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Page 4 — About Mechanical Rock​

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Our Story​

Mechancial Rock was founded in Perth in 2014, born out of frustration with traditional approaches to consulting and software delivery.

From its inception, Mechanical Rock established a strong client base, working with organisations including Bankwest, BHP, AFG, Virtual Gaming Worlds, Woodside, Cash Converters, NOPSEMA, and National Australia Bank.

Mechanical Rock exists to solve the problems that teams lose sleep over.
The company brings together developers, designers, and technologists united by a shared mission:
to continuously reimagine what is possible at the edge of an ever-changing technology landscape.

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What Mechanical Rock Does​

Mechanical Rock is a cloud-native software consultancy that designs, builds, and operates modern digital systems for organisations across government, enterprise, and regulated industries.

The company specialises in data platforms, product development, DevOps, and application modernisation, applying disciplined engineering and delivery practices to help clients deliver better software, faster.

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Why We Exist​

Mechanical Rock helps clients achieve high-priority outcomes at speed.

More importantly, delivery is approached in a way that gives organisations the confidence to innovate, experiment, and move forward — even in uncertain environments.

By contributing software of substance to leading enterprises, Mechanical Rock supports clients in staying competitive while operating with confidence, backed by the technical expertise and cultural presence of the team.

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Our Approach​

DevOps is not what Mechanical Rock does.
It is how the work is done.

Mechanical Rock removes constraints on delivery by applying:

  • continuous delivery,
  • infrastructure-as-code,
  • and modern engineering practices.

This approach is combined with human-centred design and UX practices to develop a deeper understanding of business challenges, customers, and stakeholders — accelerating value delivery.

Mechanical Rock’s DevOps philosophy delivers better software, faster through:

  • Everything-as-Code under configuration management, including immutable infrastructure validated using Behaviour Driven Infrastructure (BDI)
  • Test-first development through Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
  • Continuous build and deployment pipelines with automated testing
  • Continuous operations via monitoring, alerting, auto-remediation, and optimisation
  • Transparency of information and active collaboration across teams

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Our Team​

Mechanical Rock is a cloud-native practice working with large and complex organisations to deliver efficient solutions to difficult problems.

The team applies modern DevOps practices, including code-driven infrastructure and test-first development, and helps organisations build and operate cloud systems that are scalable, cost-efficient, and reliable.

Mechanical Rock invests heavily in its people, recognising that capability and culture are foundational to successful delivery.

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Partnerships​

Mechanical Rock works with a select group of trusted technology partners.

These include:

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Advanced Consulting Partner
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • Fivetran
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
  • Sanity

Mechanical Rock is also Australia’s only Cucumber partner and actively supports community organisations such as The Happiness Co Foundation.

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Community​

Mechanical Rock organises Latency, Perth’s only conference dedicated to building secure, high-performing cloud-native products.

Through community involvement and industry engagement, Mechanical Rock contributes to the advancement of modern software delivery practices.

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Status​

Mechanical Rock is active and operating.

Its team, partnerships, and practices continue to evolve alongside technology and industry needs.