Headline

Building Software Infrastructure That Replaces Physical Taxi Meters | Co-Founder & COO @ Towner | DeepTech · RegTech · Public Mobility Infrastructure | Building for BHARAT

About

Every city in the world regulates taxi fares. Almost none of them have modernized how those fares are actually computed, logged, or audited. That gap is what I'm building on. The problem: The global taxi ecosystem runs on physical hardware meters — devices that are expensive to certify, difficult to maintain, prone to tampering, and completely incapable of adapting to the multi-city, multi-tariff regulatory environments that modern mobility demands. Regulators want digitization. Fleet operators want reliability and compliance coverage. Passengers deserve transparent, tamper-proof fare records. And governments need audit-grade data to enforce their own tariff structures. No one had engineered the infrastructure layer to connect all of these — until now. Towner is not a ride-hailing marketplace. It's not an aggregator. It's not an app. It is a software-defined, GPS-driven digital metering engine — purpose-built to replace the physical taxi meter with infrastructure that governments can certify, operators can deploy, and passengers can trust. The platform combines: → Algorithmic fare computation aligned to official government tariff structures → Tamper-resistant digital trip logging with full audit trails → Compliance-aware geospatial processing for real-world route and fare accuracy → Offline-first architecture for low-connectivity operating environments → Cloud-native, multi-city deployment infrastructure built for regulatory variance across jurisdictions This is the kind of engineering problem that sits at the intersection of geospatial systems, regulatory logic, distributed computing, and public infrastructure digitization — and it requires solving all of them simultaneously, at production grade. As Co-Founder and COO, I focus on the part of DeepTech that rarely gets discussed — commercialization architecture. Building the system is one challenge. Making it deployable across cities with different governments, different tariff tables, different enforcement regimes, and different levels of digital readiness is an entirely different one. My work sits at that intersection: technology-to-market strategy, ecosystem and regulatory partnerships, operational scale design, and building the kind of defensible IP that only comes from solving real compliance problems inside real public systems.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Chief Operating Officer at Towner Solutions Pvt Ltd, Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Co-Founder at RST Booking Pvt Ltd, Jun 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, SaaS technology platform for taxi drivers empowering them to be business owners and earn more than ever earlier.

Project Co-Ordinator at RAY International Group, Oct 2016 - Mar 2022 · 5 yrs 6 mos, Masqaţ, Oman, Successfully executed below project: 1. Wadi Bani Auf - 132 kV Substation & 88 Kms OHL - $ 5 Mn 2. Airport Control Centre - $0.8 Mn 3. ROP Hospital Substation - $2 Mn 4. 33kV Substation at BAM & SUMAIL - $3.5 Mn

Project Engineer at Petrofac, Dec 2012 - Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Successfully executed below mentioned projects: 1. Laggan Tormore - $3.8 Bn 2. BP (British Petroleum) Khazzan - $1.8 Bn

Education

Master's degree, Civil Engineering, University of Connecticut

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Civil Engineering, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)