YLD is a London consultancy that embeds cross-functional engineering and design teams with client organisations. Its stack spans AWS, Azure and GCP with Terraform, Kubernetes and Kafka, plus LLM fine-tuning techniques like LoRA, QLoRA and RLHF, pointing to delivery work in platform engineering and applied AI. Accelerating, senior-heavy engineering hiring and a Data Practice Lead search signal a push to build out a dedicated data practice around dbt and Spark.
Notable leadership hires: Data Practice Lead
YLD is a software engineering, product design and AI consultancy headquartered in London, founded in 2013 and privately held. It supplies bespoke cross-functional teams covering software engineering, architecture, DevOps, delivery, design, product and data science that work alongside client teams, including through pair programming and technical training. The company also specialises in design systems and serverless delivery. It employs 51–200 people and hires across the United Kingdom, Germany and Portugal.
YLD works across AWS, Azure and GCP with Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker, builds in Go, Python and TypeScript, and uses Kafka, dbt, Apache Spark and LLM techniques such as RAG, LoRA and RLHF.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and concentrated in senior engineering roles, with a Data Practice Lead also being recruited, across the United Kingdom, Germany and Portugal.
YLD is headquartered in London, England. The privately held consultancy was founded in 2013 and has 51–200 employees.
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