 All right, all right Hello everybody We we're gonna add this today Eras specific areas where we can we can engage with Drupal developers with the team Our main focus here will be to to bring some some knowledge on throughout the years how we how we add this Eras where you can increase the team engage the team and also keep working to to bring more more developers or more people to to engage with the technology My name is Louise. I'm head of engineer for CINT And with me today, we have Paolo Paolo, please Hello, everyone. I'm Paolo. I'm a Drupal developer and I've been working for CINT for almost three years now And I met Drupal in CINT as well And we're gonna split this presentation to into areas we're gonna split Explain a little bit about the challenge how we address that on on the the volume that we have activities that we brought that improve this process throughout the years and Paolo will describe details about the training system. We got to share some some numbers with you and also some some results after everything that we have been applying through recently at the years a Little bit of of how we who we are we are at CINT We are a digital agents with more than six six thousand people around the globe We work basically with strategy design data and engineering to to support clients with talents The areas that we we were most competent our application modernization Customer experience and digital experience platform data and analytics digital products design and development digital strategy and innovation and We have a little bit of a Drupal in in in every era pretty much in digital experience platform and customer experience We are global agents Our headquarters is in Brazil, but we have offices and development centers in APEC Europe USA I am based in in North America Paolo is based in Brazil and we have teams across the globe Including Drupal developers and Drupal teams as well Our relationship with Drupal comes 15 years ago from now We we deliver something around 7,000 to 8,000 entities in Drupal from simple websites to B2B commerce Digital experience platform. So we experience a little bit of everything with Drupal We have an army of almost 500 developers engineers of the arc that's working with Drupal around the globe we we have huge impact on Drupal contribution as well We're gonna share details on how we engage on training doing projects at the same time contributing back to community And we are practice certification and have a lot of certified people as well Engagement challenge tackling a little bit about what are the issues that we have or How we need to address that the main challenge throughout the years on Attracting engage with people for first is how we find the right people to work with Drupal One thing that we we saw which is good when you attract someone Even in Brazil, they doesn't know Drupal too often and you need to highlight One how your company it's good on on the on the strategy that will support them in the engineering career How Drupal it's it's interesting as well as a tool to develop their their career and make them a great Professionals and it's great if you share what what you did so far You it's interesting always interesting when you when you share How are you gonna take care of their career with or without Drupal? But that that helps a lot for them to to engage and and then of course bring the right tools for then To support them on knowledge we have a little bit of everything sometimes we find Drupal developers to hire Pretty much that is that is a challenge as well So we need to find ways to build our our Drupal that developers from scratch and I'm gonna share details about it And it's great as I want to share details at least in high-level what what you did with Drupal and normally they got really excited in that That is a key Information for them to to to join our company. Okay So another important tips here be visible Share not only during the interview, but keep sharing what we have been doing in the project side in the contribution side Contributed to the open source ward a case is a specific case everything that you do a little bit bring more attention for for the engineer People that are not part of your company detail the career developments highlights Not only from engineer point of view, but which positions you have for Drupal from junior developer to software that's to To to work as well in areas like management that digital strategy and so one and again keep showing the results So is important for them Challenges in Drupal as well. When you start to engage with Drupal then you see Additional challenge that you need to address the learning curve curve with Drupal and we have other CMS in at home as well Normally is greater than other technology So you need to find better ways to to bring those information in a way that they will do adjust Important thing here before move forward. We we hire when when we don't find Drupal It's a good spot to find people of course in PHP Java. It's a good fit as well Python normally Python is a good transition to Drupal You need to show What I can do with Drupal relate to engineering Drupal sometimes for that is a CMS. They will not code on that that that's not good for for engineers So bring them opportunities like you can build documentation. You can build CMS You can build errors from a dev-up perspective use AWS to build things Match with Aqua for instance order hosts and and so on so you have a lot of appealing things that you bring to developers that you Can make them engage and another talent challenge as we are a global company recently we need to find ways either way to to hire them speaking English or Find ways to teach English for Dan from scratch because that will support them to to keep improving based on documentation learning learning tools and so on and also be Be more useful inside and throw the projects What we we had to build a few years ago It's an era inside our company do the size and how many projects we we have in house called it Drupal Compton softs We we start to invest in an era that will take over Of this area with the technology covering different different aspects and that shows a great decision Because we have been growing faster and supporting not only the training process But also supporting the selling selling process supporting even projects when