Independent Principal Practice • 20+ Yrs Enterprise Experience • US & Cross-Border B2B

Senior Data Architecture & Delivery Capacity for US Data Boutiques

Datastak provides white-label subcontract capacity for US data consultancies when client SOWs exceed in-house engineering bandwidth. Leveraging cross-border nearshore economics, we enable US partners to deploy a 20+ year veteran architect on enterprise engagements while preserving healthy practice gross margins.

contact@datastak.ca Direct architect response • Eastern Time (ET)

Technical Capabilities

Cloud Warehouses & Lakehouses

Analytical store design, multi-cluster compute governance, partitioning schemes, and query cost-containment (auditing runaway cloud spend and eliminating slow queries).

Snowflake • Google BigQuery • Databricks • Oracle / Enterprise RDBMS

Pipelines, dbt & Dimensional Modeling

Kimball star-schema design, medallion architectures (Bronze/Silver/Gold), automated schema assertions, refactoring brittle SQL views into tested dbt DAGs, and legacy ETL migrations.

dbt Core/Cloud • Kimball Dimensional Modeling • Apache Airflow • Airbyte • Matillion • Talend • Python / SQL

Semantic Layers & Modern BI

Enterprise metric modeling, DirectLake architectures (bypassing Power BI dataset import bottlenecks), complex DAX formulation, and executive reporting suites.

Microsoft Fabric • Power BI • Looker Studio

Subcontracting & Partnership Terms

Boutique of One • Senior-Only Delivery Direct execution by an independent principal architect with 20+ years in mission-critical data systems. No junior developers, no account managers, and zero agency overhead.

White-Label Representation Seamless representation under your firm's banner on client Slack, standups, and Git repos.

High-Margin Subcontract Economics Competitive nearshore USD rates structured to preserve strong practice margins (40–55%+) against your enterprise billable tiers. Zero payroll overhead or benefits drag.

Frictionless Cross-Border Tax Model Ontario Corp (C2C). Standard IRS Form W-8BEN-E provided for 0% US withholding under Canada-US Treaty Article VII. Direct USD ACH / Wire settlement. Zero export sales tax.