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October 13, 2022
On Tuesday October 11, 2022 Google announced in a press release that Wayfair completed the migration of all our data center applications and services to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This was a significant move that will provide huge benefits, enabling us to increase agility, technical innovation, and more. You can read the full press release [here].
October 6, 2022
“My job involves making highly business critical technical decisions,” says Alex Maclinovsky. “In my role, I have to go through a large number of technical documents, presentations and make a lot of time-sensitive decisions.”
September 28, 2022
As the CTO of Wayfair, Fiona Tan leads the global technology organization responsible for shaping market-leading experiences for the company’s 30 million plus customers, 14,000 suppliers and thousands of employees.
September 20, 2022
Wayfair recently celebrated a significant milestone. I’ll give you a hint-it was featured in a roundup of the top 20 innovations from Wayfair’s first two decades of operation. The answer is Wayfair’s new homegrown warehouse management system (WMS), Nexus.
September 13, 2022
Style transfer: How Wayfair leverages customer browse activity in one furniture category to inform recommendations for a category they have never shopped before.
September 6, 2022
Erika Frost says that science “was in the air” at her childhood home in Colorado.
September 1, 2022
Not everyone wants to speak with someone when they need to set up a return or report an issue with their order. We built an NLP-powered Virtual Assistant to provide our customers a fast and easy option that’s available 24/7 to resolve their service-related issues.
August 30, 2022
Advertisements are a key aspect of Wayfair’s marketing and growth strategy. Powering each of these ads is a plethora of data - product name, description, price, quantity - all used to maximize RoAS (Return On Advertising Spend) and present the highest quality ads to potential and returning customers. As one might expect, managing this data is no easy task. Different teams handle different subsets of data, and each has its unique platform and way of providing access.
August 23, 2022
One of the industry events I look forward to most every year is the Women of Silicon Valley. Whether you are at the apex of your career, at the beginning, or somewhere in between, this is a great event for any woman in technology.