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Engineers First,
Enterprise Always
Real-time, streaming systems are the future of enterprise development. We build tools and platforms that accelerate engineers and organizations working with streaming technology.
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Empower engineers with simple, elegant, enterprise-ready tools to understand, control, and act on real-time data with speed and certainty.
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Our Story
Factor House was founded in 2019 by Derek and Kylie Troy-West, with founding engineer Tom Crowley joining in 2020.
After years of building data platforms in banking, insurance, and fintech, they discovered the power of Apache Kafka but also the huge gap: no enterprise-grade tools to make it practical for everyday engineering.
This is where Factor House was born. First came Kpow, a powerful UI and API for Apache Kafka. Then Flex, bringing the same simplicity to Apache Flink. Now, with the Factor Platform, Factor House delivers secure, scalable, lightning-fast streaming observability that helps engineers reclaim time, sharpen control, and unlock the future of real-time data
Our Values
Empower
We empower our clients, customers and engineers by delivering innovative solutions that allow them to achieve their goals and do their best work. We equip engineers and users to unlock their full potential.
Collaborate
We work with our customers, clients, users and broader tech ecosystem to understand their needs and create effective solutions. This commitment to collaboration ensures successful partnerships and innovative outcomes.
Respect
We build trustworthy and professional relationships based on mutual understanding and appreciation. Similarly, we develop and release features, tools and platforms that respect and reflect the expertise and knowledge of our users.
Curiosity
We approach our customers and the wider tech community with a goal of exploration and curiosity. We actively listen, investigate, and seek to understand their challenges and goals. This inquisitive mindset allows us to build better products, forge stronger relationships, and anticipate future needs with insight and creativity.
Our Global Team
Factor House is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with a globally distributed team. We’re small, nimble, and focused. Shipping quality code fast, and obsessing over user experience.
Quality is in our DNA. We closed our first eight Fortune 500 enterprise deals with a team of just three, and now at 17 and growing, spread across APAC and Europe, we’re here to disrupt the market. Backed by Blackbird VC, OIF, Flying Fox and the Alice Anderson Fund supporting female founders.
Join the Team
We’re growing. If you’re excited about building developer-first tools that are elegant, robust, and performant, or a technically-minded professional looking for an adventure at one of Australia’s most exciting tech startups, we want to hear from you!
Ready to take control of your streaming data?
Join thousands of engineers and enterprise teams already using Factor House to simplify, secure, and scale their Kafka and Flink environments.