Staples. Experimentation platform and ML runtimes for an office retailer.
talks
Functional Conf
Building an Experimentation Platform in Clojure
Root Conf
Building a PostgreSQL cluster
Staples is one of the world's largest office retail companies.
We worked with Staples on their recommendation engine, experimentation platform, as well as several other products, over a period of 4 years.
We built Staples' highly available experimentation platform with automatic failovers. The platform incorporated research from white papers from Google, Microsoft and Netflix.
We also built and maintained machine learning runtimes for Staples' email recommendation engine.
The experimentation platform included a simulation testing harness and framework that we wrote using Causatum, Simulant and Datomic.
Yet another project involved orchestrating a web crawler and scraper that would deal with unstructured datasets on the web and provide insights into categorisation as well as pricing on a daily basis.