About Me

I am Mangesh (मंगेश बिडे), a software engineer from India who works across the stack.

Day to day, I am a Software Development Engineer I at House Works Technology. There, I led a greenfield authentication and authorization platform. I also own the backend stack (Django, DRF, PostgreSQL, AWS) of a HIPAA-aligned multi-tenant healthcare SaaS. On my own time I ship applied-AI projects end to end: RAG pipelines, tool-calling agents, and compliance tooling. Most of them are self-taught and run at a live URL. I write about most of it so others do not have to figure it out the hard way.

How I got here

I got into programming because I wanted to understand how video games worked. Started self-taught, then did a B.Tech in Computer Engineering to fill in the gaps.

After that, I built web apps, ML systems, and a lot of stuff in between. The most useful thing I picked up is that writing code other people can actually maintain matters more than being clever.

What I spend my time on

• Backend systems and APIs: Django and FastAPI over PostgreSQL, with auth and access control
• Applied AI: RAG pipelines, tool-calling agents, and tooling for PHI and compliance
• Infrastructure: Terraform and Docker, plus a k3s homelab on OCI, so environments rebuild from code instead of memory
• Writing about things I figure out (so I do not forget, mostly)
• Small tools that automate stuff I got tired of doing manually

Tech I use

Outside work

Mostly games (Red Dead Redemption 2, Spider-Man), sci-fi, and anything about space. A bit more here.

Find me

If you want to chat about code, projects, or a role, get in touch.