Engineers @ Optimizely

The weather is crisp 🍁 and Grace Hopper Celebration is just around the corner. This year things are a little different. For many of us…

Introduction

Hi! I’m Gauri Dhawan, a graduate student at NYU studying computer science. This summer I interned at Optimizely as a software engineering…

This summer I was one of nine remote interns at Optimizely. Due to COVID-19 none of us were able to come into the office, but despite the…

My internship project on how I built a real-time data pipeline to track customers’ usage telemetry data of our data export products.

As a developer using feature flags while building Optimizely, I had to switch back and forth cutting and pasting between the application…

Here is part 2 of my hack week project the Optimizely Go SDK C Wrapper. If you haven’t already I recommended reading part 1. The project…

At Optimizely, we deploy a large amount of our code behind feature flags because it gives us the benefits of shortening our release cycle…

Hack Week

Optimizely’s Quality Engineering team was born on January 1st, 2018. It’s been quite a journey since that first day. To mark the…

Feature flags allow you to slowly rollout a feature gradually rather than doing a risky big bang launch and are extremely helpful when…

In this second installment in the series we’ll outline how we’ve modeled our Optimizely SDK implementation as a light-weight dependency…

Observations from an experiment on working together

This is part two of a series on Stats Accelerator. In the first part, we explained the when, why, and how of Stats Accelerator. In today’s…

This post is a case study of how we use Airflow to implement data workflow automation at Optimizely. It’s adapted from a talk I gave at SF…

How Optimizely uses Multi-Armed Bandits to speed up discovery and increase impact.

“Eat, Sleep, Optimize, Repeat”

I’m happy to announce that Optimizely is launching, for the third time, I/Own It — a boot camp scholarship and internship program that…

I went from working night shifts as a security guard to being an application backend software engineer in a few whirlwind years.

Tell us about yourself! What’s your name, what do you do at Optimizely, and how long have you been here?