I moved to the South Coast.
And I brought 15 years of enterprise IT with me.
Ironbark Tech is one person — a technical architect with experience most regional businesses have never had access to, and no interest in charging Sydney rates to deliver it.
The background
For 15 years I worked at the sharp end of enterprise technology. As a technical architect at Microsoft, I built integrations serving enterprise clients across APAC. I worked inside global financial institutions in the UK and Australia — systems that process billions of dollars a day, where data integrity isn't a nice-to-have. I was a technical architect on defence programmes where a failure means more than a frustrated user. I've been part of $100M+ sales and delivery processes and know what it takes to make complex systems work reliably under real pressure.
Then I made a deliberate choice to move to the South Coast.
What I found when I got here
A region full of capable, hardworking businesses running on processes that would make a corporate IT team wince. Not because the owners lack intelligence or drive — they clearly don't — but because the kind of expertise that could fix these problems has only ever been available at a price point that doesn't make sense for a 12-person trade business or a farm or a holiday rental portfolio.
The tradie team manually copying job details into Xero every night. The farmer with $400,000 in machinery and no visibility over where any of it is or how hard it's working. The mortgage broker spending two hours a day on data entry that a properly connected system would handle in seconds. The holiday rental owner managing five properties across four apps and a whiteboard.
These are solvable problems. I've solved far harder ones.
How I work
I start with a conversation, not a proposal. Before I suggest anything, I want to understand your actual workflow — where the time goes, what breaks, what you've already tried. Most of the time the problem is clearer than it looks and the fix is more straightforward than you'd expect.
If I can help, I'll tell you exactly what I'd build, how long it would take, and what it costs — in plain English, up front. If it's genuinely not something I can improve, I'll tell you that too and point you somewhere useful. I'm not interested in billing hours on problems I can't solve well.
Everything I deliver is documented so your team understands it, and built to run without ongoing dependence on me. The goal is for you to stop thinking about the problem — not to create a new one.
If that sounds like the right fit
Book a free 45-minute call. We'll map what's breaking in your workflow and work out whether I can fix it. No obligation, no sales pitch — just an honest conversation about your systems and what's possible.
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