AD/01 is a tech studio within Ahold Delhaize focused on modernizing food retail operations across Europe. The stack—Kotlin, Python, Java, Kafka, Azure, Kubernetes, GraphQL—combined with active adoption of Databricks and NoSQL databases while replacing SQL, signals a shift toward real-time data pipelines and distributed systems. The 50/50 split between mid and senior engineers, plus six data hires, reflects a move beyond legacy retail infrastructure toward analytics-driven product development.
AD/01, founded in 2024 as a tech studio partnership within Ahold Delhaize, builds digital and operational solutions for food retail chains across Europe. The company operates from Bucharest with 201–500 employees, primarily hiring engineering and data roles in Romania. Active projects span CI/CD automation, data product architecture, IoT data enrichment, energy management, and disaster recovery planning—typical of a retail operator modernizing supply chain and customer-facing systems. Core pain points include scaling capacity, centralizing fragmented data processing, modernizing database infrastructure, and strengthening cyber resilience.
AD/01 uses Kotlin, Python, Java, Kafka, Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and GraphQL. The company is actively adopting Databricks and NoSQL databases (Azure Cosmos DB, MariaDB) while phasing out SQL.
Current projects include CI/CD pipeline development, data product architecture design, IoT data extraction and enrichment, energy management use cases, disaster recovery planning, and database infrastructure modernization for operational resilience.
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