We’re continuing the Expedia Group Arrivals series with a warm welcome to Archana Arunkumar, Senior Vice President, Platform as a Product. Archana, welcome again to Expedia Group (EG)! We’re thrilled to have you on board. For our readers, please could you tell us a bit about yourself and your career journey?  Thanks for the warm […]

Kari Grooms | Senior Mobile Engineer, iOS It’s an exciting time to be doing native app development at Expedia Group! We’re going all-in on new tech – SwiftUI and Combine for iOS and Jetpack Compose for Android – to build a new native platform, not just for our own apps, but for external customer apps […]

Rick Fast | Senior Vice President, Experience Engineering Think about your last trip. Was your flight on time, did you get rerouted or encounter a challenge and wish you had a companion alongside you to smooth the way? At Expedia Group, we’re travelers who are passionate about seeing the world and having a great experience […]

Nicole Grieble | Director, Software Development Engineering My career journey at Expedia Group (EG) has centered around one of EG’s core values – “Choose Fearlessly.” It’s something I do every day, but there were a few key moments where doing so helped define the engineer and leader I am today.  My journey at EG started […]

Rohan Sebastian | Product Manager III As part of Expedia Group’s mission to power global travel for everyone, everywhere, the company embarked on a journey to build the Open World platform. Open World, our new purpose-built technology platform, was created for partners of all sizes to leverage and configure products and services needed to succeed […]

Aaron Burgess | Senior Director, Head of Content Design What’s in a name? A lot, it turns out. Earlier in the decade, being a content strategist in Expedia Group’s XD (Experience Design) team meant that you focused on the product experience for one specific part of the company. You were small and scrappy — sometimes a team […]

On this International Women’s Day, I mark 20 years of working in the software industry. Two decades, 20 years, 240 months. It’s been an amazing journey, but I am tired. I am angry as well, although the fiery rage I felt earlier in my career has given way to a slow, controlled burn.  There’s so much work […]

Yulia Pichugina | Software Developer Apprentice By the age of 31, I’ve lived in three different countries, obtained two university degrees, learned two foreign languages and met the love of my life. Generally, I felt quite happy but only one thing was missing from my picture of a perfect life: a job that would be […]

2020 raised a lot of questions and discussions on the topic of Inclusion & Diversity, a topic that proved to be near and dear to Expedians. But how do we really make a difference and drive change in the workplace?   The 2020 Inclusion & Diversity Analytics Hackathon is one initiative that brought together teams and individuals in EG who wanted to drive positive, proactive and practical action to improve Expedia […]

As we build up to the Women in Technology World Series 2020, taking place 16-20th November 2020, we caught up with Alix, a Senior Product Manager and one of our keynote speakers who will be a part of a fireside chat at the event. Read on to find out more about a typical day as […]