I work with companies that run physical things. Energy networks, data centres, industrial plant, mines, water.

Somewhere in most of them a person, not a system, is the last check on whether the numbers are right. They remember which contractor reports late, which reading looks wrong in March, which of the four spreadsheets is the real one.

That person is why things mostly work. They are also why nothing can be handed over, why nobody can take a month off, and why numbers drift for years before anyone notices.

I find where that is and build the thing that does the checking instead, so it stops being anybody’s job.

Mechanical engineering before data engineering, which is why the physical layer is the part I understand rather than the part I have to ask about.

Three questions, and I’ll point you at the bit that matches ⊹

Or read how the work actually runs ⊹

William Marzella, Melbourne. hello@motis.group