If you're using Postgres and want to get something done today, use PostgREST:

https://postgrest.com/en/v4.4/

It is the fastest, leanest, and most powerful way to interface to postgres with an API.

I've been using Python for 25 years an can tell you with certainty that Django is a slow, leaky, autocommit-infested, memory hogging pile of crap with a degenerate half-ORM that cannot model even the simplest aggregates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxL9MnWlCwo

Learn SQL and do it right.