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I work on backend systems, real-time applications, and infrastructure.

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Kousic Thavva

Inside DroveOn: Architecture Overview

In late November 2025, my friend Asrith Tanniru and I started working on DroveOn. As a freelance founding engineer, I was responsible for designing and developing the platform from scratch. DroveOn is a ride-hailing platform with passenger and driver mobile applications, an admin dashboard, real-time…

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Kousic Thavva

Nearby Driver Search Using Redis

Before building this, we looked into how ride-sharing and dispatch systems usually solve nearby driver search. Most rely on tools like Tile38, or combine PostGIS with spatial indexing libraries like Uber's H3, which are great, but not exactly lightweight for our setup. Given our time…

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