Month: April 2019

Categories
eCommerce Process SEO Troubleshooting

Improving SEO

(Decorist : 3/19-3/19)

Challenge

Received word that a number of key UXes weren’t rendering for SEO, likely impacting our rankings.

Action

  • Setup local emulation as Googlebot/Chrome 41.
  • Identified problem as having been ongoing since prior October (through git bisect.)
  • Introduced process for ensuring SEO/M compatability for releases going forward.

Results

  • Intro of process has engineers developing proficiency on key aspect of business: SEO.
Categories
Architecture AWS EC2 VR

Cutting Cloud Costs

(Decorist : 3/19-3/19)

Challenge

Given trends in 2018, AWS budget was projected to increase 92%.

Action

  • Worked with full-stack engineer on web team to tweak EC2 configs.
  • Iteratively introducing Reserved Instances to add to cost savings.
  • Worked with VR team to optimize the rendering pipeline.

As part of the VR work, we found that EC2 instances were running unneccessarily 24/7 so we adapted processes to more efficiently utilize those resources.

Results

  • Reduced AWS MoM spend by 40%.

 

Categories
3D Collaboration Process Troubleshooting VR

Salvaged PR Opportunity

(Decorist : 3/19-3/19)

Challenge

Marketing opportunity showcasing company’s proprietary shop-the-room modeling was four months behind and at-risk after key in-house designer departed and PR client was losing patience.

Action

I took ownership of project management, working with new designer and remote Pakistani VR engineering team, introducing a lightweight process (spreadsheet-based and daily 15m check-ins) in order to get backlog of shop-the-room models modeled and bundled into our VR (Unity-based) design app.

Results