From a single food cart in Rosslyn, Virginia to a dozen East-Coast locations with national franchise ambitions — District Taco needed its technology to scale as fast as its brand.
The ChallengeGrowth was outrunning the code
District Taco built its own iOS and Android ordering apps and internal systems in-house. But the codebase had gone unmaintained — difficult to understand and hard to keep alive. Code was scattered across services, and in at least one case lived only on a former developer's laptop.
Routine work cracked. Something as simple as onboarding a new employee could take days, and mounting technical debt was actively holding back the company's expansion.
The SolutionAn X-Team strike crew for the platform
- Automation pipelines on Google App Engine to replace manual, multi-day processes
- GitHub version control — consolidating code that had been scattered across machines
- A custom GitBook documentation repository so knowledge no longer walked out the door
- New back-end & APIs built for scale
- Cloud migration onto Kubernetes infrastructure for scale and accessibility
- Process modernization — moving the team from GitHub Issues to Jira
Automated processes reduced critical task timelines from days to mere hours.The District Taco Engagement — X-Team
The ResultsA platform built to franchise
Automation cut critical task timelines from days to hours. Centralized code and documentation ended the retrieval headaches, and the new cloud infrastructure made the platform scalable and accessible — positioning District Taco as a genuinely franchisable brand, ready for national expansion.
The stack behind the build
Backend & APIs
- FastAPI
- REST APIs
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Google App Engine
- Kubernetes
- Containerization
- CI/CD
Tooling & Process
- GitHub
- GitBook
- Jira
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