About Beat Engineering Blog

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Follow us for a behind the scenes tour in the ride-hailing app world. Take deep dives into our coding, data mining and more practices. Enjoy the ride!

Note from the editor

Beat creates a new ride experience by connecting thousands of passengers with nearby available drivers in real-time. Through the app, you can request a driver 24/7. Beat invests in the development of revolutionary mobility solutions that transcends the limits of transfer from A to B. Our mission is to develop seamless mobility for a safe and sustainable urban life, becoming part of people’s life by making transportation in the city more affordable, efficient and reliable, while providing economic opportunities to everyone. The company was founded in 2011 and is part of the FREE NOW group, the ride-hailing joint venture of BMW and Daimler. Beat’s footprint is rapidly expanding with current service in Greece, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Argentina. Our headquarters are located in Athens (Greece), with our Tech Innovation and Engineering Hubs being split in Athens, Amsterdam and Mexico City.

Editors

Writers

Software Engineer @taxibeat. Passionate about Javascript and all things web.

Nikos Maounis

Love mobile and everything Apple. Working as Head of Mobile at Skroutz. https://blog.typpz.com

Thanassis Bantios

Agile Coach at Beat

Phoebe Prosalika

Head of Culture@ Beat

Sanja Ilic

COO @TheBeatApp

Dimitris Baltas

Coder at TheraPanacea.eu. Loves TDD, Agile, markdown and git.

Chris Margonis

Senior Android Software Engineer @Plum

Theodore Albanidis

Growth Lead at Beat with Obsessive Learning Disorder.

Christos Papidas

Software Engineer

Sotirios Mantziaris

is a Senior Engineering Manager at Beat

Chris Loukas

Senior SRE @HelloFresh

Alexander Antoniades

Software Engineer at BEAT

Panagiotis - Maurice Van de Goor

Fotis Papadopoulos

Software Engineer — DevOps culture advocate, organization freak

Tsolis Anastasios

iOS Engineer Manager - Infrastructure @Beat

Andreas Strikos

Trying to understand computer systems for long time now, realizing I know less every day. SRE @GitHub

Emmanouil Kounalakis

Android nerd

Markos Chandras

Senior DevOps Engineer@Beat interested in all the things from kernel to cloud and from mountains to seaside.

Akis Maziotis

Excited about computer networks and enthusiastic in scaling complex workloads efficiently. Senior DevOps engineer @ Mattermost

Alexis Polyzos

Site Reliability Engineer

Nestoras

Site Reliability Engineering Manager @ Beat

John Torakis

More or less still a child. I work and perceive the world as a Security Engineer, with special love to Blue Team and Purple Ops. Author of “securosophy.com”