How It's Made
How It's Made
Supercharging ML/AI Foundations at Instacart
By Haixun Wang and Jagannath Putrevu Machine Learning (ML) is one of the most impactful technology levers we have at Instacart to make our services better and help our customers, shoppers, retailers, and brand partners. ML investments at Instacart started as early as 2014, when we deployed our first set of models within Logistics to do demand forecasting, picking and driving time predictions, and order…
Aug 15, 2023
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Say Hello to Ben Greve, Senior Product Designer
What do you do?I’m a product designer working on Instacart’s consumer experience. I’m currently working on growth projects that help us attract new customers.How did you get into design?I once got explosively angry at a…
Sep 13, 2019
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Say Hello to Andrew Chen, Senior Marketing Designer
What do you do?I’m a Senior Marketing Designer at Instacart in Toronto. I work in our Product Marketing team and focus on our enterprise products.How did you get into design?I loved illustration as a child…
Sep 10, 2019
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Say Hello to Rafe Chisolm, Senior Product Designer
What do you do? I’m a Senior Product Designer on the Instacart Acquisition team, focused on growing our customer base. We always want to reach new people, so we work with paid placements, SEO, virality, retailer…
Sep 6, 2019
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Say Hello to Ryan Scott Tandy, Design Director
You’ve had a long career spanning startups, agencies, and big corporations — what are your learnings from each phase of it?I’ve been designing for a long time. I got my start in the dot-com 1.0 era! I…
Sep 4, 2019
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Say Hello to Genesis Silva, Senior Brand Designer
What do you do?I help develop the Instacart visual identity and enforce it across all touchpoints of our multi-sided marketplace. I’m working to not only establish a really an authentic voice but ensure that it’s…
Sep 4, 2019
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Redesigning how we eat
Exploring mobile product design with Ryan Scott TandyRyan Scott Tandy, our new Director of Product Design just joined to lead the team that’s designing the app millions of our customers use to browse and order groceries…
Aug 31, 2019
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Say Hello to Brendan Peppler, Research Operations Specialist
What do you do?I support Instacart’s team of researchers by recruiting participants for user studies, facilitating survey outreach, organizing team resources, and promoting team findings internally at Instacart.How did you get into the field of…
Aug 29, 2019
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Say Hello to Himani Amoli, Design Manager
She’s never met a pizza she didn’t like.What do you do?Currently, I lead the design team that builds products for Instacart Shoppers. We’re a team of 8 that’s passionate about making products that improve the Shopper…
Aug 26, 2019
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Say Hello to Daniel Shilov, Senior Product Designer
What do you do?I’m a Senior Product Designer at Instacart working on the consumer experience team. Most recently I’ve been involved with the design of Instacart Pickup, a project that spanned multiple digital and physical…
Aug 20, 2019