Service · Data Engineering

The data foundation —
your business actually runs on.

Modern data stack, real-time streaming, and AI-ready pipelines. We build the data infrastructure that makes analytics fast, AI features possible, and ops trustworthy — without the "we'll fix it later" tax.

30+
Data platforms shipped
<5min
Data freshness
99%+
Pipeline reliability
4–12w
To first data product
Principle

Data quality beats pipeline cleverness. We engineer the foundation, not the demo.

The Shift

Data engineering changed more in 5 years than the prior 20.Modern tools made hard problems easy.

2018
Legacy ETL

Informatica, SSIS, custom scripts. On-prem warehouses. Hand-written SQL everywhere.

2020
Modern data stack

Fivetran + dbt + Snowflake/BigQuery. SQL-first transformation. Managed everything.

2022
Streaming standard

Kafka mainstream. Flink production-ready. Real-time analytics from event-driven sources.

2024
Data + AI converge

Vector DBs, embedding pipelines, ML feature stores. Lakehouses unify analytics + ML.

2026
Data products + governance

Data contracts, lineage, ownership. Data treated as a product, not a side effect.

Capabilities

What we deliver.

Four capabilities. Most engagements start with the warehouse foundation and expand into streaming and AI as the business case develops.

01

Data pipelines (ELT/ETL)

Batch and streaming pipelines that move data from source systems into your warehouse — Fivetran or Airbyte for managed ingestion, dbt for transformation, custom Python where the long tail demands it.

02

Warehouses & lakehouses

Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift. Right-sized architecture, cost-aware modeling, query performance that doesn't blow up at 10x scale. Lakehouses when storage cost matters; warehouses when SQL ergonomics win.

03

Real-time streaming

Kafka, Flink, Materialize. Sub-second data freshness when the business case justifies it. Event-driven architectures, change data capture, real-time analytics for ops and product.

04

AI-ready data

Embedding pipelines, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate), ML feature stores. The data infrastructure your AI/ML team needs without the "we'll fix it later" tax.

How we work

A 5-stage methodology — audit, then build.

Data projects fail at the audit, not the pipeline. We start where the leverage is.

01

Data audit

What sources you have. What data quality looks like. Where it lives. Who owns it. Most data projects fail because the audit was skipped — we start there.

02

Define contracts

Schemas, SLAs, owners. Data contracts between producers and consumers so the warehouse stops being a graveyard of broken assumptions.

03

Build foundation

Warehouse setup, ingestion pipelines, transformation models. We build the boring foundation right so everything downstream gets cheaper and faster.

04

Production engineering

Observability, cost dashboards, governance, lineage. Without these, data platforms get expensive and untrustworthy as they grow.

05

Iterate

New sources, new use cases, performance tuning. Data platforms are not "ship and forget" — they're infrastructure that compounds with use.

Architecture

Pick the pattern that fits your workload.

There's no one right data architecture — the right one depends on data volume, latency needs, and ML workloads. Here's the four-way decision.

Default for SaaS

Modern data stack

You have SaaS sources and want analytics fast

Fivetran → Snowflake → dbt → Looker/Mode · the path of least resistance for B2B SaaS
Fast to ship. Mature tooling. Low ops overhead.
Costs grow with data volume. Less flexibility for ML workloads.
When storage is the bottleneck

Lakehouse

Large data volumes or ML workloads alongside analytics

Databricks · Iceberg · Delta Lake — one storage layer for analytics + ML
Cheap storage. ML-native. Unifies analytics and ML on one platform.
Steeper learning curve. SQL ergonomics weaker than pure warehouses.
When freshness matters

Streaming-first

Real-time ops, fraud, anomaly detection, live product analytics

Kafka → Flink → real-time tables in Materialize / ClickHouse
Sub-second freshness. Event-driven by design. Powers real-time products.
Higher operational complexity. Costs scale with throughput.
Most production setups

Hybrid (batch + real-time + AI)

Mixed workloads — analytics, ops, ML

Snowflake for analytics · Kafka for events · pgvector for embeddings — picked per use case
Right tool per workload. Cost-optimized. Scales independently.
More moving parts. Governance gets harder. Ownership clarity matters.
Stack

The tools we use — and why.

Vendor-neutral. Tool choice driven by workload fit, team skill, and operational profile.

Warehouses & Lakehouses

Snowflake
Our default for SaaS analytics. Strong SQL ergonomics, zero-copy clones, time travel built in.
BigQuery
When you're on GCP, when scan-based pricing fits, or when you need serverless analytics.
Databricks
For ML-heavy workloads and lakehouse architectures. Delta Lake + Spark + MLflow.
Redshift / Postgres
Redshift for AWS-native shops. Postgres for smaller scale and tight integration.

Ingestion & Transformation

Fivetran
Managed ingestion from 400+ SaaS connectors. Pay for reliability.
Airbyte
Open-source alternative when you need self-hosting, custom connectors, or cost optimization.
dbt
SQL-first transformation. Tests, docs, lineage built in. Industry standard for the modern data stack.
Custom Python / Spark
For the long tail — legacy systems, custom logic, large transformations.

