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The world's largest foodservice company builds its core software in Colombo. Meet Sysco LABS

Sysco LABS Sri Lanka works on the same codebase and sprint cycles as Sysco's teams in Texas.

$81.4B
Sysco revenue
#54
on the Fortune 500
730,000+
customer locations served

Sysco Corporation is the world's largest foodservice distributor. Fortune 500 rank: 54. $81.4 billion in revenue. 75,000+ employees. 337 distribution centers across 10 countries. 730,000+ customer locations globally.

The engineering arm

Sysco LABS Sri Lanka is the innovation and engineering arm of Sysco Corporation. Its engineering teams in Colombo work alongside counterparts in Austin and Houston, Texas, building the software that powers the entire foodservice journey: sourcing, merchandising, warehouse operations, ordering, pricing algorithms, ecommerce and last mile delivery.

Same codebase, same standards

Sysco LABS Sri Lanka operates on the same codebase, the same sprint cycles and the same engineering standards as the US teams. The Colombo office builds enterprise grade product.

The tech stack spans full stack engineering, cloud infrastructure, data and analytics, AI and machine learning, enterprise architecture, UI and UX, quality engineering and cybersecurity.

A capability decision

When the world's largest foodservice company, an $81 billion business serving 730,000 locations, trusts Sri Lankan engineers with its core technology, it is making a decision about capability.

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