Achieving Meaningful Milestones with Integrity, Innovation & Pride: My Locus Internship Experience

Author Name: Yashank Dasrapuria

Editor’s Note: At Locus, our culture fuels the innovation and delivery excellence our enterprise clients expect. This intern’s journey offers a firsthand perspective on how our values — commitment, integrity, ambition, pride, and innovation — shape both our people and our technology. Whether you’re exploring a career in logistics technology or evaluating the culture behind our AI-powered platform, Yashank Dasrapuria’s Locus internship experience reveals what it truly means to build solutions for the real world.

As a Product Research Intern for TrackIQ at Locus, I experienced firsthand how a culture of innovation and integrity directly shapes our solutions and customer success. Over the course of three months, I worked on meaningful projects, absorbed essential professional lessons, and built lasting memories with a team that treated me as a colleague from day one.

In this post, I’ll share the highlights of my internship and explain why Locus is an extraordinary place to grow your career — anchored by the core values that drive every product decision and customer interaction.

Locus holds a set of strong values that play a crucial role in how it operates as a company — supporting its vision and shaping its culture. I have anchored my narration around these pillars because they are the driving force behind our inspiration, innovation, accomplishment, and work ethic.

Commitment: How Creating a Sense of Belonging Sets Off a Virtuous Cycle

From day one, the team at Locus makes sure each new recruit feels a sense of belonging and develops an affinity for the people and the culture this organization values. I still remember a couple of days before my onboarding day when I received a huge box filled with goodies and my first work laptop. Although it may seem like a small gesture, it developed my appreciation for this company from the get-go.

Right from my interview with Jyoti to having my HR and IT onboarding sessions with Shweta and Shyam, my one-to-one session with Bindhu, and my first ever off-site (more on this later), everyone made me feel like I belonged. That sense of inclusion instilled a passion for contributing to the best of my abilities.

My life pre-Locus, like for many engineering students, was quite chaotic. I was eager for a clearer direction. After joining Locus, I was fascinated by how many puzzle pieces fit together in a professional setting. It motivated me to be more focused and dedicated to the tasks and stories at hand.

Moreover, it gave me a meaningful direction to channel my energies. Simply put, all these thoughtful gestures developed a genuine sense of commitment to this organization.

Why This Matters for Clients

The same culture that empowers interns and employees at Locus is what allows us to deliver innovative, AI-powered logistics solutions for global enterprises. Our people-first approach translates into customer-first technology. Trusted by 360+ enterprises worldwide, Locus’s commitment to cultivating talent directly fuels the platform innovations relied on by industry leaders. Learn More About Our Culture.

Integrity: How persistence makes all the difference

I still remember how during our global catch up during Value Awards, Piyush explained how integrity means giving one’s best to the task at hand irrespective of the expectations set by any rewards and recognition. He added that It’s by sheer will that one can, irrespective of the number of hours it takes, deliver the best possible solution without any compromise to the given use case.

During my first month at Locus, I was a part of the NodeIQ team where I had to write a Visual Basic (VB) code that would perform data cleaning and data validation operations on a client’s master spreadsheet before getting uploaded onto the platform. The challenge here was to make this code work for millions of data points that are being fed to the platform. Even after numerous iterations, the spreadsheet I was working on would crash for certain operations beyond 10,000 rows. I am still very thankful that my first manager at Locus, Robin, was very patient with me. He always kept encouraging me in the process; trying his best to figure out where I was getting stuck. He always appreciated me for the efforts I was putting in and gave me ample time to work on this project since VB was something I had never worked on before.

Nonetheless, I did not make much headway before I was assigned to the TrackIQ team. During my last week with the NodeIQ team, I attended the global catchup where Piyush spoke on integrity. After getting inspired by his rousing speech, I decided to give it all in the two-three days I had before I made the transition. I was able to crack the problem with an algorithm literally five minutes before my last meeting with Robin where I had to hand over the project. The solution I came up with was able to perform all the required data cleaning and validation on more than a million rows in less than four minutes without compromising the use case.

I feel this to be one of the biggest achievements of my life so far. By working on the problem statement, I understood the importance of not giving up and giving your best shot until the last minute. Parallely, this is what TrackIQ means by focusing on quality i.e. it’s okay to take a day or two extra, but no compromises should be made on its quality. I made sure to follow this practice on all future stories, irrespective of whether they had to be dropped or I had to hand it over to someone else.

Making meaningful changes by being ambitious and proud of it!

On my first day at TrackIQ, I remember Vivek asking me right away as to what I want to work on for the rest of my internship. It took me by surprise as I have often heard that companies hire interns to work on those tasks that their heads do not find worthy of their time. Here at Locus, both Vivek and Robin made sure my preference was taken into account and I got to choose what I really want to work on. In reply, I said I wanted to do what a Product Manager actually does.  Vivek then assigned me to write a specifications document (spec doc) right away. Apart from the spec doc side of things, Apurv, my current manager, also made sure that I shadow team mates on calls and discussions with other stakeholders like Engineering, Quality Assurance (QA) folks so that I get a holistic end-to-end understanding of various processes involved.

Even though I was an intern, I was invited to be a part of Product-Finance-Solutions off-site in Goa, which was a major highlight of my Locus journey. I got to meet so many talented folks that have such exceptional qualifications and varied interests that it truly inspired me and made me realize that there is a long way to go. The value-rich discussions I got to have with folks from different departments, the vision setting and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) sessions we had helped me understand this organization a lot better.

