How It's Made
How It's Made
The Next Era of Data at Instacart
By Nate Kupp Data is an integral part of how we do business at Instacart: for informing decisions, providing insights into how our users interact with the product, supporting ML/AI use, and much more. Over the years, we’ve accumulated a tremendous wealth of data to support all of these activities, but for a long time, deriving value from our data in most of these domains…
Aug 16, 2023
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Say Hello to Serena Wu, Senior Product Designer
What do you do?As a Senior Product Designer on the Consumer Growth team, I focus on building the best first-time experience for new customers, from signing up to placing that first order. Previously, I was…
Aug 18, 2021
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Say Hello to Anabelle Roeser, Marketing Designer
What do you do?I like to say I make things thoughtfully beautiful. As a marketing designer at Instacart, I design customer-facing marketing materials, from digital ads to social media content, emails, and print advertising, and…
Aug 18, 2021
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Say Hello to Phillip Chagoya, Content Strategy Manager
What do you do?I lead copy for Instacart across the Marketing and Product teams. Because we’re a growing brand, it’s really important that the messages in our apps, ads, emails, and every other audience touchpoint…
Aug 18, 2021
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Managing the Unmanageable
What it takes to be a Technical Program ManagerBy: Orit ShamirOrit is Instacart’s Senior Manager of Technical Program Management. She’s spent her career driving the design, integration, and launch of hardware programs at Apple. Before that…
Aug 18, 2021
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Say Hello to Sherah Beck, UX Researcher
What do you do?I’m a UX Researcher at Instacart. Most of my work to date has had a focus on understanding shopper motivations, behavior, values, and areas we can improve (both qualitatively and quantitatively) to…
Aug 18, 2021
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Building a Better way to Help Shoppers
Overview Grocery shopping seems like a relatively straightforward task — when it’s for yourself. When you shop for others, there are a lot of variables that can make the experience more complex. As someone begins to shop…
Aug 18, 2021
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Terraforming RDS — Part 1
The basics of Terraform and RDS. At Instacart we are approaching a hundred PostgreSQL instances running in AWS RDS. They are all managed in Terraform. Using Terraform with RDS has caused a lot of pain…
Aug 18, 2021
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Building an Essential Service During a Pandemic
A Q&A with Instacart CTO, Mark Schaaf It’s been a busy few months. We’re seeing the highest customer demand in Instacart history and have more active shoppers on our platform today than ever before, picking and…
Aug 18, 2021
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Nailing the Handoff
Exploring Certified Delivery’s checkout and delivery flows While Instacart’s bread and butter has always been and will continue to be grocery, many grocers and specialty retailers have a wide variety of items in their catalogs…
Aug 18, 2021