BharatTruck

BharatTruck is a freight marketplace for Indian shippers, carriers and drivers. The founders brought the vision for scale, cost, legal and tax compliance. As the sole founding engineer I designed, built, hosted and ran every layer of it, from zero to its first paid trip in production in 4 months.

It runs as seven independently deployable microservices behind an API gateway, covering authentication, booking, pricing, payments, fleet, the cargo ledger and live tracking, with a unified web app and an internal operations console on top.

After a monorepo move, deploys had been failing silently for 3 weeks while CI stayed green. I rebuilt the pipeline with post-deploy health probes, then shipped 115 production deploys in 31 days and authored 125 of the first 126 PRs.

Quotes had to cover the real cost of a trip. Flat pricing underpriced fuel by 38%, so I built a 4-layer pricing engine in a day that matches the fleet's own cost model to 0.5% median error. Live truck tracking stays inside Google Maps' free tier with one cached ETA call per trip every 45 seconds, however many people watch.

Before launch I closed 34 review findings in 2 weeks, 11 of them in a single day, including open writes to the pricing tables behind every quote and reset tokens that worked as full logins.

On the resume

Sole Founding Engineer

• Turned the founders' brief on scale, cost, legal and tax compliance into a live freight marketplace for shippers, carriers and drivers, owning every layer from design to hosting, from zero to its first paid trip in 4 months.
• Gave shippers quotes that cover the real cost of a trip, replacing flat pricing that underpriced fuel by 38% with a 4-layer pricing engine, built in one day, that matches the fleet's own cost model to 0.5% median error.
• Restored production delivery after 3 weeks of silent deploy failures by rebuilding CI/CD with health probes, then shipped 115 production deploys in 31 days across 7 microservices, authoring 125 of the first 126 PRs.
• Protected shipper and carrier accounts before launch by closing 34 review findings in 2 weeks, including open writes to the pricing tables behind every quote and reset tokens that worked as full logins.