Nishant Roy | Engineering Manager, Ads Serving Platform Intro & Background The Pinterest ads serving platform delivered >$2.5 billion in ad spend in 2021 from thousands of advertisers. Our customer operations team receives 600+ tickets on average every month from advertisers who are looking to understand their performance on our platform. One of…

Chanheum (Sean) Cho | ML Engineer, Ads Intelligence; Ruixin Qiang |ML Engineer, Ads Intelligence; Keshava Subramanya |Engineering Manager, Ads Intelligence Introduction Understanding the size of the potential audience of an ad is an important consideration for an advertiser. It enables advertisers to estimate the total population who might be interested in…

Kevin Lin | Software Engineer, Storage and Caching Introduction Pinterest’s distributed caching system, built on top of open source technologies memcached and mcrouter, is a critical component of the production infrastructure stack. …

Tim Koh | Software Engineer, Core Product Serving Infra; George Wu | (former) Software Engineer, Core Product Serving Infra Introduction Embedding-based retrieval is a core center piece of our recommendations engine at Pinterest. We support a myriad of use cases, from retrieval based on content similarity to learned retrieval. …

Ping-Min Lin | Software Engineer, Logging Platform At Pinterest, the Logging Platform team maintains the backbone of data ingestion infrastructure that ingests terabytes of data per day. When building the services powering these pipelines, it is extremely important that we build efficient systems considering how widespread and deep in the…

Jeremy King | Sr Vice Presidente, ingeniería This article was originally published in English. Read the English version here. Hace dos años, estaba terminando mi primer año en Pinterest como Vicepresidente Sénior. Nuestras oficinas cerraron y el trabajo y la vida, como los conocíamos, cambiaron de golpe. Al adaptarnos a…

Maisy Samuelson | Head of Trust & Safety Product “Inch by inch, row by row, I’m gonna make this garden grow” — Garden Song by Peter, Paul & Mary Since I started working on Trust & Safety four years ago, the team has grown quickly and learned a lot about…

Jeremy King | Senior Vice President, Engineering Two years ago, as I was closing in on my first annual “Pinniversary” as the Chief of Engineering at Pinterest, our offices closed, and work (read: life) as we knew it changed abruptly. As we all adapted to the drastic changes around us…