Ordering Platform for Restaurants
Designed the architecture and led the development of a full-stack order management platform for the food service industry, supporting restaurant tables and food trucks through QR codes, online payments, and real-time status updates. I owned the system end-to-end, including backend architecture, API design, payment integrations, and real-time communication, and later coordinated a team of four covering backend, frontend, and QA. The platform has already been validated in operation across two food service venues, including a multi-POS environment serving around 100 customers per day.
Challenge
The main challenge was designing a platform reliable enough for real restaurant operations, where responsiveness, real-time communication, and operational clarity directly affect service quality. The system had to combine ordering flows, payment integrations, live order updates, and communication between multiple technical layers into one coherent product that could keep evolving as the project expanded. As the platform grew, the original customer-facing application also became a bottleneck for further development, which made a frontend rewrite necessary to support long-term maintainability and faster delivery.
Solution
I designed the platform architecture and implemented its core technical foundations: a PHP API, Node.js with Socket.IO for real-time events, Redis for inter-service communication, and payment integrations. To improve long-term maintainability, I started rewriting the customer-facing application from vanilla JavaScript to React, with clearer state boundaries and a more structured architecture.
Results
The platform was validated in real operating conditions in two restaurants. One handled around 50 to 60 guests during an evening service, while the other served around 100 daily visitors across three POS points under a shared menu: grill, food truck, and restaurant. This confirmed that the full ordering flow works in production conditions and gave the product a solid base for further growth.