Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed a Cambrian explosion of AI development, with Generative and Agentic AI capturing stakeholders’ attention. AI/ML Engineers are delivering real business value by intermixing LLMs and agentic systems with traditional machine learning systems. It’s been an era of rapid prototyping and quick integrations. Teams have adopted different approaches - each unlocking new potential, but…
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27 Feb
16 Feb
LLMs, MCPs, RAG. There are lots of acronyms in the AI space, but what do they all mean? Dear reader, despite being a software engineer who works in the machine learning space, I confess there was a time I wasn’t really sure. Fortunately, with the financial support of Deliveroo’s Women-in-Tech Employee Resource Group, I took the Ardan Labs Building AI-Powered…
6 Nov 2025
Hey everyone, I’m Kartik Visvanathan, an Engineering Manager at Deliveroo, based in India. I joined the team in 2023, and it’s been an exciting ride ever since. I’ve built some truly impactful products here, including an advertising platform that we scaled into a profitable business, and a corporate orders product that touched every part of our systems—from restaurants to delivery…
12 Sept 2025
At Deliveroo, we’re always refining how we scale - especially when it comes to managing compute costs in the cloud. After optimising our Amazon ECS workloads with Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, we saw an opportunity to push further using EC2 Spot Instances, which offer up to 90% savings compared to On-Demand prices. But Spot comes with challenges: Their availability…
2 Jul 2025
Enter Deliveroo’s ML Platform For the past three years, we have been building Deliveroo’s Machine Learning Platform, or the ML Platform as we like to call it. The ML Platform boosts our model-building and deployment capabilities by standardising ML workflows, streamlining the end-to-end development process and simplifying model deployment. Besides saving software engineering effort through centralising tooling, the ML Platform…
24 Mar 2025
Could you introduce yourself and your role at Deliveroo? I’m Antonio, a Senior Staff Engineer at Deliveroo. I have been with Deliveroo for six and a half years, overseeing the entire New Verticals domain as well as the Catalogues space, as an Individual Contributor (IC). Can you tell us a little bit about your career journey into engineering and how…
13 Mar 2025
The Women in Tech Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Deliveroo was officially founded in 2023, and we are proud to represent an amazing community of female employees who identify as working in Tech at Deliveroo. This includes, but is not limited to, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Designers, and Product Managers and we also welcome those who want to move into…
20 Feb 2025
Could you introduce yourself and your role at Deliveroo? I’m Gina, I’m a Senior Engineering Manager at Deliveroo. I lead our Consumer Experience group in our New Verticals engineering team, and I’ve been at Deliveroo for five years. Could you walk us through your path to engineering management and what brought you to Deliveroo? I studied information systems at university…
6 Feb 2025
Experimentation at Deliveroo has significantly boosted our innovation as a company. It has allowed us to explore new ideas, protected us from unforeseen challenges by preventing wasted time and resources on ineffective initiatives, and promoted intellectual honesty by validating our assumptions. Over time, the breadth of our experimentation programme, our tooling and our culture have undergone significant development. Each year,…
9 Oct 2023
Could you introduce yourself and your role at Deliveroo? I’m Prachi, and I joined Deliveroo in August last year. I’m located in India, and I bring with me about 10 years of work experience. Initially, I joined Deliveroo as a Senior Software Engineer, and I’m thrilled to share that I’ve recently transitioned into the role of an Engineering Manager within…