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365 Days of Stories – Day 17: When Customer Leader Priorities Clash with CEO Directives
Now that I had merged the Development & Maintenance teams, I thought the last challenge was resolving billing issues and aligning...
Partha Sarthi
Mar 32 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 16: Restructuring Teams & Aligning Priorities in a Crisis
Continuing from Day 15, where the CEO put payments on hold due to delays in high-priority projects, and I made the tough call to let go...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 282 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 15: When Tough Decisions Had to Be Made
This story is from an enterprise account where we were managing the entire suite of applications, handling both development and support....
Partha Sarthi
Feb 262 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 14: Turning Performance Challenges into a Competitive Advantage
During the process automation engagement, our team consisted of 20+ members, including both senior and junior engineers, alongside...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 262 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 13: Turning Around a High-Stakes Automation Project
Though I had decided to go back to a job, I knew my mission to solve traffic problems wasn’t over. I told myself—I’ll return to it when...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 252 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 12: The Coding Marathon & The Harsh Reality of Entrepreneurship
With design and core algorithms in place, I started coding on 30th Oct 2015. For the next 3 months, I worked day and night, and by 31st...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 222 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 11: Cracking the Ride Request Search Algorithm – Finding Requests for a Ride
After solving how to find a ride for a ride request, I realized that finding ride requests for a planned ride was a much harder problem....
Partha Sarthi
Feb 212 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 10: Cracking the Ride Search Algorithm – Matching Ride Requests to Rides
Once I structured rides as a graph network, the next step was solving the ride search problem—how do we efficiently find matching rides...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 203 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 8: The Evolution of Ride Matching – From Basic Geometry to Real-World Roads
Defining the Problem: What Is a Ride and a Ride Request? Before solving the problem, I needed to define two key concepts: ✔ Ride – A car...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 192 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 7: From Learning to Building – The Start of Product Development
With the core foundation in place, it was time for product development. Since this was a high-volume system, I knew scalability had to be...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 182 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 6: Relearning to Code – Starting from Scratch
I had made up my mind— 🚫 No more hunting for a CTO. 🚫 No more hiring freshers. 🚫 No more job hunting. 👉 I would develop my product...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 162 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 5: The "Company" That Didn’t Exist
By now, I had accepted that finding a Cofounder & CTO was going to be difficult. No one from my network was ready to leave their stable,...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 152 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 4: The Shift from Tech to Business & The Search for a CTO
By this point, I had my problem statement and solution figured out—solving traffic congestion through a trust-based carpooling system....
Partha Sarthi
Feb 152 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 3: Cracking the Code for Carpooling
With my business idea finalized during my notice period—solving traffic congestion—the next challenge was: 💡 How do we solve it? The...
Partha Sarthi
Feb 152 min read
365 Days of Stories – Day 2: How I Decided to Solve Traffic Congestion
When I resigned in April 2015, I had no idea what business to start—only that I didn’t want a job. That, in itself, was a big discovery....
Partha Sarthi
Feb 152 min read
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