Austin Gill
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E-Commerce / Retail Technology

Digital Grocery & Curbside Commerce

From the first item in the cart to curbside pickup: dependable commerce for everyday life.

COMPANYH-E-B Digital
PERIODMay 2018 — Jun 2020
CONTEXTProfessional engineering work
Illustrative product preview of Digital Grocery & Curbside Commerce
Illustrative product preview. Independently recreated interface with fictional sample data; not an actual production capture or an independently owned commercial product.
THE ENGINEERING STORY

From complexity
to capability.

The challenge

Keep catalog, inventory, orders, and fulfillment aligned across a customer-facing grocery experience.

Engineering contributions

  • Developed customer-facing features with Python, Django, React, and JavaScript.
  • Built backend services for catalog and order workflows.
  • Integrated store inventory and fulfillment services.
  • Improved synchronization and catalog performance, supporting automated tests and production releases.

Performance & reliability

Inventory update delays decreased from 12 to 7 minutes. Average catalog page load time decreased from 3.1 to 2.4 seconds.

REPORTED ENGINEERING OUTCOME2.4saverage catalog page load

Results are specific to this workstream and drawn from the supplied professional history. Preview interface data is illustrative.

Tools behind the work

PythonDjangoReactJavaScriptREST APIsSQL

Explore the reconstructed interface

The visual demonstration shows how these capabilities can be presented. It uses local sample data and does not connect to employer systems.

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NEXT ENGINEERING STORY

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