Tech & Innovation
Key Contributors: Youming Luo, Andrew Tanner, Matas Sriubiskis, Sylvia Lin, Sikun Zhu, Lei Li, Xiao Zhou Introduction Caper is Instacart’s AI-powered smart cart that provides customers with a fast, seamless, and intuitive shopping experience. We achieve this through computer vision and multi-sensor fusion to power accurate product recognition and effortless checkout. Delivering this experience requires Caper’s AI models to understand what truly happens in stores...
Feb 17, 2026
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Tech & Innovation
In today’s world of data breaches and privacy concerns, every measure you can take to protect your data is another brick in the wall defending you. At Instacart , no matter how confident we feel...
Aug 18, 2021
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I’m very excited to announce the release of Coil 1.0 . Coil is a Kotlin-first image loading library for Android built on top of Kotlin Coroutines. It simplifies loading images from the Internet (or any...
Aug 18, 2021
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A Q&A with Dusty Pearce, our first VP of Infrastructure How did you get into Infrastructure Engineering? I started out as a software developer and grew into infrastructure over time. My last few companies have...
Aug 18, 2021
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What do you do? I’m a user researcher at Instacart and I work on the shopper and customer experience for Pickup. I love talking to our users on both sides because it gives me the...
Aug 18, 2021
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Today we launched Instacart Meals — a new grocery meals product that powers easy ordering, delivery and pickup of made-to-order food. Right now, Instacart Meals is live as a pilot at select Publix stores in...
Aug 18, 2021
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What happens when you fold a customer into your last mile? By: Kevin Henrikson I’m driving with my family from San Mateo to Juniper Lake for a camping trip. I need to stock up my...
Aug 18, 2021
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Designing a new product and shopping experience from the ground up. Contributors: Senior Product Designers Andressa Bougleux and Dan Shilov Why pickup makes sense Imagine: It’s late in the afternoon when Carol realizes she forgot...
Aug 18, 2021
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A Q&A with Leho Nigul, our first VP of Engineering, Catalog, and Tools Instacart has the largest grocery catalog in the world , with nearly 5 million unique products, spanning over 25,000 locations across North...
Aug 18, 2021
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A Q&A with Vikaram Gupta, Instacart’s Vice President of Ads Engineering We’re excited to announce that we just welcomed Vik Gupta to Instacart as our first-ever Vice President Engineering, Advertising. Vik comes to us from...
Aug 18, 2021
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