Building an on-demand fulfillment engine is hard

1 · Instacart · May 22, 2019, 7:56 p.m.
A Q&A with Kevin Henrikson & JJ Zhuang, our VPs of Fulfillment EngineeringKevin Henrikson and JJ Zhuang go together like PB&J — they’re the engineering “odd couple” that leads Instacart’s fulfillment engineering organization. Before they joined us, they cofounded Acompli, the email productivity app that was acquired by Microsoft in 2014. Acompli’s mobile app was relaunched as Outlook Mobile six weeks after the acquisition.Now at Instacart, they’re building another type of productivity product. A...