Himanshu Shankar

DRF User is a Django app that overrides the default user app to provide additional attributes and functionalities. It's easy and quick to integrate, with entire integration taking less than five minutes and less than ten logical lines of code required to be added in a Django project.

101Lease is a rental marketplace dedicated to making a hassle-free rental experience for both property owners and seekers. It empowers them with tools and knowledge to help make the right decisions. To the business owners, 101Lease provides an end-to-end single-point platform for asset management, rental collection, client and broker aggregation, deal aggregation, lead management, company and team management, and even provides key analytics about locations.
On the tech front, 101Lease is an end-to-end asset management product built using various plug-n-playable modules. The modules include the lead management module, company hierarchy module, asset management module, and many more real estate-related industry modules. The modularity allows the customization of a product with minimal engineering effort.

In total, we produced four spin-offs from the product. We customized one for the hospitality industry but chose to focus the other three on asset management and rental aggregation. In one case scenario, the business achieved an 80% reduction in lead management team size and a 120% increase in revenue in just the first quarter of deployment.

Sweet2th is a hyperlocal marketplace for the bakery industry in India. The product allows all players in a bakery marketplace to interact with counterparties. For instance, a consumer can order products from bakers, and a baker can connect with vendors for items, delivery partners can provide delivery services, and so on. The product has a generic system to represent all relationships, implement configurable controls on the marketplace, and dynamically configure payout and commission structures.

I led the entire product team for its implementation. This involved a Django-based back end, Flutter-based mobile application for vendor, consumer, and delivery partners, and React-based web applications (for vendor, consumer, and live management portal). The engineering team size was eight people, and product development spanned for 1-year.

The biggest engineering challenge in the product was to build a generic product that represents all these relationships and to provide configurable control to marketplace executives to configure payout structures. In the back end, grievances, rating, performance monitoring (delivery timing), and orders were some metrics used to dynamically control payout and commission structure.