About
I'm Aakash. I build the things other developers pass on.
I have been a developer since 2017 and I have been taking Linux machines apart since I was a kid. Most of my work is long-term: I join a product, learn it properly and stay. My real skill is not a list of frameworks. It is that I can work with anything, including the stuff I have never seen before.
- Developer since
- 2017
- Hours on Upwork
- 9000+
- Earned on Upwork
- $100K+
- Job success
- 100%
Some of the work
A 2003 billboard, online
An LED billboard controller from 2003 that only spoke to one old desktop program. I made it work with a website, so images could be uploaded online and appear on the billboard. Still one of the hardest jobs I have done.
A Shopify app joining two marketplaces
A Shopify app that connected two marketplaces so products and orders flowed between them without manual work.
Video calling
Real-time video calls built into products, which is a different world from normal web requests.
Connectors for things without an API
Unofficial connectors and scrapers for services that never offered a public API.
A creator platform
My current main project: a creator subscription platform I build and run end to end.
Mobile apps
A fitness app in React Native and a language-learning app in Flutter, for Android and iOS.
What I work with
- Frontend
- React and Next.js, Vue and Nuxt, TypeScript
- Backend
- Node.js and Express, Supabase, PHP and Laravel, REST APIs
- Mobile
- React Native, Flutter
- Data
- MySQL and Postgres day to day, MongoDB when it fits
- Cloud
- AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, MediaConvert), Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare
- Ops
- Linux, NGINX, Docker, CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, monitoring and security hardening
- Payments
- All the major payment gateways and subscription billing
How I work
I prefer hourly work with a daily update. You see what got done, you pay for real hours, and you can change direction whenever the business needs it. Fixed-price projects are fine when the scope is clear and big enough to do properly.
I like problems with an actual problem in them: a system that needs to talk to something it was never designed for, an app that fell apart after the last developer left, a cloud bill that makes no sense. I am less interested in "we need a good developer for stuff".
I do not take on mentoring, Kubernetes, or web3 and blockchain work.
Introductory offer
Free cloud cost optimization. You only pay from what I save.
I cut your AWS, cloud, Supabase or Vercel bill for free and keep half of what I save for 6 months. Save nothing, pay nothing. Code, architecture and infrastructure.
Lovable 2 Live
I am also the founder of Lovable 2 Live, where we take apps built with Lovable to production: security, Supabase migrations and native mobile apps.
Find me
- Upwork: 9000+ hours, 100% job success
- Instagram @norsky.dev: short videos on taking apps to production
- GitHub
- The blog: what I build and what I learn