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Our team

The people who answer your call

Forty-two consultants across data engineering, machine learning, platform and governance. These are the people who lead the work.

Leadership

Who runs what

Ray Novak

Ray Novak

Co-founder & Chair

Twenty years in analytics leadership before Gridline. Reviews every roadmap before it reaches a client.

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Erin Castellanos

Erin Castellanos

Chief Executive

Led delivery for seven years before taking over the firm. Still writes the hard scoping documents herself.

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Devon Pruitt

Devon Pruitt

Head of Data Engineering

Owns the modelling standards that keep every client's warehouse readable by the next engineer.

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Tasha Bramley

Tasha Bramley

Head of Machine Learning

Decides which use cases are worth building, and says no to the ones that are not.

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Owen Mbeki

Owen Mbeki

Head of Platform & MLOps

Runs the shared on-call rota and the cost reviews nobody else wants to chair.

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Lauren Fisk

Lauren Fisk

Head of Governance & AI Risk

Translates GDPR and the EU AI Act into controls engineers can actually implement.

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We hire slowly and keep people long

Most of our engineers came from the client side, and most have stayed more than four years. If you want to build things that outlive your involvement, the door is open.

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