Dévorer: Redefining the Campus Dining Experience with AI and Computer Vision

Challenge

Dévorer, a fast-growing company creating next-gen dining driven by data needed to accelerate development and stabilise its infrastructure to support increasing product usage and customer demand. While the vision and roadmap were clear, the team lacked the hands-on engineering capacity to execute quickly without overloading internal resources.

The key challenge was twofold:

• Ship product features faster without compromising code quality
• Build reliable, scalable infrastructure to support growth and deployments

Dévorer was not looking for long hiring cycles or junior experimentation — they needed senior engineers who could integrate seamlessly, take ownership, and deliver from day one.

Yotewo was engaged to provide immediate, senior-level execution with minimal onboarding friction.

Outcome

Yotewo placed a Full-Stack Developer and a DevOps Engineer, both aligned with Dévorer’s tech stack, delivery pace, and product goals.

• Accelerated feature delivery across frontend and backend
• Improved deployment reliability and environment stability
• Introduced structured CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure best practices
• Reduced operational bottlenecks for the internal team
• Enabled Dévorer to focus on product strategy and customer growth

With Yotewo’s support, Dévorer strengthened both product execution and infrastructure resilience without committing to lengthy recruitment cycles.

From Targeted Hiring to Execution Partnership

Phase 1: Fast Alignment & Onboarding

Yotewo onboarded a senior Full-Stack Developer who quickly aligned with Dévorer’s existing codebase, product roadmap, and internal workflows. In parallel, a DevOps Engineer reviewed the current infrastructure, deployment process, and reliability risks. Both specialists were operational within days, integrating directly into Dévorer’s delivery rhythm.

Phase 2: Full-Stack Product Delivery

With alignment complete, the Full-Stack Developer took ownership of end-to-end feature development across frontend and backend. Work focused on delivering customer-facing functionality while strengthening the underlying application logic. Key contributions included:

• Shipping new product features aligned with the roadmap
• Improving existing frontend and backend flows
• Addressing technical debt to improve maintainability
• Collaborating closely with product stakeholders to prioritise impact

This phase significantly increased delivery velocity while maintaining product quality.

Phase 3: Infrastructure, DevOps & Reliability

Once product development stabilised, the DevOps Engineer focused on strengthening Dévorer’s infrastructure and deployment processes to support scale and reliability. Key outcomes included:

• Implementation of structured CI/CD pipelines
• Improved deployment reliability and environment consistency
• Infrastructure optimisation for scalability and security
• Monitoring and operational visibility to reduce downtime

This ensured that faster product delivery was supported by a robust and scalable technical foundation.

By separating product execution and infrastructure ownership across senior specialists, Yotewo enabled Dévorer to scale confidently — improving both speed and system reliability without the friction of long-term hiring.