Data Solutions Company

Build the data foundation everything else depends on, modern warehouses, lakehouses, and pipelines on Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Redshift, engineered for analytics, AI, and decisions that need to be right the first time.

TRUSTED. CERTIFIED. PROVEN.

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The shift

Why modern data platforms are a competitive advantage

Every major business decision and AI capability now depends on reliable data. Companies with modern data foundations move faster, ship AI sooner, and avoid brittle pipelines, conflicting metrics, and untrusted dashboards. That’s why founders, operators, and enterprise teams are investing in serious data infrastructure in 2026.

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The gap

Why most data engagements fall short

Big firms deliver slow, expensive data programs with rigid architectures. Offshore shops build fragile pipelines that break with schema drift. Internal teams rely on duct-taped stacks nobody can maintain, while vendors push platforms that create lock-in or sprawl.
That's where ZAPTA steps in, senior data engineers and platform architects who treat data infrastructure as production-grade engineering, AI-augmented pipeline development, vendor-neutral architecture decisions, and engagement structures that deliver shippable value every wave instead of multi-year megaprojects.

Who we help most

How we help

How ZAPTA delivers data solutions

We offer four main ways to help, pick the one that matches the data challenge you need to solve:

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How we help

How ZAPTA delivers data solutions

We offer four main ways to help, pick the one that matches the data challenge you need to solve:

Greenfield data platforms

You're building your data foundation from scratch, or replacing a duct-taped first version with something durable. We design and build modern data platforms on Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift, including ingestion, transformation, modeling, and access layers. Most greenfield platforms ship in 8 to 16 weeks.

Data warehouse / lakehouse modernization

Your current data warehouse, Teradata, Oracle, on-prem Hadoop, legacy SQL Server, has hit scale, cost, or capability limits. We modernize to a cloud-native platform with proper migration discipline, parallel running, and validated cutover. Most modernization programs run 12 to 24 weeks.

ELT pipeline & data engineering

You have a platform but need pipelines built, bringing data from your SaaS apps, transactional databases, event streams, and external sources into the warehouse, modeled cleanly with dbt or equivalent transformation tools. Most pipeline engagements run 4 to 12 weeks depending on source count and complexity.

AI-ready Data foundations

Your data platform needs to support AI and ML, feature stores, vector databases, training data pipelines, model observability, and AI-grade data governance. We design and implement AI-ready data foundations integrated with your existing platform. Most AI-readiness engagements run 6 to 12 weeks.

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Engagement models

Flexible Ways to Work With ZAPTA

Every data platform project is different, so is every team's budget, scale, and operational maturity. Choose the engagement model that matches how you want to work.

Fixed Cost Projects

Clear scope. Clear price. Clear timeline.

Ideal for teams with clear scope, first warehouse build, defined pipeline package, or focused modernization. We scope, design, and deliver against fixed pricing, including platform setup, and observability. Perfect for first data platforms, focused pipeline projects, and bounded modernization work.

Best for

Founders building first platforms, SMEs running discrete data projects, fixed-budget enterprise pilots.

Nearshore Teams

Senior engineering talent in your time zone

The default option for organizations building durable data platforms or modernizing at scale. We organize programs into 4 to 8-week waves, each shipping production value building organizational momentum and compounding investment value across the program.

Best for

Most enterprise data programs covering platform build, modernization, and AI-readiness work.

Dedicated Teams

A full squad, working only on your product.

A long-term data partnership where senior data engineers, analytics engineers, and a delivery lead embed with your team to run pipelines, modeling, observability, AI-data work, and continuous improvement, with senior expertise without permanent hires.

Best for

Enterprises and scale-ups running ongoing data platform programs at portfolio scale.

Custom quotations

Every project is different. Your quote should be too.

For multi-region platforms, regulated industries, AI-heavy foundations, real-time streaming, M&A consolidation, or complex constraints, ZAPTA builds a tailored quote around your scale, program, and required outcome. We respond within 24 hours.

Best for

Enterprise, regulated, or non-standard data platform engagements that don't fit a template.

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Diagnostic

Signs you need a data solutions partner

If any of these sound familiar, it's time to bring in senior data engineering expertise:

01

Three teams in the company report three different numbers for the same metric, and nobody can authoritatively say which is right.

02

Your data team's busiest activity is firefighting broken pipelines, not building new analytics or supporting AI.

03

You're shipping AI products but your training data is questionable, and your model observability is non-existent.

04

Your existing data warehouse, Teradata, Oracle, legacy SQL Server, or on-prem Hadoop, has become slow, expensive, or both.

