The people behind Swiide
Three people, three jobs — building the product, shaping how it looks and reads, and getting real local vehicles into the plan.
Founder & Technical Architect
The technical mind behind Swiide, Puneet designed the platform's backend and routing systems and turned the idea into a working travel product. He is also the primary traveller behind Swiide, exploring lesser-known corners of Odisha beyond its popular destinations. His vision is simple: make independent travel easier by giving people the tools to discover and plan trips on their own.
More about Puneet
Puneet is the founder and the technical mind behind Swiide. He designed the backend architecture that powers the platform, including its routing and trip-planning systems, and turned the original concept into a working product. His engineering background spans full-stack development, AI systems, scalable backends, and cloud-native applications.
Beyond the technology, Puneet is the primary traveller behind Swiide. He explores Odisha firsthand, with a particular focus on places that are less known and often overlooked beyond the state's popular tourist destinations — helping Swiide go beyond the usual tourist lists.
His vision for Swiide is to make independent travel easier and more accessible — giving people the tools and confidence to explore on their own rather than depending entirely on packaged tours or rigid travel plans.
Design, Frontend & Content Lead
Monalisha shapes how Swiide looks, works, and communicates. She leads the website's design and frontend development while also working across SEO, content, and product ideation. Her focus is turning Swiide's local knowledge into an experience that helps travelers discover more, understand their options, and plan trips on their own terms.
More about Monalisha
Monalisha leads the visual and content experience of Swiide, shaping how the product looks, feels, and communicates with travelers. She's responsible for the website's UI/UX design and frontend implementation, and her background also includes backend development and API integration.
She also works on the site's SEO, content structure, and page-level content, ensuring Swiide is not only visually engaging but useful and discoverable. Her work extends into product ideation, shaping how Swiide presents destinations and turns travel information into a clearer experience for independent travelers.
At Swiide, Monalisha focuses on making the product feel approachable while keeping the information useful and actionable — giving travelers the knowledge and confidence to make their own decisions rather than handing them a rigid trip.
Brand & Partnerships Lead
Priyankar helped shape Swiide from the outside in — from designing its logo and brand identity to building connections with the local rental services that help travelers move independently. A travel enthusiast himself, he also contributes firsthand perspective and destination knowledge to Swiide's growing collection of Odisha travel content.
More about Priyankar
Priyankar plays a key role in shaping Swiide's identity and building the network that makes independent travel possible. He designed the brand's logo and visual identity, helping establish the visual language travelers associate with Swiide.
He also works on building relationships with local rental services, helping Swiide connect travelers with the vehicles they need to explore on their own — supporting Swiide's focus on movement as part of the trip, not a separate problem.
Priyankar is also a travel enthusiast who contributes firsthand perspective to Swiide's destination content, helping document what makes different places across Odisha worth exploring.
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