I'm Building a Unified Freight Platform at My Part-Time Job, and the Architecture Is Genuinely Interesting

A part-time Pricing and Tech Associate is building a unified freight platform and customer dashboard for a freight forwarding company.

The hardest challenge is integrating vendors like UPS and FedEx, each with different APIs and workflows.

The planned fix is a typed TypeScript adapter layer with canonical request and response models to normalize vendor APIs.

The first rollout will expose shipment tracking first, then expand toward rate comparison and automated bookings.