Data platform & AI architecture
Senior architecture judgment for the modern data stack.
Your platform mostly works — until it doesn't, and nobody can say why. I diagnose what's fragile, what's expensive, and where AI actually belongs, then hand your team a plan they can execute.
Five ways to work together
Pick the shape of help you need.
From a single hour on one decision to a standing seat at your architecture table — each offer is fixed-scope and priced up front.
Architecture Health Check
A fixed-scope review of your data platform architecture that surfaces the risks, bottlenecks, and single points of failure hiding under a stack that "mostly works."
Cost Optimization Audit
A focused audit that traces where your compute and storage spend actually goes, then hands you a ranked list of changes with dollar figures attached.
AI & Automation Enablement
A pragmatic engagement that identifies where AI and automation genuinely earn their keep in your data platform, then wires up a first production-grade use case on solid architectural footing.
Fractional Data Architect
A monthly retainer that gives your team standing access to a senior data platform architect for design review, decision support, and the hard calls — without the cost or commitment of a full-time principal.
Ask-an-Architect Call
A single, focused 60-minute working session on one specific architecture question — no engagement, no scoping, no strings. The fastest way to get senior judgment on a decision you're stuck on.
Field notes & recent work
Selected outcomes from recent engagements.
Write-ups on real platform work — the same thinking I bring to paid engagements, in the open.
Building AI-agentic code review into a Fortune 500 data platform
How a multi-agent MCP framework and a hierarchical skill library let AI agents review production code and pick up backlog work directly, alongside a senior architect.
Modernizing a Fortune 500 data platform — and cutting cloud spend by $10K+/month
Notes from an ongoing engagement architecting and modernizing a large enterprise data platform on Snowflake, Databricks, and Azure — including AI-agentic tooling that now reviews production code.
Consultation
One hour can settle the decision you’re stuck on.
Send me the question and a little context. If it's a fit, I'll reply by email with scheduling details for a focused 60-minute session.
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