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Pierre Roussel

Jan 11, 2022

How (and why) we built our own headless CMS

A headless CMS (content management system), is one that provides APIs to retrieve…

(Re)introducing thredUP Engineering

It’s been a minute, so let’s get reacquainted

Design Team Holiday Offsite

Design team goes offline for the first time in two years!

ThredUP Design Team

Oct 27, 2021

Hello Again! From the Design Team

Dan DeMeyere

Mar 22, 2018

What does a VP of Engineering do?

When people ask me what a VP of Engineering does, I like to reference the analogy Mark Suster used…

Why I work at thredUP

This is my first ever blog post on the Internet. I am just going to express what I feel. I could have written about some technical post to do this and do that. Today, while taking shower something just stuck me about the thing that excites me after my morning starts. It was “going to work…

Brandon Doran

Sep 1, 2016

Caching Assets Long Term with Webpack

I recently converted a Gulp + Browserify build for a large production app over to Webpack. While there were many pitfalls and a few failed production deploys along the way, it all came together in the end. One of the biggest sources of frustration was getting long…

Going Beyond Syntax

Being one of a few mobile developers at thredUP, other engineers are often horrified looking at the supposedly “bloated and wordy” syntax that make up Objective-C and Cocoa (Touch). Yes, our method declarations are long and there are a scary amount of @ symbols, but inside lies a powerful…

Ira Torf

Feb 4, 2016

10 Steps for Effective Cross-Client/Browser HTML Emails

When I first started here at thredUP, one of my primary responsibilities as a junior engineer was to handle the html coding and building of marketing emails. Although not considered to be the most glamorous job in the biz, it was made…