Outback Yak / AI, cloud & software
We’re a Melbourne engineering team turning your ideas into useful AI tools, dependable cloud systems and software that works for your business.
Work directly with the people building it, from the first conversation to what comes next.
Tell us what you’re buildingMigration case study · Workload-specific result
For one client, moving container workloads from AWS ECS with Fargate to Google Cloud Run helped save approximately $100,000 a year.
Open the case studyAn engineering view.Simplified explanation of the published architecture
For Hai Helper, a multi-agent retrieval system helps people navigate NDIS information. The engineering connects a question to relevant material before forming the response.
Open the case studyAn engineering view.Medical education / Technology partnership
As MEKSI’s primary technology partner, we help build text, audio and video learning experiences grounded in medical research and pedagogy.
Open the case studyAn engineering view.Selected client work / Open a project
Different teams. Different constraints.
The same commitment to getting it built.
Medical education / Technology partnership
We work with the anatomediaPLUS team to build medical learning experiences. At IFAA in Melbourne, that work met the people teaching and learning anatomy.
Meet the partnership“Suggest new things that even I wouldn’t have thought of.”
Dr. Jawahar Thomas on working with Outback Yak
From the conversation above · 1:09–1:23
Cloud engineering / Cost optimisation
Moving container workloads from AWS ECS with Fargate to Google Cloud Run helped one client save approximately $100,000 a year. A change in the operating model, grounded in how the application was actually used.
Inside the migration
Applied AI / Retrieval & source references
A multi-agent retrieval system helps people navigate NDIS information. Answers connect back to source documents. Our engineer Gaurav also joined the Hai Helper team at the Melbourne Disability Expo to hear directly from the people the app is built for.
Explore the systemMeet the community behind the work
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The way through
AI, cloud and software rarely arrive as separate problems. We work across the boundaries, alongside your business and your engineers.
What has to change? What already works? What are we protecting?
Cost, performance, maintainability and the people who will run it.
Work that reaches production, with the context your team needs to take it forward.
Working with people
building useful things.
Where we can help
Put intelligence where it makes a difference. AI agents & workflows. Retrieval & knowledge systems.
02Build the foundation for your next stage. Cloud architecture & migration. Platform engineering & DevOps.
03Turn a good idea into something people use. Web & mobile applications. Product design & development.
Out in the community / Melbourne
Sharing what we know with other engineers.
Listening to the people using what we build.
Bishal presented “The Wonderful World of Open Weights AI” at GDG Melbourne’s Build with AI event, sharing code examples and slides with the developer community.
From the evening
Gaurav joined Sam Fairbairn to introduce Hai Helper to the community, hear people’s experiences and learn more about the challenges they face.
From the expo floorFrom the people doing the work
From the workshop
Research
NewsA good place to start