What makes you, you?

Genes

Instructions from parents

Stores on long strings of chemicals

DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid)

DOUBLE HELIX

Order matters A LOT!!!

Genome (entire DNA sequence)

3.2 billions of based pairs

9.5 years

10 wpm, 8 hours/day, 50 years

6000 times to moon!

8 hours to copy!

99.9% identical

Summer at Groupon

Sam Serpoosh@masihjesus

masihjesus.wordpress.comgithub.com/Sam-Serpoosh

Little bit on Business I’m TERRIBLE at business (Please don’t

quote me on any of these!)

Helping LOCAL Businesses

Saved businesses and improved them a lot

Shedd Aquarium ran a Groupon and 14000 people showed up!

A little bit on Business (Cont.) Finding appropriate merchants and

deals

Customizing deals specifically for each merchant!

Combination of Humans and Algorithms (rare combination)

A little bit on Business (Cont.)

Go Mobile!

A little bit on Business (Cont.)

More than 200 million subscribers

A little bit on Business (Cont.)

A little bit on Business (Cont.) Every day sending email to subscribers

(BORING! BooOooOo!!!)

BUT, editorial to the rescue (and other tricks)

A little bit on Business (Cont.) The Voice

Humans develop smiles as a way to deflect predators in the wild and former bosses in the grocery store! (Deal for a dentist!)

A little bit on Business (Cont.) Started as less than 20 people 48 countries, 98 offices, more than

10000 people in less than 4 years!

A little bit on Business (Cont.) Wall: “Are you gonna be one of them?!”

A little bit on Business (Cont.)

I do NOT know! (again please don’t quote me on that! )

Technical/Engineering side Collaboration becomes harder when a

company grows

Made up of small teams (5-10 people)

Daily Stand up, Weekly meetings, one to one with director of engineering!

Technical/Engineering side (Cont.) Someone has done it already & can help

you!

Agile/XP/Scrum/etc. What works the best (Inspect & Adapt all you need)

Code Quality matters A LOT!

Design discussion & consider alternatives

Technical/Engineering side (Cont.) Be open to change (Don’t be defensive

about your code!!!)

Automated Testing on Different Levels Continuous Refactoring (Boy scout rule)

Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.)

Big open source community!

Pull Requests are more than welcome

Help to make things better EVERY where!

Don’t re-invent the wheel either use it or improve it!

Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.) Fast feedback

Trial and error! There is NO ONE answer

Do a quick and simple thing, LEARN from it

Could save millions of dollars!!!

Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.) Self-Growth Book Clubs Clojure Lunch

Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.)

Pairing on Side-Projects for deliberate practicing

Hackathon

GeekOn (Bit Coin payments)

Going to Conferences couple times a year

Automated Merchandising

Page Real-Estate

Widget Development Platform

Auction, bidding system

Experimentation Framework

Learn from and make sense out of data

Preaching/Advice

In place to preach am not!

Collection of interesting advice from professionals and passionate people in software development and programming!

What you’re interested in and mostly passionate about FIND!

It just your work is NOT!

It all your time, nights and weekends TAKES!

If you’re a pure tech person and that’s what you’re enjoying then THAT’S IT!

Based on your perspective CHOOSE!

Value a business solely on their share price NEVER!

Continuously read/practice/improve

Get out of your comfort zone (So many possibilities out there)

a better knowledge and understanding of what’s going on under the hood HAVE!

Learn things for career’s sake do NOT!

“An expert is a man who made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow filed!” – Niels Bohr

More info/links 18 things to know about your genes

Groupon Public Facts

Interview with Andrew Mason in 60 minutes!

Summer Internship at Groupon

One on One by Doc Norton

Contact/info Links: https://github.com/Sam-Serpoosh https://twitter.com/masihjesus https://masihjesus.wordpress.com https://linkedin.com/in/samserpoosh

sam.serpoosh@gmail.com