Ashish Gupta

Patiala, 2021

From the floor
to the product

Years on the US trucking floor — tracking loads, leading a dispatch team — and now shaping a TMS a US carrier uses live.

BBA, Multani Mal Modi College — the walk out, 2021

Scroll to follow the road

Stop 1

Teleperformance

Customer Executive

Feb – Sep 2021

  • Customer support — my first role working directly with customers.

Inside: Feb 2021

Stop 2

Sigea Solutions

Dispatch Executive

Feb – Nov 2022, full-time

  • Tracked and traced US long-haul loads, mainly for Freon Logistics in Bakersfield, California.
  • Additional tracking for LDH Xpress Inc. and Quad Trans Inc.
  • Took on dispatch responsibilities alongside tracking.

Stop 3

Quality Enterprise

Dispatch Executive

Nov 2022 – Aug 2023, Patiala

  • Managed customer email communication for FBT Inc., Laut Transportation Inc. and Harrison Transportation Inc.
  • Answered shipment queries and sent load-status updates.
  • Coordinated with the tracking and dispatch teams to keep driver and load information current.

Stop 4

AlphaOne Logistics

Dispatch Team Lead

Sep 2023 – Sep 2024, Patiala

  • Assigned the daily work for the team supporting Mann Trans Inc. and resolved operational issues.
  • Interviewed candidates and trained new team members.
  • Helped set up a new office in Patiala.

After every shift: learning to code — HTML, CSS and JavaScript, then Node.js and databases.

Stop 5, today

Waris Infotech

Product Owner, TMS

Oct 2024 – Present

  • Formed the founding four-person product team.
  • Turn carrier operations into requirements and screen designs.
  • Test every feature and turn live feedback from a US carrier into the next change.

Every road I took led here.

The full route

Five stops. One direction.

Customer support, then US trucking operations, then the product side of logistics software. Each stop added a layer of how freight actually moves — and what the people moving it need from their tools.

Oct 2024 – Present, Patiala

Product Owner, TMS

Waris Infotech, founding team

  • Formed the founding four-person product team by recruiting three developers with logistics software experience.
  • Translate carrier operations into requirements in weekly sessions with the owner and the lead developer.
  • Design the application's screens with AI-assisted mockups, as the team has no dedicated designer, and build some frontend screens myself against the backend APIs, with code reviewed by the frontend developer.
  • Test each feature against the agreed behaviour, keep the owner updated, and turn feedback and bug reports from the carrier using the app into the next round of work.
  • Set up and run the office: facilities, IT assets, attendance and leave.

Sep 2023 – Sep 2024, Patiala

Dispatch Team Lead

AlphaOne Logistics

  • Assigned the daily work for the team supporting Mann Trans Inc. and resolved operational issues and team queries.
  • Interviewed candidates and trained new team members on their responsibilities and daily processes.
  • Helped establish a new Patiala office, from finding the premises to preparing the space for operations.

Nov 2022 – Aug 2023, Patiala

Dispatch Executive

Quality Enterprise

  • Managed customer email communication for FBT Inc., Laut Transportation Inc. and Harrison Transportation Inc., answering shipment queries and sending load-status updates.
  • Coordinated with the tracking and dispatch teams to keep driver and load information current and accurate.

Feb – Nov 2022, full-time

Dispatch Executive

Sigea Solutions

  • Tracked and traced US long-haul loads, primarily for Freon Logistics in Bakersfield, California, with additional tracking for LDH Xpress Inc. and Quad Trans Inc.
  • Took on additional dispatch responsibilities alongside tracking.

Feb – Sep 2021

Customer Executive

Teleperformance

  • Handled customer support — my first role working directly with customers.

Company names identify past employers and the carriers I supported. They do not imply endorsement.

Case studies from the TMS at Waris Infotech

How the product gets made.

The TMS is private, so these are written without screens or customer data.

Designing without a designer

The situation
A four-person team with no designer. Features were built from verbal descriptions, then reworked once people saw them.
What I did
I drew on my years on the dispatch floor to explain how trackers and dispatchers actually work. With AI-assisted tools I turn those discussions into mockups before code is written, and I build some of the screens myself from those mockups, using APIs from the backend developer and with my code reviewed by the frontend developer.
What changed
Design discussions start from a concrete screen instead of a description, and the frontend developer can start from working code.

Closing the loop with a live carrier

The situation
The owner is based in the US and has 30 to 60 minutes a week for the product. His carrier company uses the application live.
What I do
In the weekly session with the owner and the lead developer we decide what to build. I then test each finished feature against what we agreed, report the changes back, and collect feedback and bug reports from the carrier's team.
Why it works
The people using the product do the job I used to do, so I can tell a cosmetic request from one that costs a dispatcher time on every load.

Building the team from zero

The situation
The TMS project began with no team and no office.
What I did
I built the team: three developers with logistics software experience joined. Then I set up the office, and I still run it.
The result
A team with logistics exposure from day one, which made it far easier to explain how the product should work.

Projects

Built on my own time.

Backend learning project

Event Management System

A backend for event organisers and attendees: REST APIs for authentication, role-based access, attendee registration and ticketing, with relational data models, migrations, validation, error handling and logging.

TypeScript, Express, TypeORM, PostgreSQL, JWT

View the code on GitHub ↗

In progress

Trucking operations concepts

Original screens for problems I know from the dispatch floor, designed and built by me with made-up data — design work you can click through, with no NDA in the way.

Design and frontend

Skills & education

What I bring.

Product & design

  • Turning operations into requirements
  • Screen design with AI-assisted mockups
  • Building frontend screens from my designs
  • Feature testing against requirements
  • Owner updates and user feedback loops

US trucking operations

  • OTR tracking and tracing
  • Customer and load-status communication
  • Dispatch team leadership
  • Hiring and training
  • Setting up and running an office

Technical

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • TypeORM
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Git & GitHub
  • JIRA

Education

  • Bachelor of Business Administration
    Multani Mal Modi College, Patiala, 2021
  • Higher Secondary, PCM
    Veer Haqiqat Rai M. Sen. Sec. School, 2018

Contact

Let's talk.

Based in Patiala, Punjab, India. Email is the quickest way to reach me.