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Data that actually drives decisions.

Data platforms, real-time analytics, and the data engineering practice to turn raw events into measurable business decisions.

Overview

Where data becomes a business asset.

Most enterprises have invested heavily in data infrastructure — lakes, warehouses, dashboards, vendors — and ended up with the same problem: data that decision-makers don't trust, can't find, or can't act on. The investment was real; the outcome wasn't.

Alpine Quantum's data practice closes that gap. We design and build data platforms that produce trustworthy data, deliver it to the people who need it, and connect it directly to the business decisions it's meant to drive.

We work across the full data stack: streaming ingestion, lakehouses, warehouses, ML feature stores, BI, and the data governance and quality systems that make all of it operable.

Capabilities

What we build.

Four practice areas covering the full lifecycle from raw event to decision.

01 / PLATFORM

Data Platform Engineering

Build the foundational data infrastructure — lakehouses, warehouses, streaming pipelines — that everything else in your data stack depends on.

  • Lakehouse architectures (Delta, Iceberg)
  • Cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
  • Streaming pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink)
  • Data ingestion & ELT (Airbyte, Fivetran, custom)
  • Lakehouse vs warehouse modernization
02 / PRODUCT

Data Product Development

Build specific data products — recommendation engines, customer 360s, real-time dashboards — that ship measurable business value, not just data.

  • Customer 360 & CDP platforms
  • Real-time analytics & dashboards
  • Forecasting & predictive models
  • Recommendation systems
  • ML feature stores
03 / GOVERN

Data Governance & Quality

The data catalog, lineage, quality monitoring, and access control practices that turn a data swamp into a data platform.

  • Data catalogs (Atlan, DataHub, Collibra)
  • Lineage & observability
  • Data quality monitoring (Monte Carlo)
  • Privacy & regulatory compliance (GDPR, HIPAA)
  • Access control & sharing (Unity Catalog)
04 / BI

Business Intelligence & Analytics

Self-service BI, executive dashboards, embedded analytics — connecting data to decisions in the ways your business actually consumes it.

  • Self-service BI rollouts (Looker, Tableau, Power BI)
  • Executive dashboards & KPI design
  • Embedded analytics in customer-facing apps
  • Semantic layers & metric stores
  • Headless BI & analytics APIs
How we work

Data work, connected to outcomes.

We start with the business question, work backwards to the data and architecture, and refuse to build anything that doesn't connect to a measurable outcome.

phase 01

Frame

Clarify the business decisions the data is meant to support — and define the success metrics before any data engineering begins.

phase 02

Architect

Data model, ingestion strategy, infrastructure choices, and the governance framework that the entire platform will operate within.

phase 03

Build

Iterative delivery of data products with shipped-to-production milestones every sprint — including data quality and observability from day one.

phase 04

Adopt

User enablement, BI rollout, training, and the change management work that ensures the platform is actually used after launch.

Technology

The stack we work in.

A working data platform spans many tools. These are the technologies we deploy most often.

Warehouses
Snowflake, BigQuery
Databricks, Redshift
Lakehouses
Delta Lake, Iceberg
Hudi, Trino
Streaming
Kafka, Kinesis
Flink, Spark Streaming
Pipelines
dbt, Airflow
Dagster, Prefect
ELT
Fivetran, Airbyte
Stitch, Hevo, custom
BI & Viz
Looker, Tableau
Power BI, Metabase
Governance
Unity Catalog, Atlan
DataHub, Collibra
Observability
Monte Carlo, Bigeye
Soda, Great Expectations
FEATURED CLIENT STORY
$24M
Annual revenue impact from a real-time recommendation engine deployed across a national retail footprint

Turning a retailer's clickstream into a real-time revenue engine

A national retail brand had years of clickstream data sitting in cold storage. Alpine Quantum built a Kafka-to-feature-store-to-real-time-recommendation pipeline in 14 weeks, with the recommendation engine deployed to every digital touchpoint by week 18.

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