Molly Vorwerck
Molly Vorwerck is the Eng Blog Lead and a senior program manager on Uber's Tech Brand Team, responsible for overseeing the company's technical narratives and content production. In a previous life, Molly worked in journalism and public relations. In her spare time, she enjoys scouring record stores for Elvis Presley records, reading and writing fiction, and watching The Great British Baking Show.
Engineering Blog Articles
Fostering a Culture of Sponsorship: Introducing Uber’s Engineering and Sponsorship Development Program
Designed by Uber's Office of the CTO, the Engineering Sponsorship and Development Program (ESDP) pairs participants with sponsors and provides an opportunity to hone technical leadership skills.
Celebrating International Women’s Day: Meet the Women Building Uber’s Global Platform
To celebrate International Women's Day, we spoke with women from across the company whose work helps deliver impactful experiences for Uber users worldwide.
Year in Review: 2019 Highlights from the Uber Engineering Blog
To cap off 2019, the Uber Engineering Blog editors present a selection of our most popular articles covering a range of technical topics, from AI to mobile development.
Uber Joins LF Presto Foundation to Advance Open Source Analytics
Uber is honored to join the Presto Foundation, a new initiative hosted by the Linux Foundation, to advance the open source data processing community.
Science at Uber: Innovating Across Digital and Physical Worlds
Waleed Kadous, Principal Engineer at Uber, enjoys tackling technical challenges that bridge the digital and physical duality of Uber's problem space.
Advancing AI: A Conversation with Jeff Clune, Senior Research Manager at Uber
We sat down with Jeff Clune, Senior Research Manager, to talk about his work in AI, journey to Uber, and Presidential Early Career Achievement in Science and Engineering (PECASE) award.
Science at Uber: Making a Real-world Impact with Data Science
Suzette Puente, Uber Data Science Manager, shares how she applies her graduate work in statistics to forecast traffic patterns and generate better routes.
Science at Uber: Powering Uber’s Ridesharing Technologies Through Mapping
Dawn Woodard, Director of Data Science, considers travel time prediction one of Uber's most interesting mapping problems.
Science at Uber: Bringing Research to the Roads
Uber Principal Engineer Waleed Kadous discusses how we assess technologies our teams can leverage to improve the reliability and performance of our platform.
Showcasing the Technologies and Teams from Uber’s European Engineering Sites
During our 2019 Uber European Technology Showcase, technical teams across the company discussed how we build products that drive safe and reliable transportation.
Visualizing City Cores with H3, Uber’s Open Source Geospatial Indexing System
In a selection of presentations delivered at a June 2019 Uber meetup, we discuss how to use H3, our open source hexagonal indexing system, to facilitate the granular mining of large geospatial data sets.
No Coding Required: Training Models with Ludwig, Uber’s Open Source Deep Learning Toolbox
Uber AI's Piero Molino discusses Ludwig's origin story, common use cases, and how others can get started with this powerful deep learning framework built on top of TensorFlow.
Uber Joins Urban Computing Foundation, Contributes Kepler.gl as Organization’s First Hosted Project
In addition to joining the Urban Computing Foundation, Uber is contributing Kepler.gl, an open source geospatial analysis tool, as the organization's first hosted project.
Uber Open Source: Catching Up with Celina Ward, M3 Observability Engineer
Celina Ward discusses her journey to engineering, what it was like to present at Kubecon 2018, and what’s next for M3, Uber's open source metrics platform.
Data Science at Scale: A Conversation with Uber’s Fran Bell
We spoke to Data Science Director Fran Bell about machine learning at Uber and what she finds most challenging—and rewarding—about her work.
Mitigating Risk in a Three-Sided Marketplace: A Conversation with Trupti Natu and Neel Mouleeswaran...
We sat down with a risk strategy manager and a risk engineer to discuss how they build solutions to minimize risk in the Uber Eats three-sided marketplace.
Uber Open Source: Catching Up with Fritz Obermeyer and Noah Goodman from the Pyro...
We spoke with Fritz Obermeyer and Noah Goodman, Pyro project co-leads, about the potential of open source AI software at Uber and beyond.
Year in Review: 2018 Highlights from the Uber Engineering Blog
Our editors spotlight some of the year's most popular articles, from an overview of our Big Data platform to a first-person account of an engineer's immigrant journey.
Open Source at Uber: Meet Alex Sergeev, Horovod Project Lead
We sat down with Horovod project lead, Alex Sergeev, to discuss his path to open source and what most excites him about the future of Uber's distributed deep learning framework.
NVIDIA: Accelerating Deep Learning with Uber’s Horovod
Horovod, Uber's open source distributed deep learning system, enables NVIDIA to scale model training from one to eight GPUs for their self-driving sensing and perception technologies.
