yousuf.khan
Work / Bykea

Mobility & delivery · Pakistan

Faster responses for a busy everyday platform.

Illustrative ride and delivery interface with a route map and payment panels

The problem

What needed attention

A platform serving rides and deliveries needs responsive services and dependable payments. Slow operations were adding delay to a critical API.

My contribution

The work I delivered

I led the Delivery and Payments squads, working with product managers and engineers on integrations, services, and releases.

  • Used application performance monitoring to identify and remove slow operations.
  • Integrated Bank Alfalah and Checkout.com payment gateways.
  • Built a localization service with support for three languages.
  • Designed database schemas, improved queries, and coordinated production releases.

The outcome

What changed

  • Reduced the time within which 95% of requests to a critical API completed from about 1 second to 200 to 300 milliseconds.
  • Payment integrations handled approximately 500 to 750 transactions per day during the reported period.
  • The wider platform handled approximately 140,000 rides a day and 1,500 requests per second. These figures describe the platform, not an individual project result.

Let's work together

What would you like
your software to do?

Tell me what you're working on, where you're stuck, or what you want to build.

Discuss your project