Logistics & transport
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LadeTrans
Truck route management for a humanitarian aid organisation
CDH Stephanus02/2021 – 05/2023 · ~2 yrs 4 mos · ongoing maintenance (side project) · Sole developer · full-stack & AI
Role
Sole developer · full-stack & AI
Team
Solo · client project
Location
Bremen, DE · remote
Language
German
Website
Methodology
Self-directed
Responsibilities
- Loading lists per trip: goods to be shipped, recipient addresses and drivers assembled in a single case.
- Every trip as one continuous case — create, edit, close and archive.
- Automated generation of the route documents from the captured data, among other things for border checks.
- Audit-proof archiving of completed trips including the proofs uploaded at the end of each trip.
- Sole responsibility for the backend architecture (NestJS, clean architecture), role-based access control (better-auth) and the self-hosted deployment including ongoing maintenance (side project).
- Automated delivery of the self-hosted environment: CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions), containerised build (Docker) behind Nginx as a reverse proxy, quality checks before every commit (Husky).
Outcome
- According to the client, automated document processes save up to 1,000 hours per employee per year in trip handling — the route documents, previously assembled by hand for every trip, have since been generated from the captured data.
- According to the client, up to 30 % higher logistics efficiency thanks to end-to-end management of the shipping trips.
- Markedly fewer transcription errors; every trip is archived audit-proof together with its documents and proofs.
- In continuous use for the aid transports since 2021 — self-hosted, with automated delivery and ongoing maintenance from one source.
Technologies
TypeScriptJavaScriptSQLHTMLCSSXMLJSONYAMLNode.jsNestJSFastifyDependency InjectionNext.jsReactServer-Side Rendering (SSR)React RouterSingle Page Application (SPA)Tailwind CSSStorybookREST APIGraphQLBackend developmentFrontend developmentWeb developmentPostgreSQLRedisCachingMikroORMTypeORMData modellingLogisticsRoute planningOrder managementDocument managementPDF generationDOCX generationDigital archivingProcess digitalisationDigital transformationPlatform migrationSystem integrationbetter-authJWTAuthenticationRole-Based Access Control (RBAC)IT securityDockerDocker ComposeDigital OceanSelf-HostingLinuxUbuntuNginxMonitoringObservabilityCI/CDContinuous IntegrationGitHub ActionsHuskynpmCLI (Command Line Interface)Unit TestingTest automationClaude CodeCursor AIModel Context Protocol (MCP)Agentic CodingAgentic pull request workflowsMonorepoNxSlackMicroservicesDomain-Driven DesignScalable architectureClean CodeSOLIDClean ArchitectureRequirements EngineeringIT consultingSoftware developmentProduct ownershipInterface developmentRequirements analysis