needed And if you start to grow really really fast with Drupal That is a good thing to do and we can detail more how we do in house we started with two three people and When we are in full capacity, we can have more than 30 people just working on it Drupal Compton softs it can handle different areas So mainly it was created to keep updating the material that will be used for Dan to to self-learning and also to train new people We start to add give back to community with the team as well and a few years ago We have a session in Seattle that show us that we were doing great delivering project But we are not doing great on on contribution and that's a shame when we are talking about Drupal Cinti was 170 on ranking to contribution after we start to add that on the process within the training Cinti start to be top three contributor from the open source perspective and we have been there for the last four years So we match a little bit the usability of both areas boot camps Of course this this era supports a lot of boot camps in training We're gonna share a little bit more details about it and recently started to support pre-sales and innovation areas everything that is related to Estimates everything that is related to POC's are things that might be useful for for our clients These areas is there to support as well and being really helpful Main main keys key areas here to to keep like the engine moving forward we have we have right now something around 450 and 500 developers we need to deal with at rickson. We have new projects and we need to ramp up faster So we have three main pillars here one. It's the internship program that run year by year This team take care of it is focused on on people that are coming directly from from college And then we build pretty much great junior developers We have continuous boot camp that goes for junior developers and a mid-level developers We are doing some some like experimentation to boost as well for senior developer Which is a little bit different challenge and everything that we we use on those those areas We create self-learning tools to to be used for whoever needs and even the team teams that are training as well We keep adding material and they keep upgrading their knowledge Currently the most used Training process are called next gen which is for internship and tomorrow's talent Paolo will highlight details about the training how we tackle and then I will come back to show results for you so after we mapped our challenges and opportunities we Created this training model which contains hands-on activities to increase the capacity of the learning As it's an learning environment. We have we need also safe space so people can learn and And practice so we care about if they can If they feel comfortable to make mistakes and learn with it, of course people learn also in pairs in groups that has That have diverse and inclusion and we also Promote community sense as part of the training as it's part of CIT culture This is basically the timeline of the the training So first we have the hurry and then the welcome where people get to know each other and I introduce it to the company We have the training with videos and hands-on activities and at the end we have what we called analogy We have what we called That we have the part of the training where people practice what they learn so we have the Drupal project and the community contribution So a very important part of the learning framework is to bring the right people so we need people that have Positive attitude Willness to learn PHP and Drupal and open source community fit. We need people That knows programming logic and also open knowledge We need people with English for communication because all of our material Materials are in English and we also train people from different countries and People must be able to manage their time and use it and use flexibility flexibility with with a responsibility And since they are in process we start inspiring people so we show career opportunities so they They They can be part of something bigger because we support the Drupal community contribution and this make developers happier We they have the opportunity to learn Drupal from scratch The search amazing framework from scratch and they have the opportunity to be hired specifically to learn Drupal and not to handle Backlog issues at the same time as they are learning a new framework SCIT is a global company. They have the opportunity to build an international career They have the opportunity to go to a Drupal con as I'm here and They have the opportunity to get certified in different certifications because CIT have a contribution campaigns as well And this is how our training are structured So after the the people are hired we have the welcome and we have all those talks here's here with videos and Exercise the last two talks of the training which are Drupal project and community contribution they practice what they learned in the last talks and We are always improving our Training framework because we are always collecting feedback Feedbacks from people after they are in the project to check if it makes sense to learn the content We have in the training so all those topics in black are topics that we added Based on feedbacks we received from project leaders that received people that we trained To organize the content of the training we have materials from Drupal is me and we also create Videos so we use CIT University which is internal to to Manage the content we create ourselves and we also use the grid which is a platform to To organize the content so people know what they have to do and where they are in the training Those are all the technologies we cover During the training all the basic technologies that we think people need to know to perform in a project and the last part of the training is knowledge and validation which are the Contribution to the Drupal community and the Drupal project itself So the first part is the Drupal project we run a project with with the people we are training We run scrum to simulate a real project We separate them in teams from three to nine people and we use project management tools like a Jira so they are familiar with Process and the tools we use in CIT projects The project runs on top of Acura We have also a CI CD pipeline configured and they don't have to