The company
Allstate is one of the largest insurance corporations in the United States — Fortune 100, tens of millions of customers, and the engineering scale to match. Getting contracted here means operating at a level where code quality, reliability, and ownership are non-negotiable.
The project
Avail was Allstate's bet on the future of mobility: a peer-to-peer car sharing platform that lets you rent out your car while you're traveling. Think Airbnb for vehicles, backed by Allstate's insurance infrastructure and built with a team of engineers from MIT.
What I owned
- Full payment process — end-to-end ownership of the payment flow in the React Native app. Transactions, error handling, edge cases, the works. When payments broke, it was my problem to fix.
- Core feature contributions — shipped significant parts of the product used by real customers across the platform, not just peripheral utilities
- MIT-caliber team — worked alongside engineers from MIT, participating in technical discussions at a level that sharpens how you think about engineering problems
- Contractor-level accountability — as a contractor at a company this size, you earn trust by shipping reliably. Two years of it.
Stack
React Native · TypeScript · Payment Integration · Peer-to-Peer Mobility