BlaBlaTech @ Warsaw

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1. BlaBlaCar BlaBlaTech @ Warsaw 28 May 2015

2. Summary 1. Who we are? 2. BlaBlaCar? 3. BlaBlaTech? 4.

   Technologies & Projects?

3. Who we are?

4. 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

5. 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

6. Bartłomiej Bąk @brtkbak • @ BlaBlaCar since June 2014. Now

   in Marketing Team • Spread BlaBlaLove in Poland • Already travelled in 5 countries with BlaBlaCar

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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!

11. 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…

12. 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…

13. BlaBlaCar

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16. A Fast Growing Community

17. ...in 19 countries

18. 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
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20. The BlaBlaCar mission • Vision ◦ Build the biggest global

    social transportation network • Mission ◦ Spread ridesharing all over the word ◦ Educate the markets & adapt the product

21. Poland • launched in October 2012 with 3 persons team

    • now > 1 million Polish members • no. 1 ridesharing service in Poland - and growing!

22. PL Team - from 3 to 12

23. BlaBlaTech BlaBlaTech.com Follow us on Twitter @BlaBlaCarTech

24. BlaBlaTech People

25. Warsaw Bucharest Paris People

26. BlaBlaTech today ?

27. Miami Singapore 2x Paris Servers

28. BlaBlaTech missions + Experts...

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30. Website

31. Monetize

32. Mobile Apps

33. Backoffice

34. Tech committee Refactoring / Optimisations

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37. System & Network Architecture

38. Be available 24/7

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40. Business Intelligence Collect, model & share

41. BlaBlaTech Organisation

42. Agile boards

43. Daily Standups

44. Ceremonies

45. Constant website updates

46. Friday demo

47. Culture

48. BlaBlaTalk

49. Values

50. BlaBlaTech Culture

51. Thursday “Pot Tech”

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53. BlaBlaTech Warsaw

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55. Why?

56. Why?

57. Why? • One single Tech hub in Paris • good

    but few talents • heavy competition • hard to scale while recruiting only the best

58. What? • New full-BlaBlaCar backend development team • build to

    last, build to grow • autonomous, ownership • adding (cultural) diversity

59. Where? • Warsaw! • existing BlaBlaCar hub • strong dev

    culture • good talents • less competition

60. 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

61. Challenges • Distance impacts efficiency • Intensify onboarding sessions •

    Always respect the 3 golden rules 1. Overcommunicate 2. Overcommunicate 3. Overcommunicate

62. Technologies

63. Our stack

64. Internet Load Balancer WEB servers (PHP / Symfony 2) Master

    Slaves Master Slaves Databases MemCached / Reddis Elastic Search C D N Rabbit MQ Monitoring

65. • 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

66. Projects

67. Product projects 1/2 • Two-ways rating • 1-click payment •

    Google Sign-in • Voucher program • ID verification via third party services

68. 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

69. Tech projects 1/2 • Cassandra for distributed datastores • Gateway

    project for decoupling the application • Migration to PHP7 and Symfony3 • Virtual seats project

70. 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

71. BACKEND DEVELOPERS IN PARIS/FRANCE WARSAW/POLAND

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73. Follow us for a drink! :-D

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75. Follow us @BlaBlaCarTech Thanks!