Manychat Engineering

Wanna play a game? We’ve got something for you🕹

Sergey Lisovskiy, designer, frontend developer, and marketing technology team lead at ManyChat, shares on Medium how to create a web game in less than two weeks and turn it into a tool for transmitting the values of the agile development methodologies, expose all the cheaters, get tons of positive feedback, and even win a few awards.

Link to the game you can find in the comments.

Burn the Tickets: a story about a web game for the dev conference We developed a game to support our participation in a conference

On the 9th of November, we’ll get together with the Yerevan product designers at the Avito meetup to talk about the value of inner communities.

Our head of Product Design and Design Community Leader, Sergey Timofeev, will join the panel discussion about building inner communities and their benefits for a company.

Meetup schedule

19:00–19:35 | Team at the moments of turbulence: how to break everything and rebuild it to move on — Irina Pushkareva and Sergey Shabalin, Miro

19:35–20:10 | Power of internal communities: why you should create and develop them, and build new ones — Olesya Kostrykina and Nikolai Khechumov, Avito

20:10–21:00 | Panel discussion “How to build inner community and who benefits from it”

21:00–22:30 | Networking

Don’t miss it, if you happen to be in Yerevan, the entrance is free but you have to be registered.

The link for registration you can find in the comments.

Working with more than 70 people in the Product Group our Scrum Masters had to facilitate two or three events almost every day.

Maryna Zhydenko and Kate Vekova realized that they took on most of the meeting ownership and decided to share the responsibility. That’s how the idea of a facilitation school was born🎓

If you are looking for a boost to launch internal training in your company, in this article you’ll find both inspirational and practical advice.

Internal Facilitation School. Why not? This is Maryna and Kate, ManyChat Scrum Masters, and we’d like to share our experience of building an internal school.

Analytics gives you the possibility to ask questions about your business and get reliable answers and actionable insights, but it always takes much effort to create a proper data analytics system🦾

Nikolay Golov, our Head of Data Engineering, shared his experience in building one at ManyChat and told how one of the main benefits of data modeling, long-term cost efficiency, can be proved by practice.

Read the article on Medium🧩

Data Modeling today: launching cost-effective analytics for ManyChat In this article, I’d like to consider a rather big practical case — launching an analytical system for a rather complex business.

Shopify is one of the leading platforms for creating online stores. As we create a service for eCommerce, we’ve decided to integrate ManyChat with it.

In this article, Evgeniy Zhukov, Backend Developer, ManyChat, told how a quick-and-dirty MVP evolved throughout the year, became one more stream of our product development, added multiple functionalities, and eventually reached its freeze🧊

We touch upon the versioning problem we faced at the start and how we solve it, and what metrics we used to understand if this integration should be scaled or not.

Evolution of Feature: MVP — Beta — Feature Freeze My name is Evgeniy, I’m a backend developer at ManyChat. I would like to share our experience in integrating with Shopify.

Do you remember how we spent a Saturday in May with UXEVN sharing experiences on product design and discussing all aspects of adaptivity? Yep, we’ve already forgotten about it too👀

Luckily, we’ve got a video report from the event, and now it’s on our YouTube channel🎥

Check it out✨

ManyChat x UXEVN Design Meetup ManyChat and the product design community UXEVN got together in Yerevan to discuss all aspects of adaptivity.Arina Mesnyankina, Product Designer, Manychat, t...

At ManyChat, organizational and business processes are constantly changing. Scrum Masters have a direct impact on those changes🙌🏻

Last year, Irina Srypnik, our Agile Lead, interviewed about 40 potential Scrum Masters, and only one of them joined the team.

We know how hard it’s to find a person who has the necessary knowledge, relevant experience, and right-thinking strategies to effectively make business changes. That’s why we decided to share our experience to help you find the right people.

39 Questions to hire a Scrum Master Last year we interviewed about 40 potential Scrum Masters, and only one of them joined the team. That’s why we decided to share experience.

imagine we have to analyze some data about the items clients see in a list on your web application. It can be search results, items for sale, most relevant posts in the news feed, or a list of new conversations for customer support🤔

If you work with big data and there are few analysts who want to do the same operation the same efficient way, data modeling is here to help.

Nikolay Golov, Head of Data Engineering, ManyChat, talks about the way to simplify queries, save the budget and make life easier for your analytics team.

Data modeling in the world of the Modern Data Stack 2.0 In this article I’d like to illustrate how the technologies of modern data stack let analysts search for insights without any modeling

It’s time to share photos from HeyGrowth conference📸 We had a great time, gained a lot of insights, and met so many talented people.

Thank everyone who came up to our booth and participated in our activities. You are amazing💙

Special thanks to Artur Evstefeev, Slava Busarov, and all the colleagues who supported us at the conference.

Most of the data modeling problems are not problems anymore, they can be easily solved with the help of the modern data stack. Sounds good, but it seems like there should be something wrong with it. Usually, when we get rid of a number of difficulties, other problems come out right away.

Nikolay Golov, Head of Data Engineering at ManyChat, proposes to discuss do we really need Data modeling in the world of the Modern Data Stack today, what approach is better to use and who you should think about when you build an analytical platform.

Do we really need data modeling in the world of the modern data stack? I have 15 years of experience as a data engineer. In the beginning, I worked with classical OLTP databases, like MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL…