

Ajamal's a ever curious professional, always looking for a way to build products in better, more robust way. We worked together during the early days of Trodly and his dedication to work was commendable. Over and above that a good person to work with and always open for ideas from teammates across discipline. He has a knack to work smart over just working hard. Ajamal is great addition to any product team. To many things you'll achieve. Cheers!

VJ

Vikas Johiya

Co-Founder, Trodly

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