Data platform & AI architecture
Your data platform mostly works. Until it doesn't.
I diagnose what's fragile, what's expensive, and where AI actually belongs, then hand your team a plan they can execute.
Six ways to work together
Pick the shape of help you need.
From 30 minutes on one decision to a standing seat at your architecture table — each offer is priced up front, no hourly meter.
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, storage, and BI capacity spend actually goes, then hands you a ranked list of what to fix first, with real dollar estimates wherever they can be pinned down.
AI & Automation Enablement
A hands-on engagement that sets up real AI tooling in your repo and workflow — MCP servers, coding agents, and a hierarchical knowledge structure so AI performs well without context bloat — anchored by one worked example adapted to your codebase.
Data Architect / Platform Engineer
A fractional data architect and platform engineer, on call for the migrations, platform work, and decisions your team needs hands-on help with — without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
Ask-an-Architect Call
A single, focused 30-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.
Data & AI Mentoring
Ongoing 1:1 mentoring for data professionals who want practical, production-grade skill with the modern stack and applied AI — not another course. Two calls a month, plus async access to ask real questions as they come up.
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.
Power BI performance turnaround for a Fortune 500 enterprise — and the $10K/month Azure fix that followed
How a stalled Power BI semantic model got rebuilt from scratch in a week — and what that led to: an Azure Analysis Services tier right-sized from ~$26K/month down to ~$10K, with no drop in performance.
Turning a one-off BI build into a product banks could deploy in under an hour
How a custom BI platform for banking clients became a modular, productized offering — new deployments fully configured in under an hour, sold as ready-to-ship add-ons instead of rebuilt from scratch each time.
Get started
Ready to talk about your platform?
Send me a few lines about what's going on. If it's a fit, I'll reply personally with next steps.
Request a Consultation