Enterprise data engineering & design

Your data has layers.
We make them legible.

Selitia designs, builds, and monitors the strata an enterprise runs on: vector systems for meaning, SQL foundations for truth, and cloud architecture that holds both together. One firm, accountable for the whole stack.

Layered
vector · SQL · stream · lake
Measured
SLOs on every pipeline
Designed
architecture as a deliverable

The strata

Four layers, one contract.

Most enterprises have all four of these somewhere. Almost none have them designed as a whole. That gap is where pipelines rot, dashboards drift, and AI initiatives stall.

01

Vector & semantic

Embedding pipelines, similarity search, and retrieval layers built on pgvector and purpose-built stores. Designed for recall you can measure, not vibes. This is the layer your AI products stand on.

  • Embedding strategy and model selection
  • Index design: HNSW, IVF, hybrid lexical + vector
  • Retrieval evaluation harnesses with golden sets
02

Stream & events

The moving layer: change data capture, event buses, and the pipelines that keep every downstream copy honest. Exactly-once where it matters, at-least-once where it doesn't, and documented which is which.

  • CDC from operational databases
  • Kafka topologies and schema registries
  • Backfill and replay as first-class operations
03

SQL core

The layer of record. Warehouse and operational schemas modeled so that one question has one answer, with tested transformations and migrations that are reviewed like code, because they are code.

  • Dimensional and normalized modeling, chosen deliberately
  • dbt transformation graphs with tests and lineage
  • Query performance engineering and cost control
04

Cloud & lake

The ground everything sits on: object storage layouts, table formats, compute topology, network boundaries, and the Terraform that makes all of it reproducible instead of tribal.

  • Lakehouse design on Iceberg and Parquet
  • Multi-cloud and hybrid placement decisions
  • Infrastructure as code, reviewed and versioned

What we do

Three engagements. No retainers-for-nothing.

Analyze

2–4 weeks

A forensic read of the data estate you already have. We trace lineage, measure freshness and cost, find the queries that lie, and hand you a map: what exists, what it costs, what breaks, and in what order to fix it.

Deliverable: the estate atlas, a costed remediation sequence, and an executive readout.

Monitor

ongoing

Data observability as an operated service. Freshness, volume, schema drift, cost anomalies, and retrieval quality tracked against SLOs, with alerts that reach a human who already knows your stack.

Deliverable: a monthly reliability report and a pager that rarely goes off.

Monitoring

Dashboards are decoration.
SLOs are commitments.

Every layer we operate carries explicit service levels: how fresh, how complete, how fast, how much. The console below is a live simulation of the signals we watch, the same four families we instrument on every engagement.

  • Freshness: minutes since each table last told the truth
  • Volume: row deltas against seasonal expectation
  • Drift: schema and distribution changes, caught upstream
  • Spend: cost per query, per team, per layer

Method

How engagements actually run.

  1. Read before write

    We start in your existing systems, not a slide deck. The first artifact is always a map of what is, not a pitch for what could be.

  2. Boundaries before technology

    Layer contracts get drawn first: what each layer promises the one above it. Vendor and tool choices come after, with the rationale written down.

  3. Everything reviewed, everything versioned

    Schemas, transformations, and infrastructure live in repositories with tests and review. If it can't be rolled back, we don't ship it.

  4. Handover is the deliverable

    An engagement ends when your team operates the stack without us, holding runbooks they've already used. Dependence is a failure mode, not a revenue model.

Contact

Bring us a layer that hurts.

A warehouse nobody trusts, a vector search that misses, a cloud bill that grew a comma. Start with the specific pain and we'll scope from there.

hello@selitia.com

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