05

Your stack is duct-taped Airflow + Python + CSV exports, and onboarding a new engineer takes weeks because nothing is documented.

06

Your CFO and your COO can't agree on which dashboard tells the truth, and the disagreement keeps recurring.

07

You want real-time analytics or operational AI, but everything you have is batched daily or worse.

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Services

Why Custom Software Is a Competitive Advantage

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Data warehouse implementation
Production-grade data warehouse build on Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Synapse — including dimensional modeling, performance tuning, and access governance.
Data lakehouse architecture
Lakehouse implementation on Databricks, Snowflake, or open-table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi) — supporting analytics, ML, and real-time on one foundation.
ELT pipeline engineering
Modern ELT pipelines using Fivetran, Airbyte, Stitch, and custom ingestion — with dbt-based transformations, testing, and CI/CD.
Data modeling & dbt
Dimensional modeling, data vault, and dbt-based transformation development — turning raw data into analytics-ready models with tests, documentation, and lineage.
Real-time data streaming
Streaming platforms with Kafka, Kinesis, Confluent, and Flink — including change data capture, stream processing, and real-time materialized views.
Data migration & modernization
Migration from legacy warehouses (Teradata, Oracle, on-prem Hadoop) to cloud-native platforms with parallel running, validation, and rollback discipline.
Reverse ETL & operational analytics
Reverse ETL with Hightouch, Census, and Workato to push warehouse data back into operational systems — making data actionable inside CRM, marketing, and support tools.
AI / ML data foundations
Feature stores, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant), training data pipelines, evaluation datasets, and ML observability.
Data quality & observability
Data quality monitoring with Monte Carlo, Bigeye, Soda, and dbt tests — surfacing incidents before they reach dashboards or models.
Master data management (MDM)
MDM implementation including entity resolution, golden records, and reference data management for organizations consolidating customer, product, or supplier data.
Data platform operations
Ongoing data platform stewardship — pipeline monitoring, cost optimization, performance tuning, and continuous improvement.

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Process

How Our Custom Software Development Process Works

Every software project follows a clear three-phase lifecycle, broken into execution sprints underneath. Full builds typically run 8 to 16 weeks. Internal tools and bounded projects often ship in 4 to 8 weeks.

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Phase 1

Consult and Align

Discovery, strategy, planning, requirement gathering, roadmap alignment.

Phase 2

Design and Engineer

UI/UX, architecture, development, testing, iteration.

Phase 3

Deploy and Maintain

Launch, monitoring, support, optimization, scaling.

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AI Delivery for Scalable Business Solutions

We help clients save time, reduce costs, and ship more reliable data platforms by combining senior data engineers with AI-accelerated tools. Every phase of our data lifecycle is accelerated by AI, from source-system discovery and SQL generation to dbt model authoring, test scaffolding, documentation generation, and pipeline observability, letting our teams ship in weeks what traditional firms take quarters to deliver. Senior data engineers still own every architectural decision, every data model, every quality gate.

Stack

Tools We Use for Custom Software Projects

Our technology stack combines proven frameworks, cloud platforms, and modern DevOps tooling — chosen for performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

AWS
AWS
GCP
GCP
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Azure
Vercel
Netlify
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Docker
AWS
AWS
GCP
GCP
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Azure
Vercel
Netlify
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Docker
AWS
AWS
GCP
GCP
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Azure
Vercel
Netlify
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Docker
AWS
AWS
GCP
GCP
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Azure
Vercel
Netlify
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Docker
AWS
AWS
GCP
GCP
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Azure
Vercel
Netlify
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Docker
AWS
AWS
GCP
GCP
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Azure
Vercel
Netlify
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Docker
AWS
AWS
GCP
GCP
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Azure
Vercel
Netlify
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Docker
AWS
AWS
GCP
GCP
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Azure
Vercel
Netlify
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Docker

Work

Real Software Projects We've Shipped

Real scenarios where founders, operators, and enterprise teams brought us in to build software that shipped to production:

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Deliverables

What you get when you work with ZAPTA

Every data engagement ships with production-ready outputs your team owns long-term:

Why ZAPTA

Why founders and teams choose ZAPTA

Many companies offer data services. Here's what makes ZAPTA a specialist data solutions partner:

Industries

Industries we serve

Regulated, data-heavy, and fast-moving sectors where custom software is a business requirement, not a nice-to-have.