configure it, but they use it so if a build fails they check what happened and And know how to do it in a real project and of course It improves their technical skills in Drupal because they have to convert user stories to Drupal solutions so basically they before it they watch the videos and did some Specific hands-on exercise and then they have the Drupal project to validate their their knowledge So the purpose of our learning framework is to develop people and people give back to the community It's it's beautiful isn't it so When we mean community here, we mean CIT we mean our clients and of course We mean also the Drupal community so the last part of our learning framework is Contribution to the Drupal community so they learn how to contribute to the Drupal community They have autonomy to work on different Modules and even in core if they are able They join also the Drupal select where things happen in the Drupal community and it's good for business because CIT Again is listed as one of the Drupal top contributors. It's good for the employees because they increase their knowledge and Contribution make developers happier and it's good for the community because we have more people and Contributing so to follow up the training. We have daily meetings so we know exactly where people are in the training and With the grid the the platform we use to organize our content. We know where people are in exactly in the training We have also NPS of the training so each part of the training We we collect NPS and feedbacks So we collect about feedback of the videos of the project and of the contribution We evaluate the performance of the people during the training We also have to to checkpoints meetings during this training period And it's very important because people see that we are watching that that we care about their career and their performance and we also have numbers of issues handled and credits received by those people who are Contributing to the Drupal community who are in the last part of the training And all this data We display in a dashboard so we can have access To it. All right. Thank you, Paolo. So before we go to the results here. It's interesting to share as well that We need to find better ways to to match what is important for each people but also what is important for for company so everything that Paolo just shared from a Business girl point of view. It's interesting because open source. I've been a topic Really really hot recently when you are Participating on RFP or any other process. They start to ask like from last three years And Drupal is one of the greatest like open source community to have that like you can match pretty good with the results Of course the brain awareness. We're gonna share a little bit more details on it And of course in a nutshell you you are building a career for a professional and and normally they they become really great Engineers despite the fact it's with Drupal or not and everything that we share from numbers They're open to to executives managers to see results track how they're moving forward Which which helps a lot for to give feedbacks and also Adjust whatever we we believe it's important a little bit of results based on last Last year and last two years We we have been training something around 120 people year by year Which is an impressive number for the technology. So which means for junior and mid-level developer We have a machine that deliver these numbers. We can increase in street Stretch if we need it based on on how many projects we are building and we are developing People from different regions around the globe We have a high rate of Diversity inclusion. This is a problem that you you are able to to add as much as you can Recently on the last two quarters We we could hit more than 70% of diversity on this on these programs Which is a really high number of the corporate number something around if I'm not wrong 55 to 60 percent Of course these numbers are a little bit, but 70 percent in average a really great number is spread for all those categories and we were working really really heavily to increase that and Drupal contribution just related to those training process we have this this group contributing more to 1200 each credits And and that is impressive because if you join that with everything that you outside those programs It's a good contribution for for Drupal, which is great for business and great for for us as well Brain awareness as we shared like we have possibilities to have saintly highlighted in in so many places if you go to Drupal.org on on the On the footer you see saintly logo if you go to a commerce You see results and in case studies that we are participating if you go to the contribution or who is part of the other product You'll see scientists highlighted in different categories sometimes just behind aqua which is tough to beat but we are we are glad to be close to them and We have year by year on Dries notes for about who contributed to Drupal We're glad to see that they highlighted phrases like that the only system integration at the top 30 from the last three years He say the same phrase was saintly Which means we we can keep up with the a big dog conversation on deliver projects enterprise project but at the same time we are we are one of the Companies that are contributing heavily for the open source And we are listed top two or top three year by year They created new categories by weight and by numbers, but we are there on top 10 and top three Which is which is really great? And last but not least you have individual contribution as well Which is great for for the personas when you show something like that For a developer that will learn a technology come out of the college and they will be able to be part of one of the Great open source communities around the globe and be listed by name or directly That is something else or last last one we had three people from Sanity on top three on top 30 This guy here, Renato in 2018. He was the top contributor globally Alongside like he contributed more than everybody else. This year will have Renato in 29 talism 15 And this gentleman here that joins us two years ago is the top contributor in our company So he came from zero to hero in two years, which which represents that if you learn you can you can be part of it And that's it. Thank you guys