About Us
Our Trajectory
Vision
Mission
Delivering easy to use and affordable spatial info for property developers to make great architecture affordable.
Values
- Efficiency – We speed up surveying, design & planning, to make great architecture affordable.
- Happiness – We are customer happiness obsessed.
- Growth – We grow the pie for partners & us.
- Pro team – We are professional, reliable & accountable team players.
- Innovative – We are constantly learning, innovating & optimizing.
- Go-getters – We are bold, enthusiastic & unshakable.
- Builders – We make cool sh!t that people love.
- Harmony – We help communities & the environment thrive.
Our People
Simon Cookes
CEO
Twenty years experience in architecture. Past Director of DBA. Architecture award winner & judge. 3D surveying expert.
B Planning & Design, B Property & Construstion, B Architecture (Hons), M Research (3D surveys). Architect Vic #17120
Daniel Moore
CTO
Twenty years experience in software engineering. Leader and manager of deep tech teams. Past Blackmagic Design. Past CSIRO eng.
B Computer Science (Hons)
Tony Duong
Modeling Manager Melbourne
Architecture grad, experienced in 3D scanning, drone pilot, 3D modeling, BIM, admin & customer support.
B Env (Architecture), M Arch
Yufan Zhang
3D Surveyor
Experienced surveyor in 3D scanning, LiDAR data processing, photogrammetry & RTK GPS.
M Spatial Eng, B Survey & Mapping Eng
Jin Teo
3D Scanner & Modeler
Architecture grad. Expert in BIM modeling, drafting & rendering across various software platforms
B Env (Architecture), M Arch
Harsh Baheti
3D Scanner & Modeler
Architecture grad. 3D laser scanner operator. BIM modeling & drafting.
B Arch, M Project Management
Jaymin Saliya
3D Scanner & Modeler
Architecture grad. 3D laser scanner operator. BIM modeling & drafting.
B Env (Architecture), M Arch
Gabriele Angeletti
Senior Software Engineer
Research & Development – Deep Tech.
MSc AI & Robotics, B Computer & Control Engineering
Tou Lee
Senior Software Engineer
Full stack web engineering.
M IT, Computing
Our Community
Nightingale
Nightingale Housing is leading a housing revolution in our cities by constructing multi-residential buildings that are financially, socially and environmentally sustainable.
LARKI has had the pleasure of providing heavily discounted services and other support to Nightingale.
Sacred Heart Mission
Meals, shelter and support for people who are experiencing homelessness and disadvantage in Melbourne and surrounds.
LARKI team have worked in Sacred Heart soup kitchens, helping to feed to homeless in St Kilda.
Melbourne City Mission
Supporting the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in Melbourne, advocating for social change. Including service provision in: disability, homelessness, training, training, justice & palliative care.
LARKI Founder did the CEO Sleepout – trying to sleep a whole night on concrete in 5 degrees – to raise money for Melbourne City Mission.
Our Environment
Green Peace
The leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
LARKI team regularly give money to this great cause to fight for environmental justice campaigns like: Stop Adani Coal Mine.
Carbon Neutral
Creating bio diversification through reforestation as a ‘carbon sink’ to offset our carbon use.
LARKI offset the carbon produced by planting trees with Greenfleet.
Victoria Eco Innovation Lab
An interdisciplinary design research group focused on innovation for more sustainable and resilient future cities. The aim is to shift thinking about both what is possible and what is needed using scenarios, modelling, and visualisations of alternative futures to help communicate these ideas.
LARKI Founder has been a contributor, teacher, guest critic, designer on various VEIL initiatives.
Your Career
Architectural Sales Rep.
Get architects & property developers out of the dark ages of low-detail, paper-based land surveys or tedious site measurements & onto LARKI’s exceptionally detailed 3D surveys.
This you?
- Personable & exceptional communicator;
- Worked as an architect &/or done sales to architects in Melbourne;
- Passion for architecture;
- Tenacious, proactive & outcomes focused;
- Excited by smashing targets & driving growth;
- All over apps (esp. CRMs like Pipedrive & Active Campaign);
- Team player but also happy to work independently & remotely;
- On-board with the idea of working in a tech startup.
You’ll be working with Simon Cookes. He worked for architects in Tokyo, the best architects in Australia (ARM) and ran his own architecture firm for 10 years. He judged the Architecture Awards, taught final year architectural design at Uni Melb, and presented at conferences about 3D surveys. People often say he dreams big, has a big heart and is always smiling.
Simon has managed to get some of the best architects in this part of the world using LARKI 3D surveys to help them design better buildings and work more efficiently. They are loving it, quotes from customers:
“Whoa – this point cloud survey is next level!… They are an essential tool in any architects workflow… Nice job. Thanks LARKI.” James Murray – Director, Tandem
“LARKI’s work on Nightingale Village has been exceptional… So good to see an entrepreneurial architect see a problem in our industry, design a solution, then roll that solution out as a smart new product tailored specifically for us.” Jeremy McLeod, Director – Breathe Architecture, Co-founder – Nightingale Housing.
Time to take this project to the next level with your help!
Position title: Sales, Melbourne.
The successful applicant will be working in a dynamic co-working space in Carlton, Victoria with other tech startups.
This sound cool for now:
OK then, you sound like the next key player to rocket our startup & help change the world, literally!
Give Simon a holler at: info@larki.com.au
3D Scanner - Sydney
Dive into the cutting edge of 3D laser scanning technology and 3D existing condition modeling to help make great architecture more affordable.
This you?
- Keen interest in 3D scanning & software (e.g. LiDAR & photogrammetry);
- You think 3D laser scanners & drones are super cool;
- Work experience in a land surveying office;
- Self-learner, proactive & outcomes focused;
- Like a mix of work outdoors in the field as well as office work;
- Team player but also happy to work independently & remotely;
- On-board with the idea of working in a tech startup.
You’ll be working with Simon Cookes. He worked for architects in Tokyo, the best architects in Australia (ARM) and ran his own architecture firm for 10 years. He judged the Architecture Awards, taught final year architectural design at Uni Melb, and presents at conferences about 3D surveys. People often say he dreams big, has a big heart and is always smiling.
Simon has managed to get some of the best architects in this part of the world using LARKI 3D surveys to help them design better buildings and work more efficiently. They are loving it, quotes from LARKI customers:
“Whoa – this point cloud survey is next level!… They are an essential tool in any architects workflow… Nice job. Thanks LARKI.” James Murray – Director, Tandem
“LARKI’s work on Nightingale Village has been exceptional… So good to see an entrepreneurial architect see a problem in our industry, design a solution, then roll that solution out as a smart new product tailored specifically for us.” Jeremy McLeod, Director – Breathe Architecture, Co-founder – Nightingale Housing.
Time to take this project to the next level with your help!
Position title: 3D Scanner, Sydney.
The successful applicant will be working in a dynamic co-working space in Wynyard, Sydney, NSW with other tech startups.
This sound cool for now:
- Casual, part-time or full-time.
- $50k to $60k base salary, plus
- 10% possible bonuses.
- And, if you rock, a possible equity opportunity (yep you can own part of the company!)
OK then, you sound like the next key player to rocket our startup & help change the world, literally!
Give Simon a holler at: info@larki.com.au
