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Lead Architect
Platform · Unity Catalog · Security
Designs the spine: metastore strategy, identity, environment promotion, and the decisions that make later work cheap.
The cell
Four people. Full ownership.
Keel is intentionally small. Monopoly in a niche comes from depth and repetition — not from a bench that dilutes accountability.
02
Data Engineer
Pipelines · Reliability · Performance
Builds ingestion and transformation that survive production load — with observability and cost discipline baked in.
03
Analytics Engineer
Gold layer · Semantic contracts · BI
Turns the value-creation thesis into governed gold products operators and finance can actually use.
04
Engagement Lead
PE stakeholders · Partner · Exit criteria
Owns the clock, the sponsor relationship, and the Databricks partner motion so delivery never drifts into theater.
Names and bios lock in once the founding cell is finalized — the structure above is the operating design we hire and sell against.
One Keel 90 at a time — until the playbook is boring.
Parallel engagements only after the second public reference. That is how a niche becomes a monopoly instead of a staffing firm.
Work with the cell