Wajid Rashid

Work

TicketForge

Nov 2026

An open-source ticketing platform for gigs, comedy, talks and sport. Fans pick seats on a live map, hold them for 10 minutes while they pay, and get PDF tickets with signed QR codes that scan once at the door. Organizers get a dashboard with revenue, check-ins and live sales.

• Django
• FastAPI
• MySQL
• WebSockets
• Celery
• 241 tests, 92% coverage

How it works, with the code →Live demo ↗Code ↗

PakBites database

Feb 2026

The database for PakBites, a practice food-delivery business with restaurants in several Pakistani cities: customers, menus, orders, delivery riders and reviews.

• MySQL 8
• 10 tables
• 5 views
• 6 triggers
• 3 functions
• 2 scheduled events

How it works, with the SQL →Code ↗57 commits, 6 – 12 Feb 2026 ↗

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
TARGET_DIR="${1:-}"
if [[ -z "$TARGET_DIR" ]]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 <folder_to_backup>"
    exit 1
fi
if [[ ! -d "$TARGET_DIR" ]]; then
    echo "Error: Directory '$TARGET_DIR' does not exist."
    exit 2
fi
BACKUP_DIR="$HOME/backups"
mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR"
TIMESTAMP=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
BACKUP_FILE="$BACKUP_DIR/backup_$TIMESTAMP.tar.gz"
tar -czf "$BACKUP_FILE" -C "$(dirname "$TARGET_DIR")" "$(basename "$TARGET_DIR")"
cleanup_old_backups() {
    mapfile -t backups < <(find "$BACKUP_DIR" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "backup_*.tar.gz" | sort -r)
    if (( ${#backups[@]} > 5 )); then
        rm -f "${backups[@]:5}"
    fi
}

cleanup_old_backups

BACKUP_SIZE=$(du -h "$BACKUP_FILE" | cut -f1)
echo "Backup complete: $BACKUP_FILE ($BACKUP_SIZE)"

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

TEST_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
echo "test" > "$TEST_DIR/sample.txt"

OUTPUT=$(./backup.sh "$TEST_DIR")
echo "$OUTPUT"

CREATED_FILE=$(echo "$OUTPUT" | awk '{print $3}')

if [[ -f "$CREATED_FILE" ]]; then
    echo "Test passed: $CREATED_FILE was created."
else
    echo "Test failed: Backup file not found."
    rm -rf "$TEST_DIR"
    exit 1
fi

rm -rf "$TEST_DIR"

cut -d ' ' -f 5 system.log | cut -d '[' -f 1 | cut -d ':' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 10

Learning log

I'm working through a study plan of 143 hands-on tasks, from the terminal to APIs, databases and deployment. I started on 3 November 2026.

Now Practise branches, conflicts and fixing mistakes in Git

1. 6 NovWrite Bash scripts that do real work shell-practice ↗
2. 6 NovFind anything with pipes and grep shell-practice ↗
3. 5 NovPut your first project on GitHub dev-setup ↗
4. 4 NovSet up Anki and learn how to remember what you learn
5. 3 NovLearn to move around in the terminal

Tools I've used

Python

Django and Django REST Framework, FastAPI with SQLAlchemy and Alembic, Celery jobs, WebSockets with Django Channels. (TicketForge)

Testing

pytest against real MySQL and Redis, a 50-thread race test, a Hypothesis property test, Locust load tests, ruff and mypy in CI. (TicketForge)

Docker and deployment

Docker Compose for the whole stack, nginx with TLS and rate limits, GitHub Actions, and a live deploy on a VPS with Dokploy. (TicketForge)

SQL and MySQL 8

Tables with foreign keys, CHECK and UNIQUE rules, joins, subqueries, grouping, views, functions, triggers and scheduled events. Conditional updates and row locks so two buyers cannot get the same seat. (PakBites, TicketForge)

Bash

Pipes, grep, cut, sort and uniq, find, tar, and scripts that check their input and stop on errors. (shell-practice)

Git and GitHub

Branches, issues, pull requests and fixing a merge conflict. (PakBites, shell-practice, TicketForge)

Linux (Ubuntu)

My daily system. journalctl, ps and kill, file permissions. (shell-practice)

Up next

Python by doing, from my study plan.

Contact

I'm looking for remote work. Email me at i.wajidrashid18@gmail.com, or see my code on GitHub. My CV is here (PDF).