10/27/20 | 44 min
Putting Data in Your Shopping Cart with Dustin Pearce, Vice President of Infrastructure at Instacart
Episode Overview
This episode features an interview with Dustin Pearce, Vice President of Infrastructure at Instacart. Dustin was previously the Director of Service Engineering at Slack, as well as the Head of Platform for Life360. In this episode, Dustin talks about the advances online shopping has made during the pandemic, where startups should place their priorities, the future of infrastructure, and much more. So please enjoy this conversation between Dustin Pearce, Vice President of Infrastructure at Instacart, and your host, Steve Hamm.
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Dustin PearceVice President of Infrastructure at Instacart
Dustin Pearce is Instacart’s first Vice President of Infrastructure, overseeing the company’s Infrastructure Engineering, Security, and Data Warehousing teams. Before joining Instacart, Pearce was the Director of Service Engineering at Slack where he scaled the company’s software infrastructure globally. While at Slack, Pearce founded the company’s SRE engineering and resilience engineering practices. Prior to Slack, Pearce was the Head of Platform at location technology company Life360, where he grew the engineering team tenfold.
Steve HammHost, Author, and Journalist
Steve Hamm is an award winning journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. He has been writing about the tech industry for more than 30 years, including journalism stints at BusinessWeek and the San Jose Mercury News. His book credits include Bangalore Tiger, The Race For Perfect, Making the World Work Better, Smart Machines, and soon to be released- The Rise of the Data Cloud.
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