Expertise & technologies

Deep in the fundamentals. Fluent in the modern stack.

Tools change every few years; data modeling and good architecture don’t. We combine both, and we pick technology for your problem, never the other way around.

Technologies by category

Data architecture & modeling

  • Dimensional modeling (Kimball)
  • Data Vault
  • Enterprise data models
  • Data warehouse architecture
  • Lakehouse & medallion
  • Semantic layers
  • Master data management

Cloud data platforms

  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • BigQuery
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Dremio
  • Apache Iceberg
  • Delta Lake
  • PostgreSQL with columnar storage
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud

Data engineering

  • SQL
  • Python
  • Apache Spark
  • ELT / ETL
  • Batch & incremental loads
  • Performance tuning

Integration & streaming

  • Airbyte
  • Meltano
  • Apache Kafka
  • Change data capture (CDC)
  • REST APIs

Orchestration & transformation

  • dbt (our specialty)
  • Apache Airflow
  • Mage
  • Data as code: Git, CI, reviews

Governance, quality & observability

  • OpenMetadata
  • Open data catalogs
  • Great Expectations
  • Elementary
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Lineage & data contracts

Analytics & BI

  • Qlik
  • Metabase
  • Metric definitions
  • Self-service analytics

AI & data integration

  • AI-ready data models
  • Retrieval (RAG) architectures
  • Vector search
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Governed data access for agents
Our favorite platform

Snowflake

Architecture, modeling, migration and cost optimization on Snowflake, backed by the SnowPro Advanced: Architect and SnowPro Core certifications.

Our specialty tool

dbt

dbt projects done right: layered models, tests, documentation, CI and team conventions, backed by the dbt Analytics Engineering certification and years of teaching dbt.

Technologies listed reflect hands-on project and teaching experience. Certifications are individual professional credentials. Product names belong to their owners; listing them does not imply an official partnership or endorsement.

Certifications

Certified where it counts.

Including Snowflake’s most senior architecture credential. We work across platforms and have a clear preference for the Snowflake ecosystem and dbt, where our expertise runs deepest.

SnowflakeSnowPro Advanced: Architect
SnowflakeSnowPro Core
DatabricksDatabricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
dbt Labsdbt Analytics Engineering Certification
Amazon Web ServicesAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
EXINInformation Security Foundation based on ISO/IEC 27001 (ISFS)

Individual professional certifications held by our team. They are not vendor partnerships.

Reference architecture

A full open-source data stack, when it makes sense.

Not every company needs a commercial platform. For many, a well-architected open-source stack, such as Airflow + dbt + Dremio + an open data catalog, or our tuned PostgreSQL with columnar storage, delivers a complete, governed data platform with no license costs.

Zero license costs

Significant savings compared with proprietary tools. You pay for infrastructure and expertise only.

No vendor lock-in

Open formats and open tools: your data and your logic stay portable.

Total flexibility

Each layer can evolve or be replaced as your needs grow, without starting over.

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