Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, Us
Data Science Lead on Menu Personalization and Dynamic Pricing. Collaborated closely with Product, Design, Engineering, the Food and Operations teams, the molecular Science team, Analytics, and executive leadership to design and implement the initial technical solutions for Menu Recommendations and Frequency-Based Discounts. Designed various pricing models in collaboration with Finance. Designed various menu recommendation algorithms in collaboration with the Science Team, Food Team, and Engineering. Designed and implemented Cibo, a production micro-service built on top of Django to serve personalized menus and prices to our customers.Technical Lead on project Blackbird, a very high priority initiative led by the CEO, to measure and improve operational efficiency. Rapidly designed and implemented a custom inventory management solution after arduously working through complex operational requirements, accounting requirements, executive reporting requirements, and intensely dirty data. Generated product requirements and evaluated inventory management solutions, workforce management solutions, and Enterprise Resource Planning solutions (ERP's). Solely responsible for the vast majority of technical implementation for a highly customized ERP integration. This included eatsa's first production micro-service which was built in Python on top of the serverless framework.Significantly improved accuracy and removed volatility in the customer-facing Order Delivery ETA provided to customers once they've purchased food through the mobile apps.Collaborated tightly with the analytics team to rapidly stand up the initial analytics infrastructure. Provided a centralized data warehouse to correlate and analyze information across a mix of proprietary and third party data sources across the engineering, marketing,