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Thoughts on data engineering, machine learning, privacy, and building production systems at scale.

April 2026 8 min read

Building Scalable Data Pipelines in Regulated Industries

Building pipelines is the easy part. Building pipelines that pass an FDA audit, handle millions of records daily in pharma manufacturing, and don't get you fined? That's a completely different game.

Data Engineering Compliance PySpark Azure
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April 2026 6 min read

Data Is Not Just Data: Why Most Companies Get This Wrong

"It's just data." Three words I've heard from too many executives. And every time, I know the conversation is about to go sideways.

Data Governance Privacy GDPR AI
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April 2026 7 min read

From Petroleum Engineering to Data Science: Nobody Plans a Career Like This

I started college as a nursing student. I'm now a doctoral student building graph neural networks. If you told eighteen-year-old me this, I wouldn't have known what half those words meant.

Career Data Science Growth Doctoral Journey
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