Many of the questions that I had about pods apart from TrackIQ and NodeIQ got answered. I understood what the company envisions for the upcoming quarters, and familiarized myself with so many complex jargons about financials, sales, and other operations that by the end of the third day, I felt much a lot more confident, enthused and most importantly: a lot more connected to this organization. This is how Locus fosters a long-term sustainable ambition in its team, where each member wants to give their best shot to achieve the company’s vision through outcomes and achievements that they can take pride in.

Getting to the Heart of Innovation with Teamwork and Customer Centricity

In addition to the five core values, TrackIQ focuses on three additional principles: user obsession, realizing quality products, and team effort.

Having been recruited during the pandemic, my interaction with teammates was initially limited to virtual channels. Through the off-site, I finally got a chance to meet Shehnaaz and Chandana, who I would describe as true epitomes of the TrackIQ principle of team effort — helping each other out and moving as fast as the slowest member in the team. I knew I could easily reach out to them on anything I was stuck on, and they would answer even the most basic questions with patience.

After working with TrackIQ for almost two months — writing spec docs, shadowing Engineering calls, attending spec reviews, and participating in Locus Sprint sessions — I now understand what innovation truly means.

Innovation, in its truest sense, is about solving your client’s issues with robust solutions. After numerous failed attempts, I understood the importance of being user-centric. Before crafting any solution, you first have to put yourself in your customer’s shoes. Only then can you innovate and create the best possible, holistic solutions to enhance their experience.

This principle is at the heart of how Locus builds its B2B logistics and customer experience solutions — ensuring that every feature and optimization begins with real customer needs.

Benefits of Interning at Locus

The Locus internship experience offers distinct advantages that set it apart from conventional tech internship programs:

1. Hands-On Product Management Exposure

Interns don’t perform busywork. From day one, you’re writing specification documents, attending stakeholder meetings, and contributing to decisions that shape enterprise-grade products like TrackIQ.

2. Structured Mentorship with Senior Leaders

Every intern is paired with managers who actively invest in their growth. Whether it’s Robin’s patience on a complex VB project or Apurv’s insistence on cross-functional shadowing, mentorship at Locus is deliberate and personalized.

3. Cross-Departmental Visibility

Inclusion in off-site events, sprint sessions, and vision-setting meetings gives interns a rare, 360-degree view of how an AI-powered logistics company operates — from engineering and product to finance, solutions, and the founder’s office.

4. Values-Driven Professional Development

Locus’s five core values — commitment, integrity, ambition, pride, and innovation — aren’t corporate platitudes. They’re practiced daily, from how problems are approached (integrity over shortcuts) to how teams collaborate (humility and mutual respect).

5. Real Impact on Enterprise Solutions

The work interns do at Locus directly influences the technology and processes trusted by 360+ enterprises worldwide. When you build a data validation algorithm that handles a million rows in under four minutes, that solution goes into the platform serving global clients.

6. Culture of Humility and Inclusion

From team leads Mohneesh, Saurabh, and Rahul to colleagues across every department, every person at Locus treats interns as full team members. This psychological safety accelerates learning and confidence.

Key Features of the Locus Internship Program

Why Choose Locus for Your Internship

Choosing where to intern is one of the most consequential career decisions an engineering student can make. Here’s what differentiates the Locus internship experience:

Culture that compounds. Unlike programs where interns are siloed into low-impact tasks, Locus invests in making you part of the team. The onboarding process, cross-departmental introductions, and off-site inclusion create a compounding effect — each week you understand more, contribute more, and grow faster.

Technology that matters. Locus’s AI-powered dispatch management platform powers logistics operations for 360+ enterprises across the globe. As an intern, you’re not working on sandbox projects — you’re contributing to the platform that optimizes route planning, real-time tracking, and sustainable supply chains for Fortune 500 customers.

Values you carry forward. The lessons on integrity, persistence, user-centricity, and humility aren’t just useful during the internship. They become professional foundations that differentiate you in every role thereafter.

A launchpad into product management. Multiple team members — from Vivek and Robin to Sanidh, Anmol, and Prabhat — actively shared guidance on how to successfully transition into a full-time Product Manager role after graduation. That kind of invested mentorship is rare in any internship program.

Humility: The Most Important Trait at Locus

Lastly, the most important trait I found in people here is humility. During the off-site, I had several opportunities to talk with all three team leads — Mohneesh, Saurabh, and Rahul. All three were extremely welcoming, and I learned immensely from their experiences.

Not only the leads, but everyone was kind and helpful. I was treated like a colleague at every step. I hope my journey has done justice to the values that Locus wants each and every employee to imbibe.

I look forward to learning more, accumulating many more memories, and continuing to grow together. Cheers!

Acknowledgments

This internship marked my first entry into the professional world. I feel grateful that the team tried their best to make my onboarding as smooth as possible so I never felt overwhelmed — or worse, left behind.

Special mentions:

• Shyam (IT Department) — my savior and go-to person for all IT-related issues
• Jyoti — for easing the interview process, onboarding, my transition from NodeIQ to TrackIQ, and all HR-related processes
• Sanidh and Anmol (Product team), Prabhat (Solutions team), and colleagues from the Delivery team and Founder’s Office — for making me feel at home and sharing wonderful insights about Locus and life in general
• Vivek (Legal) — a vibe in himself, and it was lovely to learn about his colorful life experiences

I am grateful to all team members at Locus for the exposure and guidance on successfully increasing my chances of landing a Product Manager role after graduation. Explore Careers at Locus to start your own journey.

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