How to scale tech teams. From 10 to 100 engineers
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@SAMUFUENTESSAMUEL FUENTES, EX-VP ENGINEERING
How to navigate the way from 10 to 100 engineers
P9C Tech Circle Meetup – 2016-06-02 Lisbon
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• 2000+ employees• 200,000 restaurants• 10M orders / month
In 4 years: global leader• 34 countries• #1 in 30 countries• 3B$+ valuation
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• Company founded in June 2011• Founding team
– No technical background– Strong M&A and fund-raising experience– Significant domain knowledge
• Licensed codebase– ~150k LOC– ~0% test coverage– No automated deployment– No documentation– >30 self-patched external libraries
Starting line: July 2011
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Fix the plane while flying
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Build cohesive and autonomous teams
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„Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley “
Sun Tzu – The Art of War
Establish good team dynamics
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To scale you need to delegate correctly
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„Display some fucking adaptability“Bobby Shaftoe – Cryptonomicon
Set up a culture of trust and allow for mistakes
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„The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place“
George Bernard Shaw
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Remove bottlenecks
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Mind the system architecture
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Everybody starts somewhere
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Cohesive and autonomous teams
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