Brian Gill
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Brian Gill is from Seattle, Washington, United States. Brian works in the following industries: "Internet", "Retail", "Hospitality", and "Leisure, Travel & Tourism". Brian is currently Chief Product Officer at Nordstrom, located in Greater Seattle Area. In Brian's previous role as a Board Member at Vacasa, Brian worked in Portland, Oregon Area until Jun 2020. Prior to joining Vacasa, Brian was a SVP Technology at Nordstrom and held the position of SVP Technology at Seattle, S.F., Denver, Chicago. Prior to that, Brian was a CTO & Chief Scientist at Hotwire, based in Seattle, S.F., Kiev, Guadalajara, Gurgaon from Aug 2014 to Apr 2017. Brian started working as VP, Technology at Expedia in Bellevue, Montreal, London, Budapest, Beijing, Shenzen, Gurgaon in Mar 2011. From Nov 2008 to Mar 2011, Brian was Sr. Director, Expedia Web Services at Expedia, based in Bellevue, London, Budapest, Szeged. Prior to that, Brian was a GPM, Director of Technology at Expedia, based in Bellevue, WA from Apr 2005 to Nov 2008. Brian started working as Developer/Program Manager at GiftCertificates.com in Greater New York City Area & Seattle WA in Nov 1999.
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As SVP I ran a team of 700 building products for all the customer facing technologies at Nordstrom.
As CTO, I led Hotwire’s technology and data science teams on a complete re-architecture of the technology stack to a cloud hosted micro-service architecture to enable faster time to market, more responsive systems, and a foundation for future growth of the brand. Over two years we reimagined nearly every part of the architecture, while delivering on aggressive product roadmaps. We transformed our front end architecture to client based javascript using the AngularJS framework, enabling a release when ready model, which increased customer conversion. All new micro services were built cloud ready and hosted on docker containers using a common delivery pipeline. At the same time I led the transformation of our data warehouse to an event driven architecture that could respond in realtime to actions by customers, using Kafka, Storm and Spark. We moved from using our own hosted Oracle and Exadata infrastructure to a “write once read many” architecture in the cloud, using S3 and EMR, which provided greater resiliency to upstream changes and greater scale. I led the data science team in moving from a rules engine based revenue management system to a runtime machine learning system that was capable of unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning techniques such as a multi-armed bandits. This led to increased revenue and conversion via our shopping funnel and recommendation engines
I led the core services for all of Expedia Inc. We built new services for Revenue Optimization, Geography, Natural Language Processing, Global Payments, Order Management, Loyalty Programs, Coupons and Web Services. I fostered a rigorous culture of quality enforcement, with hard measures on quality, uptime, and latency, such as speed KPIs and transactional success rate. The core lodging system was a large scale distributed compute architecture calculating a quarter of a million hotel prices per second. I led the building of a global order processing system that managed the state and transactional flow for every line of business and brand, as well as building a globally enabled payments platform. In addition we built free text search and natural language processing, for sorting and pricing, and services for fraud, and many more functions.
I led a team to deliver a diversity of public facing APIs for search, trip & itinerary, and user services. We launched Expedia’s “Meta business” with a high through put set of search APIs utilized by Kayak, TripAdvisor and Google.