Invygo
Overview
Established in 2018 and headquartered in Dubai, Invygo is the first car subscription start-up in the MENA region. I first joined the project in the idea phase and took the challenge to build the first viable product in just 1 month.
- Website: https://www.invygo.com/
- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/invygo-car-rental-made-easy/id1445676307
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.invygo.customer&hl=en&gl=US
Role
As a freelance technical architect, I worked on the project from idea to the first visible product with one in-house developer in just 1 month, and we got the first customer in just 1 week after. I worked for Invygo for 2 years.
My primary responsibilities were managing the mobile application, enhancing the backend architecture, and contributing the technical solution to scale our system. I also support building the backbone for data analytics and marketing automation system based on adjust, mixpanel, customer.io, and in-house data in MongoDB.
Besides that, I also contributed product ideas to improve business growth.
Outstanding numbers during my time
- From idea to minimum viable product in just 1 month (with online payment gateway as well).
- Raised more than $2M in funding and going to get the Series A.
- Top 15 travel apps in UAE.
- Has more than 50k users.
- Expanded to Saudi Arabia and going to expand more.
Outstanding solutions and technologies
- In-house Referral system
- Mobile OCR with ML Kit
- Online payment with Checkout
- Data analytics and marketing automation system with adjust, mixpanel, customer.io, and in-house data in MongoDB
- Event-driven architecture With RabbitMQ
- Micro-services with gRPC protocol
- The backend was built by hapijs and uses MongoDB for the main database
- The cross-platform mobile app with React Native
- Mobile A/B Testing and Feature Flag with Firebase
- CI/CD with fastlane, Bitrise for mobile and Jenkins for backend, web front-end
- Automation testing with Selenium, Appium
- System monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana
- Mobile monitoring with Bugsnag and Firebase Crashlytics
- And more features such as Maps, Places API, Push Notification, Deep linking, etc