Hi there! 👋 I’m Valerie. Organizations have engaged me when their data architecture isn’t keeping up with business goals. I’ve helped teams across health care, retail, email marketing, streaming media, financial services, and more figure out the right database strategy for their specific problems, whether that means rethinking how data is modeled, choosing the right system for the workload, or getting an existing setup to perform the way the business needs it to.

The patterns I look for are the ones that connect technical decisions to business outcomes: Will this architecture let you ship features faster? Can your data layer handle the growth you’re planning for? Are you spending engineering time on the right problems?

Here are some of the business problems I’ve helped solve:

• Processing opens and clicks analytics to drive real-time email marketing campaign decisions
• Reducing operational burden so engineers could focus on media streaming development instead of database maintenance
• Making sure a wearable fitness tech platform stayed up during the busy holiday season
• Eliminating outages that were costing telecommunications business revenue and customer trust
• Giving teams visibility into cluster health so they could act before problems reached users of meeting and collaboration software
• Keeping up with the pace of telemetry and geolocation data from a fleet of electric vehicles
• Modernizing a legacy distributed data layer to support restaurant expansion
• Reducing failed reads in a social media product that were degrading the user experience
• Building a data layer that could serve grocery inventory across regions without latency penalties
• Ensuring financial transactions were consistent across data centers
• Enabling faster intake of critical patient data so emergency medical teams could respond sooner

How can I help you?