YLYash Lunawat
Freelance · available Q4 2026

Backends, deploy pipelines and internal tools. Built by one engineer, handed over clean.

I'm Yash, a backend and DevOps engineer in India. I take a small number of fixed-scope projects at a time. Work is split into priced milestones, and I invoice each one after you approve it.

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01 What I build

APIs and backends

REST APIs, auth and roles, payments, background jobs, the database schema under all of it.

Built before: FundOS, SCP Portal

Cloudflare apps

Workers, D1, Durable Objects, R2 and Queues. Fast to run, cheap to host, no servers to patch.

Built before: Babel Room, BrainMCP, Angel OS

DevOps and deploys

CI/CD, Docker, VPS setup, backups and uptime checks. Deploys you can run without me.

Built before: Vessel, Health Check

Internal tools

Admin panels and ops dashboards that replace the spreadsheet your team keeps fighting with.

Built before: Angel OS, FundOS

AI features

LLM pipelines, MCP servers, and evals that pick a model on measured cost and accuracy.

Built before: Yardstick, BrainMCP

Developer tooling

CLIs, Git infrastructure and small utilities that remove one daily annoyance for your team.

Built before: CanIStart, Forge

02 Selected work

  1. FundOS VC operating system for portfolio intelligence and LP operations Next.js · PostgreSQL · Redis · Trigger.dev
  2. Babel Room Real-time multilingual voice conferencing on the Cloudflare edge, no external servers Workers · Durable Objects · Workers AI · WebRTC
  3. Vessel Single-binary deployment manager for Linux VPS machines Go · SQLite · Docker · nginx · systemd
  4. Forge Self-hosted Git platform with smart HTTP, SSH transport, orgs and webhooks Go · PostgreSQL · sqlc · SSH
  5. BrainMCP A private knowledge vault served as a remote MCP server from one Worker Workers · D1 FTS5 · R2 · React
  6. CanIStart npm CLI that tells you if a GitHub issue is worth starting. 13 of 13 field-test issues came back STOP. TypeScript · GitHub API · npm

All projects on yashlunawat.com →

03 How a project runs

  1. 01Call

    30 minutes, free. You describe the problem, I ask about constraints.

  2. 02Written scope

    Milestones, each with a deliverable, a date and a fixed price.

  3. 03Build

    Updates on your project page as work lands, with preview links.

  4. 04You approve

    Each milestone is invoiced only after you approve it.

  5. 05Handover

    Code, docs and credentials, all in your accounts.

Your project page

One page, private to you, always current.

Every client gets a page at clients.yashlunawat.com showing:

  • the timeline and the next deadline
  • each milestone's status, with an Approve button when it's ready
  • every update I post, with preview links
  • invoices, payments and what's outstanding
  • a message thread, so decisions don't get lost in chat
clients.yashlunawat.com/p/…
Booking APIin progress
Scope and architectureapproved
API and authapproved
Admin dashboardapprove →
Invoiced ₹79,650Paid ₹23,600
Illustration. The numbers are made up.

04 Ways to work together

Fixed-scope project

A defined build with milestones and a fixed price for each. Most work fits here.

Monthly retainer

A set number of days each month for ongoing features, maintenance and on-call fixes.

Audit

A short, fixed engagement: I review your backend, infra or cloud bill and hand you a written report with the fixes ranked.

Prices are quoted after the first call, once I know the scope.

05 Questions

Who owns the code?

You do. The repository lives in your GitHub organisation and everything deploys to your own cloud accounts from the first day. Nothing is locked to me.

How do payments work?

Each milestone has a price agreed in the written scope. When a milestone is done, you review it and approve it on your project page, and then I send the invoice. You can see every invoice and payment on the same page.

Where are you based?

India, on IST. Calls can be scheduled for European or US hours, and most communication is written, so timezones matter less than you'd think.

Will you sign an NDA?

Yes. Send it over before the first call if you'd like.

What if the scope changes halfway?

We add it as a new milestone with its own price, or swap it for one that hasn't started. The page shows the change, so nobody has to remember what was agreed.

Do you take small jobs?

Yes, if the scope is clear. A one-week fix or a deploy setup is a fine first project.

06 Start a project

Tell me what you're building and where it's stuck. I reply within two working days.

Prefer email? hi@yashlunawat.com

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