MakerX

We’re excited to have Rinat Zaripov joining us as a Lead Engineer. With deep technical expertise and a passion for building, exploring, and collaborating, Rinat will be a huge part of shaping the products and experiences we create together. Welcome aboard, Rinat! we’re thrilled to have you on the journey with us!

We’re pleased to welcome Isaac Dedini to MakerX as a Senior Engineer, joining our Brisbane team! Isaac brings strong experience in software engineering and a thoughtful, collaborative approach to problem-solving. We’re excited to see the contributions he’ll make as we continue exploring, creating, and delivering impactful products together. Welcome to MakerX, Isaac! 

A warm welcome to Isaac Dedini and Karmjit Singh, who’ve joined us in Brisbane as Senior Engineers. We’re really glad to have you both on the team and look forward to the experience you’ll bring to MakerX. Excited to see the impact you’ll make as we keep building together! 

Our very own Principal Engineer, Jack Watts, delivered his session “Making AI Systems You Can Trust in Production” at DDD Perth and it sparked some fantastic conversations. While DDD Perth recordings aren’t available yet, Jack has shared a recording of the same talk from an earlier event and it's well worth a watch if you’re curious about building trustworthy AI systems!

Karmjit Singh joins us in Brisbane as a Senior Engineer, bringing more than 15 years of experience across Australia, the US, and India. Beyond his engineering depth, Karmjit is passionate about sharing knowledge and runs a youtube channel dedicated to teaching iOS programming! We’re thrilled to have Karmjit on the team and can’t wait to see the creativity, energy, and ideas he’ll bring to MakerX. Welcome aboard!

We had a fantastic day at DDD Perth. The MakerX booth was buzzing and we met so many new people, swapped ideas, and had some great conversations about what we’re building at MakerX! A big highlight was seeing our Principal Engineer, Jack Watts present “Making AI Systems You Can Trust in Production” to a full room. He shared practical strategies for tackling real-world challenges with AI systems, sparking plenty of discussion both during and after the session. Huge thanks to the #DDDPerth organisers for another well-run event. Always great to be part of a community that values sharing knowledge and pushing ideas forward.

We’ll be at DDD Perth this weekend! Swing by the MakerX booth to meet some of our crew (Rachael Goodenough, Rob Moore, Brendan Graham, Wilson Waters, Tarryn Manning, Daniel Healy) and have a chat about what it’s like working with (or at!) a remote-first R&D studio that helps ambitious companies build incredible products! Whether you’re curious about how we work, want to talk tech and product, or just want a sticker and a good convo, we’re keen to connect! You’ll find us there all day, come say hi! 👋

Catch our Principal Engineer, Jack Watts at #DDDPerth this weekend as he shares practical, battle-tested strategies for building trustworthy AI in production. From handling hallucinations and context windows to error handling, semantic routing, and monitoring RAG apps, Jack’s talk will help you move beyond demos and proof-of-concepts into robust, production-ready systems.  🎟️ dddperth.com

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the University of Melbourne last week for an evening exploring how AI is reshaping the way we work, transact, verify identity, and establish truth. We heard an opening keynote from our CTO and Co-founder Rob Moore who then joined a panel discussion with Lenka Bednarikova (Head of AI & Advanced Analytics, Australian Retirement Trust) and Staci Warden (CEO, Algorand Foundation), moderated by Imogen Crump. Key insights from the evening: 💫 The AI paradox: AI is simultaneously our biggest opportunity and greatest threat. According to MIT, despite $30-40 billion in enterprise investment, 95% of organisations are getting zero return on GenAI. 💫 Beyond cost-cutting to value creation: The real opportunity isn't replacing humans with AI, but enabling humans and AI to create value that neither could achieve alone through autonomous, trusted, and economically meaningful work. 💫 A north star for business leaders: Rob presented a north star to help guide leaders on their AI adoption journeys; We want AI to do valuable, economically meaningful, autonomous, trusted, reliable work on behalf of humans and organisations. 💫 Four building blocks need reimagining: Work coordination, truth verification, identity, and money systems are the cornerstone of work, but are all designed for human-scale operations; they must evolve to support work at an AI-driven speed, scale and sophistication. 💫 The infrastructure challenge: Current work coordination relies on humans as "duct tape" for broken processes and incomplete data and this along with traditional payment rails, legal frameworks (built for human actors), and verification systems (broken by deepfakes) can't support autonomous AI agents that need comprehensive context and make decisions in milliseconds. 💫 The convergence opportunity: Agentic AI with proper data and context platforms combined with third-generation blockchain, decentralised identity & verifiable credentials, and regulated, programmable money are emerging as solutions, but only when we understand these as interconnected, not isolated solutions. 💫 Australia's choice: With strong financial infrastructure but slower regulatory progress compared to the EU and Singapore, we face a critical decision: lead this transformation or risk being left behind. The evening reinforced that this isn't just about technology—it's about reimagining the fundamental infrastructure of work and value creation in an AI-driven economy. A big thank you to our speakers and the University of Melbourne for partnering with us to make this important conversation possible.

Last week our Principal Engineer, Melissa Houghton took the stage at AI Industry Connection: Generative & Agentic AI for Business, hosted at Curtin University’s WA Data Science Innovation Hub. The room was buzzing with leaders from Chevron, Wesfarmers, Scott Park Group Pty Ltd, Metabolic Health Solutions, Howllai, iyarn and more, proof of how fast WA’s AI community is growing. Melissa cut through the hype with practical strategies for deploying generative AI responsibly showing how businesses can move fast and keep it safe. She shared the spotlight with Alex Jenkins (WADSIH) and Joshua Boys (Arkahna), who brought some impressive agentic AI demos to life. Huge thanks to the Australian Industry Group and WA Data Science Innovation Hub for pulling together such a fabulous crowd. It’s exciting to see so many people shaping the future of AI in WA!