Orchestration

Airflow
Mature, broadly known. Best for complex DAGs with dependencies.
Dagster
Asset-oriented orchestration. Better dev ergonomics, type safety, lineage built in.
Prefect
Pythonic orchestration. Faster to iterate than Airflow for smaller teams.

Streaming

Kafka
The default event bus. Confluent for managed; self-hosted for cost or compliance.
Apache Flink
Stateful stream processing. Real-time aggregations, anomaly detection, CEP.
Materialize / ClickHouse
Real-time materialized views. Sub-second query freshness on streaming data.

Quality, Observability & AI

Great Expectations
Data quality testing. Catches schema breaks, distribution drift, null spikes.
Monte Carlo / Datafold
Data observability. Anomaly detection on freshness, volume, schema, distribution.
pgvector / Pinecone / Weaviate
Vector DBs for AI workloads. pgvector when Postgres is already in the stack.
Embedding pipelines
Production pipelines that turn documents, images, audio into embeddings for retrieval.
Outcomes

Ranges we typically deliver.

We measure baseline before and after. Numbers vary with starting condition — but here's the typical impact.

50–80%
Pipeline time saved
Modern data stack vs. custom ETL
<5min
Data freshness
For streaming pipelines at production scale
99%+
Pipeline reliability
With proper observability and retry semantics
30–50%
Infra cost cut
Typical reduction after a focused cost audit
4–12w
To first data product
Warehouse setup → working dashboards and metrics
Single
Source of truth
Across product, ops, finance, and AI teams
Verticals

What we'd build for your industry.

Data platforms shift with the regulatory, latency, and integration constraints of each vertical.

B2B SaaS

Product analytics

Product analytics infrastructure, customer 360, usage-based billing pipelines, retention dashboards. Modern data stack on Snowflake or BigQuery with dbt transformations. Embedding pipelines for AI features running on the same warehouse.

Healthcare

HIPAA-compliant

Clinical data warehouses with BAA-eligible infrastructure. PHI handling with row-level access controls. EHR integrations (Epic, Cerner). Pipelines feeding clinical decision support, quality reporting, and ML models trained on de-identified data.

Retail & E-commerce

Real-time + ML

Real-time inventory pipelines. Demand forecasting infrastructure. Personalization feature stores. Order, customer, and product data unified for analytics and ML — supporting both daily reports and real-time recommendations.

Fintech

Audit-grade

Transaction processing pipelines with end-to-end audit. Fraud detection feature stores. Regulatory reporting (BSA, KYC, SOX). Real-time anomaly detection on event streams. Compliance baked into data contracts from day one.

Production Posture

Data platforms that can be trusted.

Data lineage + audit

Every column traceable to its source. Every transformation logged. Every consumer mapped. Regulators and engineers both get answers.

PII / PHI handling

Row-level access, column masking, encryption at rest and in transit. BAA-eligible infrastructure for healthcare. Compliance designed in from the warehouse up.

Data contracts

Schemas, SLAs, ownership documented and enforced. Producer changes don't silently break consumers. The warehouse stops being a graveyard of broken assumptions.

Cost attribution

Per-team, per-pipeline, per-consumer cost dashboards. So the team running the expensive query is the team that pays for it — and gets to optimize it.

Why Aithentics

Foundations that compound.

Data quality beats pipeline cleverness

The fanciest streaming architecture doesn't fix dirty input data. We audit and fix data quality first — the pipeline is the easier problem.

Real-time is expensive — use where it matters

Streaming costs 3–10x batch at scale. We use real-time only where the business case justifies it. Most "real-time" dashboards work just fine on 5-minute batches.

Modern data stack beats custom

Fivetran + dbt + Snowflake beats hand-rolled ETL almost every time. We build custom only for the long tail — legacy systems, large transformations, niche integrations.

Data + AI converge — design for both

Lakehouses, vector DBs, feature stores — analytics and ML now share infrastructure. We design data platforms that serve both workloads instead of forcing a rebuild later.

FAQ

Honest answers.

Strategy

Engineering

Engagement

Ready to build the data foundation?

Tell us what your data looks like today — and what questions you can't answer. We'll come back with a scoped plan and a working warehouse within 4–6 weeks.

Book a Strategy Call
Start Your Project Today

Turn Your Vision IntoReality

Get a free consultation and discover how we can accelerate your product development with AI-powered solutions.

Launch 40% Faster

AI-powered development reduces time-to-market significantly

Scale with Confidence

Built for growth with enterprise-grade architecture

24-Hour Response

We'll get back to you within 24 hours with a detailed proposal

50+
Projects Delivered
100%
Client Satisfaction

🎯 100% Free - No obligation, just expert advice

Get a personalized proposal within 24 hours. Let's turn your vision into reality.