SaaS & B2B Software
SaaS & B2B Software
SOC 2, ISO 27001, and enterprise-grade security architecture for B2B SaaS preparing for upmarket sales.
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FinTech & Financial Services
FinTech & Financial Services
PCI DSS, SOC 2, and audit-ready architectures for payment platforms, banking-as-a-service, and financial APIs.
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Healthcare & MedTech
Healthcare & MedTech
HIPAA, HITRUST, and BAA-aligned architectures with PHI protection and clinical-grade audit logging.
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AI & Generative AI
AI & Generative AI
AI security covering prompt injection, training-data leakage, model abuse, and AI governance (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act).
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E-commerce & Retail
E-commerce & Retail
PCI DSS scope reduction, fraud prevention, and consumer data protection (CCPA, GDPR) at high transaction volumes.
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Insurance & Legal
Insurance & Legal
Document and case-data security covering SOC 2, GDPR, and industry-specific regulatory requirements.
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Enterprise & Government
Enterprise & Government
ISO 27001, SOC 2, and OT/IT convergence security for enterprise and industrial cloud platforms.
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Other services

Beyond data solutions,full-stack services

Data platforms are one part of a complete data strategy. ZAPTA is a complete technology company, we design, build, and scale the full stack alongside your data program so you can ship a complete data operation, not just a warehouse.

Predictive insights
AI/ML predictive models built on your data platform foundation.
Data security & compliance
Data classification, DLP, masking, and AI-data governance for your data platform.
AI solution advisory
AI strategy and roadmaps that depend on the data foundation we build.
Cloud strategy & architecture
Vendor-neutral cloud strategy with data residency and compliance built into the topology.
AI development
Production AI agents, LLM-powered applications, and intelligent automation built on your data platform.
Custom software development
Custom applications and platforms with security and compliance designed in from day one.
Support & managed services
Ongoing managed-services for workflow operations, exception handling, and continuous improvement.

Need more than just data security?

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Questions

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How long does it take to build custom software?

Single-application migrations typically run 4 to 12 weeks. Multi-application programs run 6 to 24 months across multiple waves. Data center exits run 9 to 36 months depending on portfolio size. Database migrations run 8 to 16 weeks for production-grade cutover with minimal downtime. We commit to fixed wave dates during scoping so you can plan around them.

Pricing depends on portfolio size, migration patterns, data complexity, and engagement model. We offer fixed-cost migration sprints, wave-based programs, dedicated squads, and custom quotations. Most programs pay for themselves within 12 to 24 months through cloud savings, license reduction, and decommissioned infrastructure. Book a call for a tailored quote within 24 hours.
Four primary models: Fixed-Cost Migration Sprints for single applications, Wave-Based Migration Programs for multi-application portfolios, Dedicated Migration Squads for multi-year enterprise programs, and Custom Quotations for regulated or non-standard work. We’ll recommend the right fit during discovery.
Most production migrations target zero customer-visible downtime through Change Data Capture, dual-write strategies, blue-green deployment, and rehearsed cutover discipline. Some workloads require brief planned maintenance windows — we’ll be transparent about which ones and why during scoping.
All three major clouds — AWS, GCP, and Azure — plus Oracle Cloud and specialty providers when relevant. We also handle multi-cloud and hybrid migrations. Cloud choice is driven by your business and technical needs, not vendor bias on our end. If you don’t have a target cloud chosen yet, our Cloud Strategy & Architecture engagement comes first.
Yes — stalled migration recovery is one of our most common engagements. We start with an independent assessment of what’s blocking, what’s salvageable, and what’s the fastest path to completion. Most stalled migrations recover within 4 to 12 weeks of taking over, depending on remaining scope.
Yes. Oracle to PostgreSQL or Aurora, SQL Server to managed cloud equivalents, MongoDB to Atlas, and similar migrations are core specialties. We handle schema conversion, Change Data Capture, dual-write strategies, application code refactoring, and validated cutover. Most database migrations target near-zero downtime.
Yes. For regulated industries (healthcare, finance, government), we maintain compliance throughout the migration — HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC 2, FedRAMP. Audit trails are preserved, encryption is maintained in-flight and at-rest, and BAA / DPA agreements are in place before sensitive data is touched.
Yes. You own everything — final architecture, IaC modules, migration scripts, cutover playbooks, runbooks, observability configuration, and all deliverables. Full IP assignment is signed before kickoff. No lock-in, no leverage, no dependency on us going forward.
Yes — and most clients continue with us. After migration, we offer ongoing support and managed services covering application maintenance, cloud operations, continuous improvement, and SRE. There’s no obligation to use ZAPTA for ongoing support, but the same senior team that ran the migration is available with full continuity.
Yes. Data center exit is a specialized migration discipline — multi-application coordination, network bridging, hardware decommission, license retirement, contract close-out, and exit certification. We’ve delivered data center exits ranging from 50 to 500+ workloads across 12 to 36-month programs.

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