Datacraft
Let’s build excellence.
Datacraft, LLC is the consulting firm of Sam Briesemeister, with occasional partnerships and collaborations with trusted specialists and colleagues, who love creating business agility through organizational change, systematic learning, developing a culture of leadership, and where needed, engineering and technical advisory services.
We’re here to help you achieve your strategic impact. We find and develop optimal paths for rapidly aligning stakeholders, improving processes, selecting and integrating technologies, and leading innovation through cross-functional dialogue.
We bring significant expertise in cloud and edge computing, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, cloud-native application architecture, and general software development, integrating disciplines from business intelligence, analytics and product development.
Consulting Services
- Engineering Leadership
- Does your team need help creating an environment for successful, mission-aligned innovation? Datacraft's proven leadership methods can help your organization and your staff realize their full potential, by engaging teams in time-critical projects, designing organizational systems oriented to strategic outcomes, management process and tooling to support continuous alignment.
- Lean Product Development
- Agility is fundamentally the ability to respond to customer feedback, and get value into their hands faster. Whether your product is in its earliest prototyping phase, or you already have customers who trust and rely on your product for mission-critical functions, there's room to streamline planning, prioritization, and development processes. Datacraft's end-to-end scoping, design and iteration methods can help your business become more agile, and delight your customers in new ways.
- Business Intelligence
- How does your organization learn what's working, what's not, and where new opportunities and efficiencies can be created? Data pipelines, data warehouses, and dashboards are a great start, but you'll want to implement a continuous improvement and growth strategy in your BI practice, so it can evolve with your market and your business. Datacraft can help you start on the right foot, desigining your schemata for growth and flexibility, while accelerating insights in the earliest stages of your pipeline.
- Kubernetes
- Kubernetes is rapidly becoming the defacto standard in cloud-native platforms, and for good reason. Kubernetes is a very flexible, capable, and robust system; but with that comes complexities that your organization needs to understand and manage. Datacraft's expertise can help you design a Kubernetes integration plan, adoption strategy, and all the associated infrastructure management processes, in on-prem bare-metal and public cloud alike. Need advice on porting your applications across clouds with Kubernetes? We're here for that too.
- Cloud Computing
- Are you all-in on public cloud? Good for you! Let's make sure you're using the right services and cloud capabilities for your product, platform, and customer needs. Whether you've built your own on-prem cloud, or you rely strictly on the vendor services from AWS, GCP, or Azure, Datacraft can help you plan migrations, define adoption strategies, and implement application architectures that let you scale to meet customer demand, while ensuring business continuity with fault-tolerant systems design.
- DevOps
- Datacraft believes that DevOps is an organizational alignment and integration posture, not just a set of tools and tech. Every strategic change requires evolution in three critical domains: people, process, and technology. DevOps is the integration of all three. Datacraft can help you mature your organizational capabilities in this arena, while accelerating time-to-value on every product or systems change with strong testing, in-depth quality assurance, and full-spectrum automation.
- Software Architecture, Design Review
- Are you prototyping a new solution? Is this a new problem you're just now exploring? Or perhaps you've validated your prototype against customer requirements, and now want to ensure that it can scale to meet a broader market? Datacraft can help you identify the right patterns and principles for sustainable, high-quality software releases, leveraging the best-fit platforms, products, and technologies for your organization.
- Systems Audit
- When platforms and systems have been adopted without governance up-front, they often experience configuration drift, and may be hard to bring into compliance (or consistency, at least) without significant investigative work. Datacraft provides expertise, training, practices and tooling to identify problematic configurations in cloud systems, and can help your team safeguard your strategic platforms.
If your organization needs support or guidance in any of these areas, please don’t hesitate to contact us.