Christine Mathiesen | Software Development Intern in London Week Zero Nervous is an understatement when I think back on my frazzled emotions during my first few weeks at Expedia Group. I was going into a year-long placement at one of the largest travel companies in the world with zero professional experience and a lot to […]

Given the strong tech hub in Seattle, it was a no-brainer for Joel Herrick to move up after studying computer science at Oregon State University. A lover of tech, the outdoors and adventure, Expedia Group Seattle is the ideal place for Joel to grow his software development career. Find out what he’s working on and […]

A few weeks ago, 20+ Expedians joined forces from London, Austin and Seattle to attend the biggest Data event in the world – the Tableau Conference.  Ayo Taiwo – Director, Business Intelligence Expedia Group and David Pires – Sr Manager, Data Visualisation Expedia Group were among the lucky Expedians who attended the conference and have […]

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 […]