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About Data Cats

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Data Cats is a senior engineering practice focused on cloud-native software and data platform delivery. We work directly in production codebases, design for operability, and ship with testing and deployment discipline.

Our Philosophy

We prioritize clear requirements, architecture decisions with explicit tradeoffs, and delivery plans that can be tracked. Every engagement is structured to reduce risk early, then execute with disciplined implementation and review.

Our Team

Ian Gifford

Lead Developer and Cloud SME

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional. Ian has consulted on Amazon teams building petabyte-scale data processing systems and now helps clients ship reliable cloud-native platforms.