What a strong Django specialist actually knows
Django gives you an admin, an ORM, authentication and migrations on day one, and a good developer uses all of it before writing custom code. They design models carefully, avoid N+1 queries with select_related and prefetch_related, and know when a raw query or a database view is the honest answer.
For APIs they reach for Django REST Framework or Django Ninja, add pagination and throttling, and keep business rules in services rather than views. Async support, Celery workers and Redis caching round out what production work needs.
