Kousic Thavva ⁽⁴⁾

A lightweight, self-hosted API rate limiting reverse proxy. OpenWard sits between your clients and upstream APIs, enforcing configurable rate limits before forwarding requests. Built in Go, OpenWard is designed around a simple philosophy: If you'd like to explore the project in more detail, please visit…

In late November 2025, my friend Asrith Tanniru and I started working on DroveOn. As a freelance founding engineer, I was responsible for designing and developing the platform from scratch. DroveOn is a ride-hailing platform with passenger and driver mobile applications, an admin dashboard, real-time…

KeyStore has been running in production for about a year now, storing thousands of property images for a real estate client's portfolio. It hasn't missed a beat. Repository link: https://github.com/ReddyKousic/KeyStore I had been using MinIO Community Edition for client projects for a while because it was…

Before building this, we looked into how ride-sharing and dispatch systems usually solve nearby driver search. Most rely on tools like Tile38, or combine PostGIS with spatial indexing libraries like Uber's H3, which are great, but not exactly lightweight for our setup. Given our time…