Blogs
Our blogs cover everything about us, our teams, and our technologies. There are detailed expositions of day-to-day development challenges across our broad tech landscape, as well as windows on our people, our culture, and the opportunities we offer
Elizabeth Theis is Ocado Technology’s Vice President of Construction and Installation in North America. Her challenges range from rapid growth to creating change in an industry that isn’t accustomed to it…
Jay, Regional Lead Field Engineer, ex military, is helping to grow Ocado Technology’s international smart warehouse portfolio. He reflects on leaving service and engineering in the private sector.
Mel Wileman, Global Training Manager at Ocado Technology, explains our commitment to training our operations engineers, and a vision of opportunity for everyone.
The keys to a safe workplace? Partnership and culture.
A healthy people-culture is one of the most important aspects of staying safe at work. HSE Director Gerry Mulholland explains how we are taking our HSE function to the next level.
Our operations teams maintain advanced warehouse automation systems, including robots! Engineering Operations Trainer Terry O’Neill lifts the lid on the training we give to every new joiner.
Wayne Curry, Senior Development & Project Manager at Ocado Technology, defines a special Controls Engineer; custom made for Ocado Technology operations.
Robust wireless communications are critical to the operation of our smart warehouses. This article explains our approach to ensuring we can talk to our bots anytime, anywhere.
How do you trial a vast platform that doesn’t exist yet? Isabel tells the story - a culture of innovation that allowed us to bring Ocado Smart Platform to life, starting with a chocolate bar.
How do we make sure the ecommerce experience is right for everyone, wherever and whoever they are? Keeping the user experience great and our solutions accessible is an interesting challenge for our UX teams.
What do running and Product Management have in common? Turns out, quite a lot. Matthew lists five ways in which his hobby as a runner helps him be a better Product Manager… And vice versa.
Java helps us develop intelligent systems and high-performance applications serving our business from webshop to warehouses. Matthew Cornford explores the role of Java in our techstack and why it’s still so important.
Ocado Technology and partners have been pioneering a collaborative robot that can proactively assist humans in maintenance tasks. Dr Graham Deacon describes the amazing The SecondHands project.
Lockdown demands mean that young people’s digital skills could fall between the cracks. Our Code for scheme Life and the Rapid Router game offers a free, fun way of teaching coding at home. No experience is required!
