🚕 Taxi Arab – Laravel Backend Contributions

💼 This is a work showcase repo for my contributions as a backend developer on a real ride-hailing app built with Laravel.

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🧠 About the App

Taxi Arab is a live ride-hailing app similar to Uber, operating in Jordan 🇯🇴 with real users, real drivers, and real-time orders.

It has separate mobile apps for customers and drivers, and the backend is a Laravel system I worked on extensively to improve its core logic, scalability, and reliability.

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🧑‍💻 My Role

• Position: Backend Developer (Laravel)
• Period: Jan 2025 – Present
• Team:
  • Myself (Laravel backend)
  • Ali (iOS developer)
  • Kareem (Android developer)

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🚀 What I Did

✅ Rebuilt the Ride Invitation Logic

• Switched from 1-by-1 to 3-by-3 batch invitations
• Made retry count dynamic using a DB MAX_RETRY_COUNT setting
• Auto-expired pending invites once ride was accepted or maxed out

✅ Queues & Job Optimization

• Used Redis queue with Laravel Horizon
• Prevented duplicate jobs, added immediate cancel logic
• Refactored SearchForDriverJob & improved job scheduling

✅ Driver Presence & Status

• Implemented online/offline system for drivers
• Integrated token-based presence tracking
• Dynamically filtered offline drivers from ride invitations

✅ Admin Dashboard Features

• Real-time stats & metrics for active rides/drivers
• Exported driver phone numbers to Excel
• Added ride filters based on acceptance_status

✅ Safe Production Deployment

• Performed live debugging with info() logs
• Deployed at midnight only to avoid disrupting real users
• Rolled out ride cycle refactors without any downtime

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📸 Screenshots

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📊 Real-Time System

• Built with Pusher for instant socket communication
• Drivers and customers receive status updates in real time
• Laravel backend manages socket channel joins, events & logging

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✅ Results

• 🚗 Ride cycle now works with full stability under load
• 📉 Reduced failure rate of unassigned rides
• 🚀 Queues cleared cleanly & workers optimized
• 📊 Dashboard is more insightful & useful to ops team

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🏗 Tech Stack

Layer	Tech
Backend	Laravel (PHP 8.x), MySQL
Queues	Redis, Laravel Horizon
Real-time	Pusher
Auth	Laravel Sanctum
Logs	Laravel Logs, info(), Horizon
Mobile	iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin)

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📂 Docs

• docs/ride-cycle.md: Ride invitation flow breakdown (drivers, logic, batching)

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📦 Repo Purpose

This repo is a showcase only.
I was responsible for improving core backend logic on a real app for a real client while employed at Dinamo Egypt.
No source code is shared due to ownership policies.

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💬 Let’s Talk

Want to dive into how I implemented 3-by-3 invitation logic? Or how we scaled the ride cycle using Redis queues?
Feel free to DM or ask me in interviews — happy to share insights 🙌