The latest articles on DEV Community by Donatus Victor (@donatus). https://dev.to/donatus https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4028799%2F1a09f03e-ad3f-495c-876e-5507ac77bd8c.jpg https://dev.to/donatus en Donatus Victor Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:34:38 +0000 https://dev.to/donatus/im-learning-python-backend-development-in-public-39lj https://dev.to/donatus/im-learning-python-backend-development-in-public-39lj <p>Today I'm kicking off a deep dive into Python backend development, and I'm documenting every step of it here on dev.to</p> <p>I'm a data analyst/scientist by background I spend my days building dashboards and ML models. I want to go from someone who can train and evaluate a model to someone who can actually build, secure, and deploy a real backend API. Writing about it publicly keeps me honest, and hopefully it helps other data scientists making the same jump into backend engineering.</p> <p>The plan<br> I'm working through Sanjeev Thiyagarajan's (freeCodeCamp) FastAPI course.</p> <p>How I'll document it<br> Rather than one giant post at the end, I'll be posting short write-ups as I go, what I learned, what confused me, what finally clicked, and small code snippets that explain each concept simply.</p> <p>Follow along<br> If you're learning Python or FastAPI too, I'd love the company, drop a comment and let's keep each other accountable. First real topic drops soon: setting up the environment and writing my first FastAPI route.</p> <p>Let's go. 🚀</p> python programming api machinelearning