Who We Are

Not a vendor.
A technical partner.

Drapy Technologies was built on a frustration — watching enterprises haemorrhage money on consultants who advised but never built, delivered slide decks instead of systems, and disappeared the moment something broke. We exist to be the team that actually does the work.

Our Origin

Built from frustration
with the status quo.

We spent years inside enterprise organisations watching the same failure pattern repeat: large consulting firms sending junior teams, deploying templated solutions, and leaving behind systems nobody understood or could maintain.

Drapy was built to occupy the gap — a tight team of senior architects who move at startup speed, hold enterprise standards, and are fully accountable to outcomes — not hours billed.

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The Gap We Fill
Big Consulting
Slow. Generic. Expensive. Junior delivery teams behind senior logos.
← Drapy →
In-house Only
Understaffed. No architecture oversight. High risk of rework.
Senior team on every engagement — always
Startup execution speed, enterprise discipline
Full knowledge transfer — your team owns it
Milestone accountability — pay on delivery
No vanishing act post go-live
The Team

Practitioners first.
Consultants second.

Everyone at Drapy has built real systems at scale — not just advised on them. Our leadership brings hands-on experience from organisations at the cutting edge of data engineering.

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Data Architecture Lead

Principal Architect & Co-founder

15+ years designing large-scale data platforms across retail, media, and financial services. Architected pipelines processing billions of events daily. Believes the best system is the one your team can actually maintain after we leave.

LinkedInAkamaiSheffield MSc
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AI & Analytics Lead

Principal Data Scientist & Co-founder

Specialist in production ML systems, agentic AI, and predictive modelling. Built recommendation and demand-forecasting models used by millions of consumers. Obsessive about the gap between demo accuracy and production reliability.

DisneyHCLML Systems
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Platform Engineering Lead

Senior Data Engineer

Expert in streaming architectures, cloud migrations, and pipeline performance. Specialist in moving businesses off legacy Oracle and on-premise Hadoop to modern cloud-native stacks — without a single day of operational downtime.

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Depth of Expertise

Where we are
genuinely deep.

Cloud Data Architecture98%
Data Pipeline Engineering97%
Business Intelligence & BI Tools95%
Real-time Streaming (Kafka/Flink)93%
Snowflake & Databricks96%
Machine Learning & MLOps92%
Agentic AI & LLM Systems88%
dbt & Analytics Engineering95%
Cloud Cost Optimisation90%
Data Governance & Security87%
Credentials

Built at scale.
Applied to yours.

The organisations we've worked inside were building systems for millions of users, petabytes of data, and zero tolerance for downtime. We bring that same engineering culture to companies building their first serious data platform.

LinkedIn
Data Engineering & Platform Architecture
The Walt Disney Company
Data Science & Consumer Analytics
Akamai Technologies
Distributed Systems & CDN Analytics
HCL Technologies
Enterprise Data Platforms & Engineering
University of Sheffield
MSc Computer Science — Advanced Degrees
How We Operate

Four principles that guide
every engagement.

01

Architectural Honesty

We tell you what you actually need — even when it's not what you asked for. If your biggest problem isn't what you think, we say so in week one, not week twelve.

02

Senior-Only Delivery

Nobody gets handed off to a junior team after you sign. The people who design your solution are the people who build it. Every time. No exceptions.

03

Ownership Transfer

We're not in the business of creating dependency. Every engagement ends with your team holding the keys — fully documented, trained, and capable of extending what we built.

04

Measured Outcomes

We agree on what success looks like before we start. Every milestone has a measurable definition of done. If we haven't hit it, you don't pay for it.

Want to build something
that actually lasts?

We're selective about what we take on. One conversation is all it takes to know if there's a fit.

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