// DATA · AI · SOFTWARE · CLOUD est. 2019 · cape town | johannesburg

Beyond data.
Engineering
decisions in motion.

We build modern data platforms, intelligent products, and the cloud foundations underneath them. From first pipeline to production AI, we ship.

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100+
SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS ACROSS DATA, CLOUD AND SOFTWARE
13B+
ROWS PROCESSED DAILY IN PRODUCTION
800+
MODEL IN PRODUCTION ACROSS AWS, AZURE, AND DATABRICKS
ZA · UK · US
PROJECTS DELIVERED ALL OVER THE WORLD
— What we build

Modern Data Platforms.
Intelligent Products.
Engineered to Deliver.

01 / Foundations

Data
platforms

Lakehouse architectures, governed warehouses, streaming backbones. The boring substrate that makes everything else fast.

SnowflakeDatabricksBigQuery
02 / Pipelines

Data engineering

Pipelines that don't break at 3am. Schema-aware, observable, idempotent — ingest to insight, with tests on every hop.

dbtAirflowKafkaSpark
03 / Intelligence

AI & ML systems

Forecasting, ranking, RAG, agents in production. Built on your data, evaluated against reality, deployed with confidence.

LLMsBedrockSageMaker
04 / Infrastructure

Cloud engineering

Landing zones, IaC, networking, security, FinOps. The cloud foundation everything else gets built on — done once.

AWSAzureTerraform
05 / Products

Software engineering

Internal tools, customer-facing apps, decision interfaces. The last mile from model to a button someone clicks.

ReactPythonGo
Absa RMB Capitec Investec Woolworths Financial Services MTN AddPay Microsoft Xbigly Labs
— Where we work

Regulated, real-time,
and revenue-critical.

// 01 banking & finance→

Data Platforms and engineering for tier-1 banks.

Regulatory-grade pipelines feeding real insights. Lineage you can defend in an audit, latency low enough to matter at the till.

// 02 insurance→

Legislation-grade
orchestration.

Two Pot System integration on .NET + AWS — designed and delivered against a hard regulatory deadline, with peak-load infrastructure for retirement-annuity volumes.

// 03 energy→

From monthly PDF
to hourly insight.

140+ solar sites on a Databricks lakehouse, medallion ingestion, dimensional model, Power BI on Serverless SQL. Fund reporting that runs itself, ready for ML next.

// 04 payments→

PCI-ready cloud, audit-ready every year.

Managed AWS environments for payment gateways: CI/CD on PCI-certified golden images, KMS-encrypted data paths, and audit support that gets the findings closed, not just logged.

— How we work

Less slideware.
More shipped.

01
// Discover ·

Map the messy reality.

Stakeholder interviews, system audits, and a frank read on what's working. We surface the constraints other teams politely ignore.

02
// Architect ·

Design for now, evolve as you learn.

Reference architecture, data contracts, security model. Trade-offs written down so future-you can disagree with present-you.

03
// Build · in sprints

Ship small, ship often.

Vertical slices end-to-end, ingest, transform, expose. A working system in week three beats a perfect one in month nine.

04
// Operate · ongoing

Hand it over, stay reachable.

Runbooks, observability, training. We optimise for your team owning what we built, not for a retainer.

— Selected work

Things we built
that made it to production.

2023 / FinSvc Stopping fraud in milliseconds Confluent Kafka + Flink streaming the transaction firehose into a fraud-decisioning service. Sub-200ms p95 — the millisecond gap that turns prevention from a report into an action. Confluent · Flink 2024 / FinSvc FICA compliance, on demand One centralised view of which customers' FICA records are expired or incomplete. Ops & Marketing finally target only the clients who actually need verifying — with a data mart they can trust. ELT · Medallion 2023 / FinSvc Audit-ready regulatory reporting Auditable, point-in-time data marts feeding submission packs straight to the regulator. End-to-end lineage that holds up in audit — first time, every cycle. dbt · Lineage 2024 / Retail Loyalty, refreshed daily Rebuilt the loyalty platform to refresh on a daily rhythm instead of monthly. Members see their position now — and the business has a near-real-time signal to act on instead of last-month's snapshot. Modernisation 2024 / Agri Eyes on every fertiliser run Built and operate the device-to-dashboard data platform for a continental agri group. One operationally critical answer, finally visible: are field agents following the prescribed fertilisation plans — per agent, per farm, per season. IoT · BI
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— Stack & partners

We're opinionated,
not dogmatic.

We pick tools that fit the problem. Mostly that means the open standards underneath the big platforms, with deep partnerships across the major clouds and data platforms.

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AWS
Azure
GCP
Snowflake
Databricks
dbt Labs
Confluent
HashiCorp
MongoDB
— Clients said
01 / 03
With cloudandthings.io as our trusted partner, AddPay has not only strengthened its technical foundation but also positioned itself for sustained growth in the fintech industry.
Daniel Louw · AddPay
Their cloudandthings.io team demonstrated the utmost professionalism and expertise in implementing a robust data solution for SolarAfrica Energy. They successfully automated one of our most critical reports using Databricks Lake House Platform and Microsoft Power BI, exceeding our expectations.
Arno Combrinck · SolarAfrica Energy
cloudandthings.io's expertise in AWS has streamlined our operations, allowing us to focus on our core business objectives.
Hoosain Abass · Pattern Retail

Let's build
something that
ships, not slips.

Tell us about the platform you wish you had, the model you can't get into production, or the pipeline that keeps paging you. We'll send back a real answer, not a brochure.

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