Databricks consulting · Seattle, WA
Databricks consulting for Seattle companies
Auditors keep asking where every copy of a customer lives, and with duplicates across the warehouse nobody can prove a deletion. We migrate the estate onto one governed lakehouse, with Unity Catalog lineage showing every copy, Delta making deletion provable and cost policies set as tables move. Washington's My Health My Data Act sharpens that here, for online retailers as much as Bellevue software companies and First Hill clinics.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ engineers, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Tacoma
Cloud software on the Eastside, commerce at global scale and the aircraft Boeing assembles in Everett and Renton, the very abstract and the very physical in one metro. Whichever side you work on, governance, evaluation and what a system costs to keep running tend to come up in the first meeting rather than the last.
AzureTechFabric is a Databricks partner with an award-winning Databricks engineering team, 80 of them Databricks-certified, and a Temporal partner. Where a system reaches past the workspace we build on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
Databricks Community Genie-Powered App Challenge, September 2026. Second place worldwide, judged and announced by Databricks.
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.
In Washington, a shopping basket can be health data
Seattle sits under Washington's My Health My Data Act, which reaches well past hospitals to the online retailers of South Lake Union and the warehouses of the Kent Valley. Infer a health condition from a shopping basket and you hold consumer health data, which needs consent to collect or share and must be deleted on request, backups included. Consumers can sue under the state's Consumer Protection Act.
Most commerce estates can't prove a deletion, because nobody knows how many copies of a customer exist. There's the order table in the warehouse, a marketing extract, a feature store for recommendations and three analysts' notebooks. We won't call a deletion done until lineage can list every table that held that customer, and the run that removed them has left a record of its own.
The first two weeks map copies. We switch on Unity Catalog lineage across the estate, tag the columns that could reveal health information, and run one real deletion request end to end, timing each step through to the Delta VACUUM that removes the old files. What breaks becomes the backlog, and the migration is planned around it.
Clients we have done this for
Online orders end in a warehouse, where software has to keep pace with physical work. At Funko, the warehouse management system was built to cut operating expense, reduce reliance on manual work and double throughput efficiency, and operational efficiency doubled.
Warehouse management
Funko
Funko consolidated its distribution into one Arizona warehouse and needed the system running it to keep up. Our engineers went on-site and sat with the warehouse and operations teams, extended the module Funko already had instead of starting over, and the warehouse doubled its operational efficiency.
How an engagement runs
01
Two weeks, fixed fee
A Databricks Health Check reads the workspace and returns a scorecard: compute cost, job reliability and Unity Catalog gaps, with what to fix first. You keep the document either way.
02
Scope you can defend
For a migration, the two-week Migration Readiness Sprint inventories the estate, agrees exclusions and hands you a wave plan before anyone picks a date.
03
Build in your workspace
The work runs in your workspace and your repository, with your engineers in it from the first week, so the pattern is one they can extend.
04
Hand over with the reasoning
A written record of what was decided and why, which the next platform lead almost never gets.
Two weeks, fixed fee, and a written plan whether or not you build it with us.
Tell an engineer what you want to build
A senior engineer reads it and replies within one business day, usually with the questions that decide the first two weeks.
Around Seattle
Spark on the Eastside, SQL Server downtown
The Seattle Spark+AI Meetup is the volunteer-run room for Apache Spark users across Seattle and the Eastside, hosted several evenings a year by member companies in Bellevue. Downtown, Redgate chose the Hyatt Regency on Howell Street for PASS Summit West in 2026, a training day and two conference days for people who run data platforms, and the UW eScience Institute applies data science and AI to research across campus.
A SQL Server estate on Azure has both kinds of people in it, the ones who'd run a lakehouse day to day and the ones who'd build it, and a migration plan has to answer to each. Washington adds a deletion question. Its My Health My Data Act gives consumers the right to have their health data deleted, and proving that across every copy is what Unity Catalog lineage and Delta are for.
The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area. Washington: King, Pierce and Snohomish counties.
Lighter shape: the city itself. Dot: downtown. County boundaries from the US Census Bureau, 2023.
Meetup · Several evenings a year
Seattle Spark+AI Meetup
Volunteer-run and hosted by member companies, this Eastside room lets Apache Spark users weigh what open source covers against what a managed platform adds.
Volunteer organisers. Rotates between member companies' offices in Bellevue.
University · Ongoing degree programme, 18 months full-time or 30 part-time
Master of Science in Data Science, University of Washington
Its two-quarter capstone is built for an outside organisation, so a company with shareable data and a narrow question can get a first answer from students.
University of Washington, with the eScience Institute. University of Washington, Seattle, evening classes.
University · Ongoing
UW eScience Institute
For a team migrating research-grade data, the institute's work across campus is a reference for keeping analysis reproducible once tables move.
University of Washington. University of Washington, Seattle.
Conference · 9 to 11 November 2026
PASS Summit West 2026
PASS Summit brings the SQL Server community to downtown Seattle for three days in November, the place to hear how Microsoft data teams are planning their next platform before you choose yours.
Redgate. Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell St, Downtown.
Each listing was checked on its organiser's own page on 12 October 2026. Dates and venues move, so the link is the source.
FAQ
Databricks consulting in Seattle: common questions
Do you work with Seattle companies?
Yes, and with companies across the United States. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so from March to November we are on the same clock as you and from November to March we are an hour ahead. Either way the working day overlaps almost completely.
Do you have an office in Seattle?
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.
How do you handle deletion and retention across a commerce estate?
As a platform capability rather than a policy page. Retention rules and deletion requests act on the event log and the projections derived from it, so a deletion is a real operation with a record rather than a job somebody runs and hopes about.
What makes you an award-winning Databricks engineering team?
In September 2026 Prove It, an app built by TechFabric engineer Ivan Vydrin, was named a winner in the Creativity & Originality track of the Databricks Community Genie-Powered App Challenge, placing second worldwide in a contest Databricks ran and judged. The announcement is on community.databricks.com and the code is public.
What level of Databricks partner are you?
TechFabric is a Databricks partner. We don't publish a tier, because tiers measure commercial relationship as much as engineering depth, and we would rather be judged on the bench and the work. Eighty of our engineers are certified, we run our own business on the stack, and the four accelerators we bring are open source.
Learn Databricks first, free
The engineers who do this work wrote a free manual for the platform, forty-three chapters from the account up, with a guided first hour on Free Edition. Most teams have somebody who needs it before anybody needs us.
How to learn Databricks
A path from zero to production: what to read, what to build, which certification is worth sitting, and in what order.
Getting started on Free Edition
From a free account to a governed table, a dashboard, a Genie answer and a small agent, in about an hour and at no cost.
Gilbert Databricks User Group
The meetup we organise, with recordings of past sessions.
Also in Seattle
What else we build for Seattle companies.
AI consulting and development in Seattle
An agent that demos well won't reach production until someone can show how it's governed, how it's scored and what it costs to run all day.
Software development in Seattle
Headcount won't arrive this quarter, and the order process spread across six systems still stops halfway whenever one step times out.
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The same work, in other metros. The full list is here.
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