Portrait of Kris Kokomoor

Bridging Silicon, Cloud, and Agentic AI for Regulated Industries

Reliable Data Platforms. High-Stakes Reporting. Senior Technical Leadership.

I help organizations with rigorous compliance and reporting requirements build resilient data platforms. Whether it's sensor data from the edge or complex cloud-native warehouses, I bridge the gap between embedded systems, analytics modernization, and AI-augmented workflows to ensure your data is auditable, automated, and above all, trustworthy.

Principal lead & embedded builder Audit-ready compliance (GXP/Healthcare) IoT & Embedded Systems (C++/ESP32) Agentic AI Workflows (OpenClaw) GCP & AWS Cloud Architecture

The "Best Fit" for My Expertise

I specialize in environments where "close enough" isn't an option. My work is most impactful for:

High-Stakes Reporting & Compliance

Organizations in healthcare, finance, or aerospace that require absolute traceability, rigorous validation, and audit-ready data flows.

Scaling Startups & Modernization

Teams outgrowing spreadsheet-heavy reporting who need a practical, hands-on lead to build a governed analytics foundation.

Edge-to-Cloud (IoT) Initiatives

Companies bridging the gap between hardware (ESP32/Embedded) and the cloud, requiring unified engineering across the entire data lifecycle.

AI-Ready Infrastructure

Teams looking to integrate agentic AI not as a gimmick, but as a robust operational layer for automated pipeline management and diagnostics.

What I Help Teams Deliver

Governed Analytics Platforms

Move critical business logic from Excel, Google Sheets, and one-off SQL into governed warehouse models, orchestration, and documented operating practices.

Agentic Cloud Operations

Leverage agentic augmentation to automate dbt and BigQuery pipeline configuration, reducing manual overhead and improving management at scale.

Cloud Architectures That Hold Up in Production

Design event-driven, cloud-native platforms on GCP or AWS using practical patterns that balance delivery speed, maintainability, observability, and long-term cost control.

Audit-Ready Regulated Data Workflows

Build auditable ingestion, transformation, and delivery systems for healthcare and other high-stakes environments where traceability and validation cannot be treated as afterthoughts.

Why Companies Hire Me

Trusted Numbers

Reliable pipelines, governed transformations, and clearer ownership help teams make revenue and operating decisions with less debate.

Faster Delivery

I work hands-on across architecture, implementation, debugging, and operations, which shortens the path from diagnosis to production improvement.

Cost Awareness

Platform choices are tied to business value, cloud spend visibility, and maintainability, not abstract architectural fashion.

Representative Engagement Outcomes

  • Agentic dbt/BigQuery management: Implemented agent-augmented workflows for automated dbt model generation and BigQuery partition management, significantly reducing configuration drift.
  • AI-assisted validation: Explored LLM-assisted anomaly detection and metadata-aware validation to accelerate triage and improve reliability in regulated data pipelines.
  • Agentic systems exploration: Built local agent-based environments using OpenClaw to explore persistent context, tool invocation, and multi-step reasoning for engineering automation.
  • Reliability remediation: Built an early-warning framework with Airflow, dbt tests, BigQuery metrics, and Slack alerts so pipeline failures surfaced before they became executive surprises.
  • Cloud ingestion hardening: Designed Gen2 Cloud Functions based ingestion services with validation, schema control, and robust handling for bursty workloads.

Experience Snapshot

AI & Agentic Systems Exploration (2025-Present)

Integrating LLMs into engineering workflows using OpenClaw for structured output generation, pipeline diagnostics, and automated validation frameworks.

Podimetrics (2024-2025)

Principal quality and platform engineering for GCP. Explored LLM-assisted validation and anomaly detection to accelerate triage in regulated healthcare pipelines.

SURL Founder (2023-2024)

Designed and built secure AWS transfer infrastructure with Kafka, Python services, PostgreSQL, Terraform, observability, and explicit cloud cost accountability.

Pfizer (2009-2023)

Senior technical leadership across clinical data processing, DICOM archive search, data anonymization analysis, modernization, and validated systems in regulated environments.

Where I Have Built

Podimetrics logo Pfizer logo

Core Technologies

Python logo Google Cloud logo Apache Airflow logo dbt logo BigQuery logo Cloud Run logo

Frequently Asked Questions

What engagement models do you support?

I support a range of needs including project-based consulting, fractional leadership (Head of Data/Platform), contract-to-hire engagements, and permanent leadership roles for organizations looking for long-term ownership.

What engagement shape works best?

Most projects start with an assessment or a narrowly scoped remediation effort, then expand into implementation, fractional leadership, or permanent placement if the fit is right.

What kinds of stacks do you usually improve?

Typical stacks include Python, SQL, Airflow, dbt, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Snowflake, AWS infrastructure, and observability tooling.

How I Work

Diagnose Fast

I start by locating the trust gaps, operational risks, and architectural constraints that are actually slowing the business down.

Lead With Practicality

I favor phased improvements, clear ownership, and operating discipline over abstract redesigns that are expensive to adopt.

Build and Handoff

I work hands-on through implementation and stabilization, then leave behind architecture clarity, monitoring, and a team that can keep moving.

Need a Senior Partner for Modernization, Reliability, or Regulated Data Work?

If your team is wrestling with pipeline instability, spreadsheet bottlenecks, metric trust issues, or regulated data complexity, I can help assess the problem, define a practical roadmap, and lead the implementation.

kris.kokomoor@gmail.com

Best fit: startups scaling analytics, teams that need a 3- to 6-month technical lead, healthcare data organizations, and companies with high-stakes reporting or compliance requirements.