GoDaddy Dev Centar

Current State, Options, Future

June 14th 2017

People Capacity

Product management
Engineering
Design

Hiring Capacity in Serbia

• 4000 new students enter CS majors per year
• 1500 students graduate per year
• More than 2500 students get CS jobs during college

Serbia is ranked 40 in the world at ICT export

It is estimated that we have around 30k active developers

Top Class people can be acquired between $30k and $60k per year 

MCDS (2005 - present)

• 220 FTE Software Engineers
• Around 100 Interns (mostly in Labeling)
• 50+ are other FTE

  Handwriting Recognition Team

  Image Analysis Platform Team

  SQL Server Team

  Office Team

  Bing Maps Team
   

Next steps

1. Solidify Team
2. Maximize Execution
3. Take on R&D

R&D Dev Center

Reduces Cost & Risk

• Validate MVP
• Lower Dev Costs
• Focused Execution

KPIs

• ROI
• Team Learning
• Process Improvement