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Authors: Xiao Xiao , Taesik Na , Tejaswi Tenneti , Guanghua Shu As a fast-growing e-commerce platform and the leading grocery technology company, Instacart has an ever-expanding catalog of over 1 billion products from 900+...

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Authors: Guanghua Shu and Sahil Khanna Instacart incorporates machine learning extensively to improve the quality of experience for all actors in our “four-sided marketplace” — customers who place orders on Instacart apps to get deliveries...

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Authors: Esther Vasiete Tejaswi Tenneti For an eCommerce platform like Instacart, Search is an important tool for making shopping feel effortless by helping people find the products they want, even when they are not sure...

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Authors: Benjamin S. Knight & Bryan Rusk One of our core missions at Instacart is to enable our retailer partners. When we succeed at deriving efficient delivery routes, accurately predicting the time it takes to...

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Anahita Tafvizi joined Instacart in early 2021 and today, she leads the Data Science team which has more than doubled in size during her tenure. Our Data Science team is charged with identifying and informing...

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Instacart’s hyper-growth entails increasing machine learning applications and requires fast iterations of machine learning workflows. To meet these requirements, we built Griffin, an extensible platform that supports diverse data management systems, integrates with multiple machine...

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“It sounds cliché, but data drives Instacart’s entire business —our logistics and shopping processes, as well as our ordering experience, are all based on data,” explains Abhi Kalakuntla, Engineering Manager on Instacart’s growing Data Infrastructure...

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How Instacart’s Fulfillment Technology group is working to make picking all of the items on your list as painless as possible Authors: Benjamin S. Knight & Jason Cromer Introduction Is that wedge of Wisconsin sharp...

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Written by Girija Narlikar , Engineering Director, Ads Quality Imagine your favorite neighborhood grocery store, except that it’s arranged especially for you on every visit. Instacart’s ads platform is powering a marketplace filled with digital...