Tom Shivitz | Principal, Technical Product Manager, Brand Expedia Introduction If you live or work in the City of Seattle, you may have heard or have directly experienced how expensive it is to live in the city. The Census Bureau’s American Community Survey indicates roughly 48,000 households in Seattle (renters and owners) are spending half […]

Wenji Zhang | Data Scientist in Seattle The story started in 2017. I was a last year Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University. With excitement and uncertainty in mind, I was eager to find out what future is waiting for me. During a casual talk with my lab alumni who is a data scientist working […]

Erin Evans On June 14th Expedia Group hosted a live, interactive DeepRacer experience at Expedia’s headquarters sponsored by AWS. DeepRacer is a 1/8th scale self-propelled model race car.  The objective of the DeepRacer event was to program the DeepRacer to complete a lap of a model race car track in the shortest amount of time. […]

Hitesh Gupta | Sr. Technical Product Manager in Gurgaon “We at Expedia Group want to be a place where Exceptional People who share our passion for technology and travel want to do their Best Work“ I have played multiple roles in my last 3 years of experience with Expedia Group ranging from Program Manager to […]

From testing new technologies to launching the Trip Boards feature, the Vrbo mobile app team takes you behind the scenes of the brand refresh in part two of this series. Read on to see how the Vrbo team is helping people travel better together with the updated mobile app.  (Read about the web app team […]

What does it take to pull off a major brand refresh? A whole team of engineers, designers, marketers, and more! The Vrbo engineering team has been hard at work coding and testing to launch the new and improved Vrbo web app to coincide with the brand reveal. Three Vrbo engineers are detailing what went on […]

Gianluca Della Corte | Systems Architect, Hotels.com in London Originally published on the Hotels.com Technology blog On January 9th Amazon announced a new database service called Amazon DocumentDB that they described as a “fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads”. Is Amazon DocumentDB a real MongoDB? While offering a MongoDB-compatible API, DocumentDB […]

Amanda McArthur | Talent Advisor, Expedia Group in Bellevue, WA Product, Technical Product, and Program Management. If you are in the product world, you know the struggle is real. Companies (and sometimes even teams) have different definitions for each. It can be difficult to understand what roles are a strong fit given your background and […]

After learning more about what our UX Research Team does, you may start to think their jobs resemble that of undercover spies. Between the two-way mirrors, eye tracking glasses, and emotion recognition software, it’s safe to say they get to work with some pretty cool technology. This group plays a crucial part in product development […]

Toby Willis | Software Engineer in Test II in Seattle, WA Did you know there are over 1 Billion people with disabilities in the World? …that’s like more than 15% of the population. I’m learning these stats because I lost my vision due to a degenerative retina condition known as Leber Congenital Amaurosis. You can also […]