Saurav Sharma
Saurav Sharma

Saurav Sharma is a backend engineer who builds SaaS products end to end, currently working on and LazyPlanner.

Build logs on Twitter, code on GitHub, writing on Blog, full resume here.

Open to remote backend roles: Python, Django, FastAPI, Go, real-time AI. Based in India (IST), happy to overlap with EU or US hours.

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The story so far

I taught myself to code on freeCodeCamp, then spent 5+ years shipping Django backends for clients around the world: payroll SaaS, recruiting tools, lead routing, voice AI. Remote gigs, full-time and freelance.

Between roles I built my own products: ox (deploy platform), LazyPlanner (AI planning SaaS) and Tymr (focus timer). Building them taught me Go, HTMX, real-time AI, what makes design good, and the sales side (cold email, copywriting, reading buyers).

Today I run ox, which deploys apps from GitHub to a server you own, and LazyPlanner already runs on it. I am also looking for a remote backend role on a product team, where I can bring both the client experience and the habit of owning a product end to end. If I join your team, that is my main job; ox stays a side project I keep running.

Projects

Beta, free Go · HTMX · systemd · Caddy

My main project. Connect a GitHub repo and ox deploys it to your own Ubuntu server with systemd and Caddy, no Docker. It reads the repo, so most stacks need no config.

  • Checks a plan before every deploy, switches releases with no downtime, and keeps the live one running if an update fails.
  • One-click rollback, daily backups, and preview environments per branch that you can promote.
  • A console, a CLI with --json on every command, and an llms.txt for AI agents.
  • Deployed 85 open-source apps (Mastodon, Ghost, NetBox, Keycloak and more) on fresh servers with no Docker, each one tested after a deploy, backup, redeploy and reboot.

Website Docs Story Examples on GitHub

Posts: 85 apps deployed with ox, Why I stopped paying for Vercel, Why I built ox, FastAPI on your own VPS

  • LazyPlanner AI planning SaaS, built solo and deployed with ox. Django · Vue · Celery · my project
  • Tymr Real-time focus timer. Django · Channels · my project
  • Generative Studio Backend for real-time AI voice agents: LiveKit audio, Deepgram, ElevenLabs and Telnyx phone calls, 2025. FastAPI · LiveKit · client work
  • LeadPlane Built from scratch: routes leads into CRM, email and WhatsApp. Django · Celery · client work
  • The Payroll App Owned backend features for a live payroll SaaS: payroll runs, tax reporting, benefits. Django · PostgreSQL · client work

Blog

All writing, 26 posts

Photos corner

Overlooking a palace in Jaipur Coding setup Black outfit in Mussoorie
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