BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is the go-to marketplace for shared mobility, combining short and long-distance carpooling and buses. In building the future of mobility, we set ourselves high and ambitious targets and bring tech and data to the heart of our product experience and strategy.

Create your own path in our Community Relations team

Career development can look many different ways at BlaBlaCar. Today we get to know Nara and Clovis and learn about their journey.

Victor Rubin

Dec 16, 2022

Behind RISE: BlaBlaCar’s mentorship program for women

An interview of Victoria Pinto-Mesías on how BlaBlaCar created its first-ever mentorship program dedicated to the development of women…

Victoria Pinto-Mesías

Dec 12, 2022

Starting a full-remote job as an Engineering Manager

Learning to step in as a manager in a remote-first environment

Yannick Hoffsess

Nov 23, 2022

Embedded Insurance: how can you bring value to your members with products integrated into their…

Discover how we provide Embedded Insurance to our members at BlaBlaCar!

Pierre Jean Hillion

Nov 18, 2022

How to make your Android app resilient to process death?

Learn how the Android death process works and how to manage it in your application.

Patrick Brochado

Nov 3, 2022

Increase operational coverage with Skills Matrices

Skills Matrix, how we use it to increase operational coverage and perform better as a team.

Maxime Fouilleul

Oct 28, 2022

Be Lean, Go Far: leveraging Kubernetes for an elastic right-sized platform

The era of static provisioning is over, let’s find out which engineering practices BlaBlaCar implemented to build an elastic platform.

Sebastien DOIDO

Sep 22, 2022

Do’s and Don’ts of Data Mesh

Are you considering data-mesh your organisation? Here are some tips on how to do it right — and what to avoid at all costs .

Kineret Kimhi

Sep 5, 2022

Can You Prepare Enough For The War?

How BlaBlaCar took on the challenge of the war in Ukraine: immediate actions and lessons learned.

Igor Ivashchenko

Sep 2, 2022

7 (+1) lessons I learned as a Product Manager at BlaBlaCar

They made me a much better PM.

Emilie Ringwald

Jul 18, 2022

Operating Node.js in Kubernetes at scale at BlaBlaCar

How the team behind BlaBlaCar’s web application is operating Node.js in Kubernetes

Guillaume Wuip

Jul 12, 2022

Meet Elina Roetynck, advocate for the BlaBlaCar community

Meet Elina, VP Community Relations, as part of our Women & Allies interview series.

Shannon Vettes

Jun 28, 2022

BlaBlaCar’s new headquarters in the age of remote work

Inaugurating a new BlaBlaCar HQ might sound paradoxical at a time where remote work is becoming the norm. Here’s why it’s not.

Nicolas Brusson

Jun 24, 2022

Update Istio the GitOps way

How BlaBlaCar deployed an Istio Service Mesh in its Kubernetes clusters while adhering to GitOps principles.

Thomas Perronin

Mar 18, 2022

Exploring New Trails in Daily Mobility

By creating new trips around you, carpooling allows you to explore new opportunities in your daily life.

Antoine Verhulst

Mar 9, 2022

How BlaBlaCar implemented a mentorship program for aspiring managers

How BlaBlaCar implemented a mentorship program to help individual contributors transition to a management career track.

Gilles Laborderie

Feb 22, 2022

100 (million) reasons to join BlaBlaCar

To celebrate reaching 100 million members on our platform, our team crowdsourced 100 reasons to join BlaBlaCar. Are you convinced yet?

Emilie Baliozian

Feb 15, 2022

Women & Allies — Meet Verena Butt d’Espous, the voice of BlaBlaCar

Welcome to Women & Allies at BlaBlaCar; a new series of interviews from our team on allyship, support, and growth of the women we work…

Shannon Vettes

Feb 10, 2022

Istio-redirector: the way to go to manage thousands of HTTP redirections

The only tool you need to manage your redirections with Istio.

Etienne Fontaine

Jan 18, 2022

How we evolved our logging stack to sustain a growing Service Oriented Architecture organization

This article describes how BlaBlaCar changed its log stack from a single-tenant to a multi-tenant platform, ensuring strong data…

Melchior Moulin

Jan 17, 2022

Ending another epic year, and welcoming 2022

As the year comes to an end, it’s time to reflect on the events that marked 2021.

Nicolas Brusson

Dec 21, 2021

Interview — on BlaBlaCar’s tech hub in Kyiv and plans for a global bus marketplace

New VP Engineering Igor Ivashchenko on BlaBlaCar’s bus marketplace and hiring opportunities in Ukraine.

Yuliia Krupenko

Dec 14, 2021

A Project Manager’s toolkit

4 little things I wish I learned about before becoming a PM.

Simon Rimbert

Dec 8, 2021

Incident Management at BlaBlaCar

How does BlaBlaCar manage an ever-increasing number of members and the technical challenges that come with it?

Jean Baptiste Favre

Nov 29, 2021

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