Python learner rebuilding from scratch. One project a day. PHP background. Documenting everything publicly.
🧑🏫 CS Instructor & M.Phil Gold Medalist · Senior Subject Expert, Punjab School Education Department 🏫 Founder, Umar Science Academy Chunian 📍 Lahore, Pakistan 💼 7+ years prior freelance experience — PHP, WordPress, AngularJS 🔗 LinkedIn
A second full-stack project, started right after shipping the Educational Platform capstone — going deeper on backend fundamentals: Docker, containerized dev environments, and production-style auth.
Stack: FastAPI · PostgreSQL (Supabase) · SQLAlchemy 2.0 · JWT Auth + RBAC · React (Vite) · Docker & docker-compose
Progress: Day 4 / in progress 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
| Phase | Status |
|---|---|
| Backend + Frontend scaffolding | ✅ Done (Day 1) |
| Dockerfiles + docker-compose orchestration | ✅ Done (Day 1) |
| JWT Authentication (bcrypt, token issuing/validation) | ✅ Done (Day 2) |
| Role-Based Access Control (protected + admin-only routes) | ✅ Done (Day 2) |
| Category & Supplier CRUD (search, pagination, admin-only writes) | ✅ Done (Day 4) |
| Product/Inventory CRUD | ⬜ Next |
| Stock tracking & reporting | ⬜ Planned |
| Deployment | ⬜ Planned |
Latest milestone (Day 4): Built full CRUD for Categories and Suppliers — Pydantic schemas with field constraints and email validation, search + pagination on list endpoints, and admin-only writes reusing the Day 2 RBAC dependency. Caught a duplicate-category-name race condition at the database level via IntegrityError instead of a check-then-insert. Also fixed a Swagger auth quirk mid-build by switching OAuth2PasswordBearer → HTTPBearer to match the JSON-based login flow.
📦 Repo: inventory-management-system
A production-grade capstone project — course creation, enrollment, and AI-assisted learning — live now at usachunian.com.
Stack: FastAPI · PostgreSQL (Supabase) · SQLAlchemy 2.0 · JWT Auth · React · Tailwind CSS · Groq AI (llama-3.3-70b-versatile)
Progress: Day 33 / 33 — Complete 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
| Phase | Status |
|---|---|
| Core Backend (Auth, Courses, Lessons, Enrollment) | ✅ Done |
| AI Lesson Summarizer (Groq) | ✅ Done |
| Testing (28 automated tests, pytest) | ✅ Done |
| React Frontend — Register, Login | ✅ Done |
| React Frontend — Teacher Dashboard | ✅ Done |
| React Frontend — Student Dashboard | ✅ Done |
| UI Polish | ✅ Done |
| PostgreSQL Migration + Env Config | ✅ Done (Day 31) |
| Backend Deploy (Railway) | ✅ Done (Day 32) |
| Frontend Deploy (usachunian.com) | ✅ Done (Day 33) — Live |
Latest milestone (Day 33): Deployed the React frontend and went live at usachunian.com, connected end-to-end to the Railway backend and production Supabase database. CORS locked down to the live domain. Full-stack flow verified in production: register → login → enroll → AI-summarize a lesson, all working on real infrastructure, not localhost.
What's next: AI-generated MCQ quizzes from lesson content, and file upload for notes/PDFs.
📦 Repo: capstone-edu-platform 📝 Full 33-day retrospective
#60DaysOfPython — starting from Python fundamentals, through FastAPI backend development, to a full-stack AI-integrated capstone — and now a second project applying those skills fresh.
- Days 1–10: Python basics & OOP
- Days 11–19: FastAPI core — CRUD, SQLAlchemy, JWT auth, role-based routes, testing, first deployment
- Days 20–30: Capstone build — full backend, AI integration, testing suite, React frontend (Login, Teacher + Student dashboards, UI polish)
- Day 31: PostgreSQL migration (Supabase) + centralized environment config
- Day 32: Backend deployed live to Railway, connected to production Supabase
- Day 33: Frontend deployed → live at usachunian.com 🎉
- Day 1–2 (New Project): Inventory Management System — Docker scaffolding, JWT auth, and RBAC
- Day 3–4 (New Project): Alembic migrations for core inventory tables; Category & Supplier CRUD with validation and search
- inventory-management-system — the current build, above
- capstone-edu-platform — shipped capstone, live at usachunian.com
- developer_journey_2026 — the 90-day return-to-dev roadmap
- student-grade-analyzer → v2 → v3 → v4 — the early Python OOP progression, Day 1 through modular CRUD architecture
Python FastAPI SQLAlchemy PostgreSQL React Tailwind CSS JWT Docker Groq AI Git
Prior stack: PHP WordPress AngularJS
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