Introduction

Did you know that Bolt has more than 100 million customers in 45 countries across Europe and Africa? There’s quite an interesting engineering story behind it – the one that’s also happening in our engineering hub here in Bucharest! We wanted to share our experiences with you, as well as learn from the fantastic local community, hence we’re excited to have you join Bolt Engineering Meetup vol. 4 @ Bucharest!

The aim of this series of events is to share the knowledge, experiences, and best practices within our community, and why not have a good time whilst doing so! For our first meetup in Romania, we’re going to be hearing from a couple of Bolt engineers working in our Bucharest hub – they will share their real-life case studies with us.

Join us on the 30th of May. We’re thrilled to see you there!

Signing up

Our meetup will be available both in person and virtually via Zoom. Register your participation and get your e-tickets (either OFFLINE or ONLINE) through this Eventbrite platform.

Agenda

17.30 - 18:00 - Gathering & Networking

18:00 - 18:10 - Introductions & welcoming words by Horia Coman

18:10 - 18:40 - How to foresee the future (when will your food arrive) by Vlad Dascalu

Bolt Food was able to gain customer trust by offering an accurate estimated time of arrival for the current order. Attaining this accuracy is non-trivial, as it tries to predict when a set of human actors (restaurant, courier) will perform some specific tasks. By using past data, averaged biases, machine learning models and Gaussian probabilities, we were able to do it. Join this talk to learn how to reuse these approaches next time when the future needs to be predicted.

18:40 - 19:10 - Machine Learning for Maps by Andrei Ilie

When considering map problems that we encounter at Bolt, a good solution isn’t necessarily always a complex one, even when it comes to Machine Learning approaches. You will hear about how we built some of our core maps solutions, such as computing ETAs, by leveraging our data through modelling techniques.

19:10 - 19:30 - Quick break, drinks and snacks

19:30 - 20:00 - Identity verification by Radu Vasiliu

You’ll hear about the story behind building Bolt’s Identity Verification Platform. We’ll be focusing on the challenges we encountered throughout the journey and lessons learned from the first idea to the released product.

20:00 - 21:00 - Networking

How-to’s

Location🏢

Our meetup will take place in our office at Bolt (165 Splaiul Unirii, TN01 Building, 8th Floor, Bucharest).

Parking🚗

There are no reserved available parking spaces in the area, guests are able to park wherever they find an available spot, just make sure to check if there are any signs for paid parking so you can pay via text message. Or just arrive in style by Bolt!

About Bolt

Bolt is the European super-app that has 100 million customers in 45 countries and over 400 cities across Europe and Africa. The company seeks to accelerate the transition from owned cars to shared mobility, offering better alternatives for every use case, including ride-hailing, shared cars and scooters, and food and grocery delivery. Check out more about our story on https://bolt.eu/