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Wayfair Data Science Hosts 2nd Immersion Program

Wayfair Data Science Hosts 2nd Immersion Program

Rachel Kirkwood Rachel Kirkwood July 11th, 2018

Top left to right: Yumeng Ma (University of Michigan), Steven Yin (Columbia), Michael Spece, Carnegie Mellon University), Quinn Donahoe (University of Pittsburgh), Cristian Gavrus (UC Berkeley) Bottom left to right: Ai Xu (Harvard), Elyse Norton (NYU), Aybike Ulusan (Northeastern),Yuija Zhou (Boston University)   It’s safe to say that Wayfair’s Data……

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The Python Platform Startup: Building From the Ground Up

The Python Platform Startup: Building From the Ground Up

Jonathan Biddle Jonathan Biddle June 25th, 2018

A little over a year ago, I found myself taking on a unique and exciting opportunity: Building a Python Platform team from the ground up. Despite its size, Wayfair gives teams a large degree of autonomy in deciding how they operate, which meant we had a true blank slate to…

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Director Dan Wulin Shares His Data Journey in New Podcast

Director Dan Wulin Shares His Data Journey in New Podcast

Rachel Kirkwood Rachel Kirkwood June 18th, 2018

No two people’s paths to Wayfair are exactly the same. On our data science team alone we employ physicists, neuroscientists, biophysical chemists, economists, mathematicians, statisticians, and more! Our data scientists are united by a love of data and a knack for problem solving, but each person has a different story……

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Algo Dev Day: A Community Service Hackathon

Algo Dev Day: A Community Service Hackathon

Avatar Wayfair May 16th, 2018

Earlier this month, the Pricing Algorithms team had a Community Service Hack Day here at our office, dedicating an afternoon to work on simple tools that could be used as part of any project. The day was an opportunity to fill any knowledge gaps in how our team overcomes common……

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Your Guide to Highlighting Projects at an Internal Engineering Fair

Your Guide to Highlighting Projects at an Internal Engineering Fair

Abrar Chaudhry Abrar Chaudhry May 11th, 2018

As an engineering leader, it can sometimes be a real struggle to make the work of your teams visible, especially in a problem space that doesn’t reside in traditional customer-facing areas. Without that visibility, it can be hard for team members to feel really great about what they’ve accomplished. To…

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Debunking the 4 Myths of a Career Transition from PhD to Data Science

Debunking the 4 Myths of a Career Transition from PhD to Data Science

Jen Wang Jen Wang May 2nd, 2018

Since I began my tenure at Wayfair as a data scientist, many PhD students and postdocs have reached out to ask for advice about the transition to data science in industry. After a fruitful collection of conversations, I’ve realized that there are popular misconceptions about what it means to be……

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Hack and Hunt! Tales from our Way Day Easter Egg Hackathon

Hack and Hunt! Tales from our Way Day Easter Egg Hackathon

Jessica Noble Jessica Noble April 25th, 2018

Something we often emphasize on our teams here at Wayfair is that ideas could and should come from everywhere. It is important that every individual, not just our business owners, product managers, and designers, are thinking about our work in the context of the overall the customer experience. When it…

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Why Monitoring for Success in your Supply Chain is More Important than Monitoring for Failure

Why Monitoring for Success in your Supply Chain is More Important than Monitoring for Failure

Sean Cavaliere Sean Cavaliere March 1st, 2018

The Supply Chain Engineering organization at Wayfair helps power, connect, and optimize differentiated shipping and delivery programs, consistently executes against customer promises, and maintains effective stewardship of the bottom line. We are responsible for every step in the supply chain from the moment you order a couch on our website,…

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Wayfair’s First Data Science Immersion Program

Katie Jones Katie Jones February 8th, 2018

As Data Science has become increasingly important to Wayfair’s success, so has the quest to find great people to join our team – individuals who are intelligently connected to their work and constantly learn, study, experiment, and create. Hiring for and branding our data science initiatives is merely one element……

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Automating Production Operations by Building a Smart Mini Fridge

Automating Production Operations by Building a Smart Mini Fridge

Evan Mitchell Evan Mitchell December 29th, 2017

In the Wayfair Network Operations Center (NOC) we wear a lot of hats: Code Deployers, Debuggers, Production Triage, and Incident Coordination, to name a few. Just this month we’ve responded to an average of 256 alerts a day and are staffed 24×7 with a team spanning two continents, servicing several…

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SRE Innovation Day & SRE Monthly Meetup Boston

SRE Innovation Day & SRE Monthly Meetup Boston

Jeff Dillon Jeff Dillon September 25th, 2017

Exaptation is an evolutionary term, where a trait that is evolved to serve one function subsequently serves another.  To quote Dave Snowden, “Dinosaurs did not throw themselves out of trees and hope to eventually evolve wings.”  Feathers were part of warmth, and maybe mating, but eventually this novel idea of…

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