Platform Development · Dunedin
Dunedin's platform engineering partner — the backend, data and infra your product scales on.
We design and build the platform underneath the product: APIs, data, cloud and the reliability work that decides whether you scale or stall. Built for Dunedin teams who'd rather ship than re-platform in a year.
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Why Dunedin teams call us
The work you can't afford to get wrong.
Dunedin is a university city (Otago) with a health and manufacturing base — research-adjacent buyers who want rigour and explainability.
Our backend was built to get to launch and it's now the thing slowing every release down.
We're going multi-tenant / enterprise and our architecture wasn't designed for it.
Our data is spread across five systems and nobody trusts the numbers in the dashboard.
We're paying per-seat for Tableau / Power BI / Looker and the bill scales worse than our revenue.
We have outages we can't explain and no real observability to find out why.
What we do
What platform engineering actually covers.
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute call. If we can't tell you something useful in that window, we don't take it on.
Platform & backend architecture
APIs, services and data models designed for where you're going, not where you launched — the structure that lets you add features without adding fragility.
Data platform
One source of truth: pipelines, warehouse/lakehouse and a semantic layer, so the dashboard, the product and finance all agree on the numbers.
Embedded analytics & BI
Replace per-seat Tableau / Power BI / Looker with Apache Superset and ClickHouse, embedded inside your product — the reference architecture we run for our own platforms.
Cloud & DevOps
AWS, GCP or Azure done properly: IaC, CI/CD, environments, secrets and cost guardrails — so deploys are boring and the bill is predictable.
Multi-tenant SaaS
Tenant isolation, row-level security, per-tenant config and the data architecture that lets you sell to enterprise without re-platforming.
Reliability & observability
SLOs, tracing, logging and alerting that tell you what broke and why — before the customer does. Performance and caching that hold up under load.
Why Dunedin
In your timezone. Onsite when it counts.
Dunedin platform work is research-adjacent: the University of Otago's health and research data needing governance and reproducibility, plus manufacturing operational data.
We build governed, reproducible data platforms — versioned datasets, lineage and time-series where needed — with embedded Superset and NZ Privacy Act-aligned residency.
What "good" looks like.
We measure ourselves on what your team is doing differently — not on hours billed.
Typical BI licensing reduction when we replace per-seat Tableau / Power BI / Looker with embedded Superset + ClickHouse.
Architecture that lets you sell to enterprise — tenant isolation and row-level security — without a rebuild.
CI/CD, IaC and observability so releases are routine and outages are explainable, not mysteries.
Everything lands in your repo and your cloud account. No black box, no lock-in to us.
How we engage
Three ways to start. All begin with a call.
Engagement
Platform Audit
2-week diagnostic of your architecture, data and reliability — what to fix first, what to retire, what'll break at the next scale step. Fixed scope, fixed fee.
from NZ$10K
Engagement
Platform Build
6–12 week engagement: re-platform, data platform, embedded analytics or multi-tenant migration, delivered in your repo and infrastructure.
from NZ$50K
Engagement
Embedded platform team
An embedded platform squad that builds alongside your engineers and hands the keys back. 2–4 days a week, quarterly outcomes.
from NZ$12K/mo
FAQ
Direct answers to what Dunedin teams ask before they book.
Are you based in Dunedin?
We're an Australian-headquartered firm working trans-Tasman. For Dunedin we work remote-first in your timezone, with onsite visits for kickoff and key milestones. We work with teams across the CBD.
How fast can you start?
A 2-week Platform Audit can start the Monday after the scoping call. Larger engagements typically begin 1–2 weeks out, depending on team availability.
Do you work in NZD and to New Zealand compliance?
Yes — we contract and price in NZD. We design for the NZ Privacy Act 2020, ISO 27001 and SOC 2. We're an official Vanta partner for the evidence side.
Do you work in our existing stack or impose your own?
Your stack. We meet the codebase, cloud and tools you already run, and we only recommend a change when the cost of staying is clearly higher than the cost of moving.
Can you help with the embedded analytics / Superset piece specifically?
Yes — it's a core competency. We run Apache Superset and ClickHouse embedded inside our own venture-studio products, so the reference architecture is one we operate, not just recommend.
Can you build reproducible research data platforms?
Yes — versioned, documented datasets with lineage, so an analysis can be reproduced and defended rather than living in a one-off spreadsheet.
NZ residency and Privacy Act?
Yes — NZ cloud regions, mapped to the Privacy Act 2020.
Do you actually build, or just advise?
Both — and we never advise without being willing to build. If we tell you the answer is Apache Superset, we'll stand it up. If we say hire a senior engineer, we'll write the spec and sit on the panel.
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