A blog to follow the progress of Empathy Academy
Empathy.co is the leading innovator in commerce Search and Discovery. With over 150 Developers and Search Engineers, it has headquarters in London (UK) and Asturias (ES).
Committed to building human-centred commerce Search and Discovery platforms, Empathy.co gives big brands all they need to create trustworthy, understanding and joyful shopping experiences.
Empathy.co believes that great technology can inspire brands to respect the individual, serve the community and thrive through these relationships.
Trusted by global industry leaders like Carrefour, Kroger and Inditex, Empathy is privately held with no external investors, is cash-flow positive and has seen sales grow by 124% in 2020. With this, Empathy.co is free to innovate and relentlessly pursue customer success.
Academy shows Empathy's commitment to academia and young talent. Its objective is to develop a long-lasting relationship between the industry and the learning community.
From challenges and seminars to internships, Academy looks to be involved in training and research efforts.
This programme recruits young talent to train them in our technologies and practices, being a bridge between academia and the work world.
Empathy.co summons three batches per year: Winter, Summer and Fall. Each Bach consists of a variety of learning Paths focused on one expertise. Lasting the programme for six months in two different phases.
Through their fellowship in the programme, the Academy Fellows follow a three-month development process to acquire their proficiency with Empathy.co's guidance.
During this phase, the Academy Fellows develop some Deployment Examples, some of them individually, others in groups and the main one in a multidisciplinary manner across the different Paths.
Selected Academy Fellows develop their own project, designing, creating, and implementing their MVP in this phase.
Code name: B12022.
| Frontend Path | Backend Path | Data Path |
|---|---|---|
| Carmen Rendueles | Alberto Díez | Enrique Carnero |
| Miguel Ligero | Daniel Barrientos | Pablo Santurio |
| Marcos Tobías | Rodrigo Álvarez |
Guided by Empathy.co's values, this batch aims to collaborate with JaimeObregon/subvenciones project.
- Engage the dataset in our search engine, being fast, reliable and easy to use.
- Create an amazing webpage.
- Analyze, compare and build insights doing fancy "data magic".
- Some nice to have optinal developments to keep the website relevant and the project alive.
- Create awareness and motivate the community.
- March 7th: Batch Kick-off
- April 9th: Blog starts
- April 11th: Multidisciplinary project starts
- May 9th: Preparation for the 2nd Phase project
- May 27th: Live presentation of the project results
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May 30th: Fork @JaimeObregon's repository- Instead of forking, during the desing thinking phase, the Fellows decided to start from scratch.
- The repository will be public later on.
- May 30th: Agile rutine starts
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June 3rd: Project Gant chart- Gantt chart replaced with a roadmap (link WIP).
- June 16th: Fellows decide main features to engage with the selected personas. Features (link WIP) | User Personas (link WIP):
- June 30th: Front (1st half) to visualise general data insights.
- July 14th: Front (2nd half) with quality components to have a joyful interaction with the data and the search engine.
- August 5th: Live presentation