Most small to medium businesses eventually hit a “data ceiling.” Your systems are working, but they don’t talk to each other. You’re spending more time exporting CSVs and stitching together disconnected spreadsheets than you are making strategic decisions.

Outpost Data Services was founded to break that ceiling. I rapidly deploy the production-grade architecture and automation of a corporate data department—without the enterprise price tag. My focus is simple: build your single source of truth, eliminate the manual friction, and hand you an AI-ready foundation designed to scale. For most small businesses, this is also the first practical step into automation and AI — low-risk, fully within your own systems, and never locked to me.

1. The Setup: You create a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account. This ensures you own your data and infrastructure entirely. You pay the cloud hosting costs directly to Google, and you grant me access so I can build your environment.
2. The Build: Using our proven blueprint, I connect your various platforms (Xero, HubSpot, CRMs, etc.) to your central BigQuery warehouse. I clean, transform, and structure your raw data into an optimized, unified layer.
3. The Handover: Once the system is live, I hand over the keys along with a foundational dashboard template to get you started. Your team has full ownership over day-to-day reporting, backed by a clean, automated single source of truth and an AI-ready foundation.
4. Ongoing Leverage (Optional): As your business grows, your data volumes and sources will too. I offer flexible ongoing engagement as your fractional data engineer—helping you integrate new platforms, scale your pipeline architecture, update underlying business logic, and safely plug in AI workloads when you're ready.

This data infrastructure is built to be completely self-sustaining, meaning you aren't locked into a long-term contract just to keep the lights on. I generally partner with businesses in one of a few ways:

1. The Foundation Build (Project-Based)
   A fixed-scope engagement to deploy your Google Cloud data warehouse, connect your core data sources, and deliver your master dashboards. You get a fully automated, AI-ready system built entirely inside your own account.
2. Fractional Data Expert (Ongoing Support)
   Once your foundation is live, you can retain my expertise on a flexible monthly basis as your fractional data engineer. I'm available to monitor your pipeline health, resolve data quality issues as they arise, and integrate new data sources as your business grows. This is an infrastructure-focused engagement — keeping your data foundation reliable and your pipelines running cleanly, so you and your team can focus on what the data means for your business.
3. Data Admin & Task Support (Task-Based or Retainer)
   If your business is currently offshoring manual data work — or your team is losing hours each week to reconciliations, data entry, report compilation, cleaning up spreadsheets, or manually pulling data together from several different systems — I can take these tasks on directly. It's the same automation skillset behind the warehouse builds, applied to your day-to-day admin, which means the work gets done faster and more reliably than a typical offshore team. You don't need a full data warehouse to use this service; it can run entirely on its own. Learn more →

I'm a Melbourne-based data engineer with deep enterprise roots. Having architected and managed massive cloud data environments—including scaling platforms to over 400 data interfaces—I bring genuine corporate-grade expertise, rigorous security, and strict data governance principles to growing businesses.

I don't believe in locking you into proprietary platforms or outsourcing your data to faceless third parties. By building entirely within your own Google Cloud account, you own the infrastructure and you own the data. I simply provide the blueprint and expertise to stand it up perfectly, leaving you with a permanent asset that is structurally ready for the future of AI.