Rick Fast

Senior Vice President, Platform Engineering at Expedia Group

Greater Chicago Area

About

Experience

  • Expedia Group (10 yrs 8 mos)
    • Senior Vice President, Platform Engineering
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

      Lead a worldwide engineering team that builds Expedia Group's platform technology leveraged by thousands of engineers globally, including Data, AI/ML, Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure, Edge, API, Experience Platform and Developer Experience.

    • Senior Vice President, Consumer Technology
      Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

      I lead a global engineering team responsible for all customer-facing websites and mobile applications for Expedia Group's B2C brands, including Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Travelocity, Orbitz, and others. I oversee product engineering for user experiences, UX platform, design system technology, and core services driving traveler experience such as Search, Trips, and Personalization.

    • Vice President, Engineering
      Jun 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Responsible for product engineering for Expedia.com + Portfolio brands (Orbitz, Travelocity, etc) sites and mobile applications.

  • Instructor/Author at O'Reilly
    2015 - 2017 · 2 yrs

    Video author/instructor for O'Reilly Media/Infinite Skills for a number of courses, including Learning Docker and Developing Ops-Friendly Microservices.

  • Sr. Principal Engineer at Orbitz Worldwide
    Dec 2013 - Nov 2015 · 2 yrs

    Senior engineer + architect responsible for evolving Orbitz Worldwide's landing page platform into a modern microservices-based architecture. Drove the work that made Orbitz one of the first adopters of full CI/CD leveraging Docker and modern container schedulers.

  • Software Engineer at CDK Global
    Sep 2012 - Nov 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Lead Engineer at HERE Technologies
    Aug 2010 - Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Lead engineer in the Core Map division, responsible for building map editing software and services as well as automated feature detection using video + LiDAR telemetry.