Senior Software Engineer · Aspiring Staff Engineer

I solve the real problem, not the obvious one.

I'm Ashutosh Kumar — a senior software engineer with 5+ years building backend systems, platform infrastructure, and developer tooling in Python. I work from first principles: find the real problem beneath the obvious one, reason about the system, then ship something clear and durable. Open to senior and staff engineering roles.

Experience
5+ years
Core Stack
Python · FastAPI · AWS
Focus
Backend · Platform · Tooling
Open To
Senior & Staff roles
01 / Projects

Tools I've built

A focused selection, ordered by what I'm most proud of. The first two include the reasoning behind them; the rest are quick to scan.

01

todo_notifier

Python

Surfaces forgotten TODOs across a codebase before they rot.

Repository

Challenge

TODO comments accumulate silently in large codebases. They drift out of sight, lose their owner, and quietly become technical debt that no one is accountable for.

Approach

Built a configurable scanner that parses source files for TODO-style markers, attributes them to authors and modules, and compiles a structured report. Designed to drop into CI so the signal reaches the team automatically rather than relying on memory.

Result

Turns scattered, invisible intentions into a tracked, reviewable list — making deferred work explicit and giving teams a deliberate way to pay down debt.

  • Static analysis
  • Automation
  • CI
  • Open Source
02

dtoc

Browser ExtensionAI-assisted

A browser extension that keeps readers oriented on long-form pages.

Repository

Challenge

Long-form pages — Medium articles, GitHub READMEs, sprawling docs — are easy to get lost in. Readers lose their place, and the page itself rarely offers a way to see the whole at a glance.

Approach

Shipped dtoc as an open-source browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. It reads a page's heading structure and generates a live table of contents on any page, updating itself as you read.

Result

Active users across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge get instant, reliable navigation across the long-form content they read every day — turning a wall of text into something they can move through with intent.

  • Browser Extension
  • Open Source
  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Edge