Automated Car Service Booking Platform
An innovative solution designed to revolutionize the way users book repair shop services. The vision of this tech startup was to develop a platform that provides an additional sales channel for repair shops and a convenient repair shop aggregator for customers, enabling them to book services with just a few clicks. My task was to bring this vision to life by designing and building the entire platform from the ground up.
The Challenge
This startup aimed to introduce a unique solution in a market with no existing alternatives. A significant challenge was the absence of a comprehensive spare parts database supporting thousands of car modifications. The system needed to manage real-time pricing for every spare part, requiring integrations with multiple spare part sellers handling millions of articles and their prices in real-time. The platform needed to offer a convenient interface for repair shops to manage their services and set their prices. Price calculation had to be fast to ensure that the user experience felt as seamless as booking a hotel.
Solution
Tech Stack Selection
Selected ASP.NET for backend stability, Angular for a responsive front-end, PostgreSQL for managing large datasets, and Docker for containerized deployments.
Team Building and Mentorship
Assembled a development team consisting of 2 full-stack developers, 1 back-end developer, 1 QA engineer, and 1 designer. Provided ongoing mentorship.
Architecture Setup
Designed a microservice-based architecture that enabled scalability and supported the complex data requirements.
Agile Process
Established an Agile development process with bi-weekly sprints and daily stand-ups, ensuring the project stayed on track and delivered incremental updates.
MVP in 6 Months
Delivered an MVP within 6 months (including an unexpected pivot), allowing users to test core functionalities including service booking and pricing. Completed the full product in 1.5 years.
Results
Implementation of a microservice architecture
Unified spare parts catalog aggregating 10 supplier inventories
Integration with 10 spare part providers
Development of an instant price calculation engine
Deployment of CI/CD infrastructure
6 web applications: Customer Cabinet, Repair Shop Cabinet, CRM, Spare Part Management, CMS, Public Website
Technologies & Tools
“Very stress-resistant, always even-tempered, responsive - perfect fit for a rapidly evolving and uncertain startup environment. He is a real pro.”
“Michael was a Chief Software Developer at an e-commerce startup YEZ developing a multifaceted platform from scratch. As our product engineering lead he was architecting the entire tech platform staying at the same time 100% hands-on since the team at that time used to be very small. We worked closely on multiple tasks and Michael turned out to be not only a diligent full-stack software engineer with strong background and consistent track record, but a very nice guy to communicate with both during work and off the clock. Very stress-resistant, always even-tempered, responsive - perfect fit for a rapidly evolving and uncertain startup environment. Would highly recommend Michael for every team trying to tackle difficult and challenging task. He is a real pro.”
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