# Databricks consulting in Minneapolis, MN > Medical device manufacturing, two of the country's largest retailers and agricultural trading, all headquartered here rather than branch-officed. If you're on the medtech side you need provable safety from AI, and on the retail side you need speed, and the same runtime serves both. Canonical: https://www.techfabric.com/databricks-consulting-minneapolis Serving: Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Rochester, Duluth Headquarters: 1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201, Gilbert, AZ 85295. No office in Minneapolis. --- ## Why Minneapolis work is our work Your lakehouse must answer an FDA auditor about change history and keep up on the busiest retail day, and the migration to get there has stalled. We finish it on Databricks, with Unity Catalog audit tables and Delta time travel for the auditor and Lakeflow pipelines sized for the peak. Medical Alley's device makers and the retailers headquartered in Richfield and on Nicollet Mall want both, and a health plan wants one. ## Work a buyer here would recognise Retailers and consumer goods companies judge a warehouse by how much more the same floor can move with less manual handling. Funko's warehouse management system was built to cut operating expense and reliance on manual work, and it doubled operational efficiency. ## Every software change has to explain itself Two rulebooks share Minneapolis. Medical Alley's device makers answer to the FDA, whose quality system rule has incorporated ISO 13485 since the QMSR took effect on 2 February 2026. The retailers headquartered on Nicollet Mall and in Richfield answer to PCI DSS for every card they take. On either side, a change to software has to be explainable after the fact. ## Questions ### We build medical devices and run retail. Different requirements. They are, and one platform serves both because the difference is which checkpoints are enforced rather than which system you run. Software informing a clinical decision and a commerce platform under PCI both need an unexplained change to be impossible, which is the same mechanism. ### Do you have an office in Minneapolis? The office is in Gilbert, Arizona, with teams in Amsterdam, Dnipro and Hyderabad. Delivery is remote or hybrid, and we travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build. ## What databricks consulting covers ### Migration off Snowflake, Synapse and Teradata Run through TechFabric Airlift, with executable playbooks for twenty-seven source platforms, signed migration certificates, and a cutover you can reverse at two in the morning. ### Unity Catalog governance Catalogue and schema design, a grant model expressed through groups, row filters and column masks, and lineage that survives a refactor. The boundary your agents and Power BI inherit. ### Lakeflow pipelines Ingestion and Lakeflow jobs with schema evolution handled rather than hoped for, medallion boundaries drawn on purpose, and jobs that recover instead of restarting from zero. ### Databricks Apps and agents Applications that run inside the workspace under their own service principal, and agents on Unity Gateway that inherit catalogue permissions instead of routing around them. ### Genie and AI/BI Metric definitions agreed with the person who owns the number, and a benchmark suite Genie has to keep passing, so the answer holds up when finance checks it. ### Cost that somebody can defend Cluster policies, warehouse sizing, file layout and the queries that actually pay. Instrumented at build time rather than discovered on an invoice. ## Working with us from Arizona Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are one hour behind you from November to March and two hours behind from March to November. A morning standup on your clock is still early afternoon on ours. Most delivery is remote or hybrid. We travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.