Episode 21

Putting Data in Your Shopping Cart with Dustin Pearce, Vice President of Infrastructure at Instacart

Guests: Dustin Pearce and Steve Hamm

Guests

Dustin Pearce

Dustin Pearce

Vice 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 Hamm

Steve Hamm

Host, 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.