Inteledyne · Established 2012

Fractional solution architecturefor the AI era.

Sixteen years of enterprise data architecture, available to your team by the day or by the engagement. Cloud-native data lakes, agentic AI systems, and the senior judgment to know which decisions are reversible and which aren't.

Selected clients
University of WisconsinSalesforceViasatTaco BellBlue Shield of CaliforniaBank of AmericaHashmap / NTT Data3M
What I Bring

Hands-on architecture, not deck-driven consulting.

I write code in the same engagements where I write architecture documents. I have led teams of engineers and I have been the engineer when that's what the moment required. The result is architecture that survives contact with the team that has to build it.

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AWS-Native Data Lakes

Apache Iceberg, Spark, Glue, Lake Formation, EMR, Athena. The medallion architecture in production at scale.

Agentic AI Systems

Bedrock, Claude, multi-agent orchestration, schema-aware retrieval, natural-language to SQL — built and shipped, not slideware.

Adaptive Ingestion

Auto-relationalization engines that absorb schema drift without breaking downstream pipelines or requiring code changes.

Cost-Allocation Discipline

Engineering posture translated into run-rate dollars. Decisions defended with numbers, not assertions.

Hybrid Team Leadership

Sixteen years of leading hybrid onshore/offshore engineering teams across financial services, healthcare, retail, and higher education.

Executive Translation

Technical posture rendered into board-ready language — the gap between engineering excellence and executive consequence.

Selected Engagements

Recent work.

Full experience
University of Wisconsin
Hands-On AWS Cloud Architect
Recent

Designed and built a consolidated enterprise data lake on AWS EMR and Apache Iceberg for a major research university — turning complex on-premises Workday and PeopleSoft data into queryable, relational tables through an auto-relationalization engine.

  • Designed and built an auto-relationalization engine in Python and Spark that converts complex Workday and PeopleSoft XML into queryable Iceberg tables — automatically, end-to-end.
  • Replaced Airflow with an event-driven Step Functions / EventBridge / Lambda architecture for the Student Data Warehouse — dynamic DAG generation, no orchestration server to maintain.
Salesforce
Cloud Data Platform Architect
Recent

Architected the strategic AWS data-platform-as-a-service originating in Marketing and progressively adopted by roughly ten additional internal teams on the trajectory toward enterprise-wide use.

  • Re-architected platform ingestion to serverless (Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge) and migrated to elastic compute — shifting the cost profile from always-on infrastructure to consumption-aligned, while improving performance.
  • Built an LLM-based pipeline-failure triage system that identifies root causes and recommends remediation — meaningfully reducing time-to-diagnosis for the operations team.
Viasat
Staff Architect
Recent

Designed and implemented sub-second microservice architecture, plus the GCP migration target architecture and AI-assisted CI/CD model.

  • Architected a shared-sandbox selective-promotion CI/CD model that supports dozens of engineers across multiple teams without trampling each other.
  • Designed the future-state GCP target architecture for sub-second microservices migrating from AWS.
Taco Bell
AWS Enterprise Architect
Earlier

Built Taco Bell's first ground-up AWS analytics environment — VPC, security, data lake, scheduling.

  • Replaced an expensive commercial scheduler with a custom Lambda + Step Functions orchestration framework that handles automatic restartability and failure recovery.
  • Architected a real-time streaming analytics platform on Kinesis, Lambda, and DynamoDB processing restaurant POS data into operational insights.
Hashmap / NTT Data
Consulting Solution Architect
Recent

Consulting solution architect for Hashmap (and NTT Data, post-acquisition) engagements at Poly/Plantronics, SEI Investments, and Juniper Networks — three-month modernization and migration engagements, Snowflake security design, and serverless AWS data-platform patterns.

  • Led modernization and migration engagements across multiple client environments — orchestrated proofs of concept, guided clients on "buy vs. build" decisions on tooling and architecture, and produced three-month modernization plans with the supporting design documents, resourcing, and project plans. Served as solution, data, and cloud architect on on-premises-to-cloud analytics transitions.
  • Designed Snowflake security and DDL management frameworks — roles, resource monitors, warehouses, users, role grants, and operating documentation — including row-security policies for the secure exposure of multi-tiered financial data to a wide array of privileged audiences. Defined column- and row-level security patterns for AWS using Pulumi, Glue, Lake Formation, and Athena, in support of self-service serverless distributed data platforms.
A Note on Lake AI

The product that grew out of the practice.

Sixteen years of engagement work eventually pointed at the same problem: source-system change is the dominant cost driver in modern data layers, and most architectures don't address it directly. Lake AI is the platform built on the patterns that emerged from those engagements — self-evolving data foundations that absorb change instead of breaking under it.

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2-Week Engagement

Data Layer Health Assessment

The most common way clients begin working with me is through the productized two-week diagnostic available on Lake AI. Read the sample Briefing — see exactly what you'd receive.

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Engage

The first conversation is always free.

Reach out with the question on your mind. If we're a fit for your moment, we'll talk about scope and structure. If we're not, I'll tell you who to call instead.