Nicolas Tricot, BlaBlaCar

Growing the Tech team at ridesharing startup Blablacar

This is the story of Christian and Nicolas, two Tech Managers at BlaBlaTech, who shaped the engineering team of the highly successful ridesharing startup. The team has grown from one single French five-person team to a dozen distributed and fully agile teams with 30+ people in only two years. Their main responsibility? Building and scaling the development team by constantly improving engineering processes, integrating and training new talents, and anticipating tomorrow’s organization. Their challenges? Delivering the same level of quality software and services in an ever-growing business where customer feedback is instantaneous and shared all over the web.
Biography Nicolas Tricot studied computer science at French engineering school EPITA. He started his career in a small startup named PushMessenger to develop a social website and a chat system on mobile devices. He then worked for French dating service Meetic where he created the mobile web version for several European platforms. Afterwards, he joined the professional network Viadeo where he gathered and managed a large group of engineers to support the company growth, including remote teams. 6 years later, he joined BlaBlaCar's team of Tech managers in March 2014 where he is in charge of shaping the ever-growing development team and focuses on improving the hiring process and integrating talents, coaching for agile processes and anticipating tomorrow's organization.
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