Senior Django/Python Platform Engineer

Senior full-stack Django/Python engineer for founders and lean teams that need platform, product, architecture, and ops ownership. Django has been a daily driver since 2018, with deep knowledge of ORM, migrations, admin, middleware, signals, async, and deployment. Builds production web platforms, APIs, integrations, internal tools, document/data automation, and AI-enabled workflows. Recent R&D includes generative image/video pipelines, Lora training, multi-model orchestration, prompt architecture, and repeatable creative AI tooling, with a broader focus on platform engineering. Open to fractional or project-based work, especially 2-6 week focused cycles with startup founders, cofounders, agencies, or product teams.