About TapToTravel
Meet the visionary behind India's first NFC-powered smart mobility platform
🇮🇳 Our Mission
Founded in India, TapToTravel is built to solve real-world public transport challenges such as cash handling, fare disputes, lack of transparency, and the absence of digital records. We're on a mission to modernize India's massive public transit network — from auto rickshaws in tier-3 cities to government buses in smart cities.
of rides are cash-only today
digital records for passengers
daily fare disputes in India
smart cities need this
Smart Cities Vision
Aligned with India's Smart Cities Mission, we're bringing digital-first transit to 100+ cities. NFC boarding, GPS tracking, and digital payments — the future is here.
Environmental Impact
By promoting shared rides and tracking carbon footprint, TapToTravel encourages sustainable mobility. Every ride tracked contributes to a greener India.
Digital India Push
Supporting Government's Digital India initiative by bringing transparency to the unorganized transit sector. Every transaction tracked, every fare recorded.
Avinash Kumar
Founder & Chief Architect
Hardware + AI + Cloud + Mobile + Product
Avinash Kumar is a new-generation innovator who builds technology ecosystems end-to-end — from hardware circuits to intelligent cloud systems to beautifully engineered mobile applications. As the solo founder of TapToTravel, he has architected and developed a fully integrated transit platform that merges NFC hardware, real-time GPS analytics, AI-driven insights, and a highly optimized passenger–driver mobile experience.
His work spans five engineering domains that rarely exist in a single individual:
🛠️ Engineering Domains
- Embedded Systems & Firmware: ESP32/PN532-based NFC boarding device, GPS pipeline, offline buffer engine, hardware-cloud sync architecture.
- Cloud & Backend Engineering: Node.js, Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Functions), secure fare engine, ride lifecycle logic, payment orchestration.
- Mobile App Development (Flutter): Real-time map rendering, driver dashboard, passenger UX flows, multilingual UI, advanced animations.
- AI / ML Integration: Vira AI assistant, contextual travel intelligence, smart route scoring, voice interaction, fraud detection logic.
- Product Strategy & System Design: End-to-end transit workflow design, reliability engineering, offline-first architecture, safety & compliance mechanisms.
🧠 The Founder’s Mindset
Avinash builds technology with a founder’s mindset — clear vision, deep technical understanding, and ruthless execution. TapToTravel’s architecture reflects professional-grade design: a stable GPS-driven fare engine handled by the driver app, automatic boarding via NFC/QR, real-time syncing to Firestore, and a patentable offline recovery mechanism that ensures data integrity even without network coverage.
What makes Avinash rare is not just his skillset — it’s his ability to think like an engineer, execute like a developer, and decide like a founder. He brings clarity to complex systems, making them scalable, production-ready, and aligned with real-world user behavior.
👁️ Vision
With TapToTravel, Avinash aims to modernize public transit at scale by making it frictionless, transparent, and smart, especially for emerging cities where reliability and automation are critical.