BlakYaks are excited to announce that we turn two years old this month!

BlakYaks are excited to announce that we turn two year old this month!

Our amazing Herd of Yaks has grown significantly, and our service and solution portfolio has developed considerably over the past 24 months with every cool cloud native project delivered for our wonderful customers.

BlakYaks was launched two years ago with the singular goal of helping customers to embrace cloud native and ultimately move away from legacy IaaS. We take great pride in our ability to create innovative Azure serverless solutions, solving our customers’ challenges and doing it all with code!

Our team like to push boundaries and develop innovative new solutions and services built on strong DevSecOps & IaC principles and standards. It has been an incredible journey so far…. and we owe the success of our business to our brilliant team and to the overwhelming support of our awesome customers and partners.

Two years in business

As we celebrate our second anniversary, here are some highlights of the last 24 months:

Some other interesting Yaks fakts

• FY 2022 = 510% revenue growth YoY

• 220% headcount growth YoY

• Over 40 Client Projects won / delivered in year 2 focus primarily on:

  • Microsoft Azure Landing Zone design, remediation, build, operate

  • DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code – Strategy, Implementation, Adoption

  • Enterprise containers and Serverless on Azure (AKS and Red Hat OpenShift)

  • Azure Specialist Operations – providing the ITIL and SRE blended Ops for modern cloud operations

• Over 200 Azure cloud native relevant code repos 

• Achieved two Microsoft solutions partner designations and about to achieve the Advanced Specialisation for Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure 

• +60 individual certifications achieved by our team on core and specialist technologies (Azure, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Terraform, etc.)

• Greater focus on team development & New training programs in place

• Growing our partner ecosystem and delivering the first engagements in collaboration with leading organisations 

• New Business Development Team launched 

• We are expanding our team across the UK with our hybrid/remote model of work

• We are now on the hunt for a larger city office

• Company culture: We are maturing our culture which is reflected in BlakYaks obtaining GPTW certification for the first time

• Diversity: +15 nationalities on the team

• BlakYaks included in the List of Supporters of the Standards of the UN for Business Tackling Discrimination against LGBTQI+

• We also aim to give back to the community and we have collaborated with different organisations and charities such as Cancer Research, Electric Barge, Little Lives, Heath Hands, etc.

To all our customers and partners - Thank you!

We are incredibly proud to have assembled a team of such talented and passionate specialist engineers, who strive every day to create innovative cloud native solutions.

But above all we want to extend our thanks each and every one of our customers, whose management teams have trusted their partnership with BlakYaks to drive digital / cloud transformation in 2023.

We also need to recognise and highlight the role of our partners during the last 2 years, providing our team with the support, guidance, and inspiration to develop market leading cloud native solutions and services for our customers.

Our partner ecosystem has been instrumental to BlakYaks success and we are thrilled to collaborate every day with some of the most innovative companies in the industry.

And to all our amazing Yaks…

Lastly (and by no means least) we must thank all of the BlakYaks team for their continued hard work, commitment and dedication over the past two years. Our business would not be in the shape it is without them! We appreciate all of their many achievements and look forward to seeing them continue to develop and deliver excellence in year 3!

We are very excited for the future and all the possibilities it holds. We look forward to continuing to grow and mature and providing our customers with the best possible outcomes.

Conclusion

We are thrilled to celebrate two years of business and we would like to thank everyone for their support and trust in us and look forward to continuing to grow and develop our solutions and services.

We are only just getting started!