Data platforms built by someone who's run them at scale.
Kora AI is a veteran-owned data engineering consultancy founded by Sandeep Koralla — 11+ years designing and operating data infrastructure at Amazon, Pinterest, Apple, Microsoft, and PayPal.
Services
Big-tech data engineering practices, applied to companies that can't afford big-tech mistakes. Every engagement ends with running infrastructure and documentation your team owns.
Data platform architecture
Design or modernize your data platform: lakehouse architecture, warehouse design, batch and streaming pipelines, orchestration, and governance — sized for your team, not for a FAANG org chart.
fits: scaling companies
Pipeline & cost rescue
Audit and repair of slow, brittle, or expensive data pipelines. Reliability engineering, SLA design, and cloud cost reduction on Spark, warehouse, and streaming workloads.
fits: teams in pain today
AI & analytics readiness
Get your data estate ready for AI: quality frameworks, feature and vector pipelines, LLM-ready data products, and the metrics layer your dashboards and models both trust.
fits: AI initiatives
Latest writing
Weekly notes on production data engineering — reliability, cost, and architecture, from the trenches.
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Kora AI is founded and run by Sandeep Koralla — a data engineer with 11+ years at Amazon, Pinterest, Apple, Microsoft, and PayPal, and a United States Army veteran.
The through-line of that career: making data infrastructure boring, in the best sense. Pipelines that don't page anyone at 3am, numbers that leadership doesn't have to second-guess, and platforms that stay cheap as they grow.
Kora AI brings that standard to companies outside big tech — directly, without account managers or bench staffing. You work with the engineer doing the work.