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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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@SAMUFUENTES