Christian Jennewein @cestcri https://github.com/cestcri ● @ BlaBlaCar since January 2013 as Tech Manager ● Scaling the team & organisation, Agile coach on a daily basis ● I won the Polish Ultimate Frisbee Championships in 2009 with GMF
Dominika Gierczynska ● @ BlaBlaCar since September 2014 as a Tech Talent Scout ● Helping to find the best IT talents in France & Poland ● I was a semi-professional Basketball player
Bartłomiej Bąk @brtkbak ● @ BlaBlaCar since June 2014. Now in Marketing Team ● Spread BlaBlaLove in Poland ● Already travelled in 5 countries with BlaBlaCar
Patrycja Goras @patrycjagoras ● @ BlaBlaCar since March 2014 in Admin Team ● coordinating finance and HR in Poland ● Testing the product in real life - avid ride-sharer on Warsaw - Kielce route
Benjamin De Bernardi @_GeneSoR https://github.com/genesor ● @ BlaBlaCar since October 2014 as Developer ● Fixing & improving stuff on a daily basis ● Developing new features with TeamGreen ● I’m the youngest employee of BlaBlaCar + competitive paintball player
Erwann Robin @diwann ● @ BlaBlaCar since November 2013 as 1st dedicated Mobile Developer ● Smooth migration of the old webapps to new native apps ● iOS Developer in TeamOrange on a daily basis ● I’m a trampoline teacher
Michał Pawelec @Michal_Pawelec_ ● In BlaBlaTeam since Oct 2012 ● Country Manager for Poland ● happy to make PL team working in best conditions ● I was on highest peak of Poland and at the seaside on the same day!
Nicolas Tricot @sholine42 https://github.com/sholine ● @ BlaBlaCar since March 2014 as Tech Manager ● Scaling the team & organisation ● Agile coach on a daily basis for TeamRed and TeamOrange ● Arrived the day after BlaBlaBreak 2014…
Piotr Zarówny @pzpl https://github.com/pzpl ● Previously Scrum Master & Software Engineer at GG ● @ BlaBlaCar since May 2015 as Tech Manager ● Building & leading the new tech team in Warsaw ● Been on BlaBlaBreak before arrival…
54% join to save money Join for the SAVINGS 80% “more affordable” Stay for the SHARING 5x cite social motivations Repeat Passengers versus First Timers: 5.5x cite ecological motivations Love for the FREEDOM 54% feel more mobile 25% closer to loved ones
The BlaBlaCar mission ● Vision ○ Build the biggest global social transportation network ● Mission ○ Spread ridesharing all over the word ○ Educate the markets & adapt the product
How? ● Learn ○ TeamYellow ○ SmartRecruiters, Criteo, Facebook, ... ● Act ○ Find local hands-on Tech Manager ○ Enter the community ○ Find 3-4 developers in the next months ● Scale ○ Double the team in 2015 ○ Keep on doubling... WE ARE HERE
Internet Load Balancer WEB servers (PHP / Symfony 2) Master Slaves Master Slaves Databases MemCached / Reddis Elastic Search C D N Rabbit MQ Monitoring
● configure local dev environment ● get to know whole platform & all technologies ● do code review ● push code to production on first week ● try to memorize all the names :) Tech onboarding in Paris
Product projects 2/2 ● Referral program ● Assistance program in case of issues ● Build a CRM tool on top of our member base ● Further improve moderation tools ● Enhance business driver & fraud detection ● Additional trip insurance
Tech projects 1/2 ● Cassandra for distributed datastores ● Gateway project for decoupling the application ● Migration to PHP7 and Symfony3 ● Virtual seats project
Tech projects 2/2 ● Docker for dev and preprod environment ● Optimise visited trips page (archiving) ● Timezones, UTC, multi-currency ● Provide lighter mobile apps for emerging markets
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