Co-Founder · Kaltrep Technical Consulting
Background
I'm a data architect and analytics leader who came to the field through oil and gas engineering — not the other way around. I've drilled wells, supervised completions field operations with 250+ personnel, and built the operations schedules that drove billion-dollar CAPEX decisions. That operational context shapes every data system I design — I understand what the data represents because I've lived the operations behind it.
At EQT Corporation, I spent nearly a decade as the senior data executive — not advising on Lakehouse architecture, but building it. Production Databricks Unity Catalog across a multi-catalog architecture, 260,000+ monthly pipeline integrations spanning 150+ internally developed APIs, a $3.1M analytics budget, and a 35-person analytics organization built from zero. I know what breaks at enterprise scale because I was the one fixing it.
Before EQT, I served 21 years as a Marine officer — managing a $414 million aviation parts inventory at 99.98% accuracy during a combat deployment, cutting material delivery times by 74% through pipeline analysis, and briefing senior leadership on operational status across global logistics. The analytical discipline and the leadership instincts developed in parallel. They still operate the same way.