Michael Podgortsev
Technical Director
Most data teams deliver data. Few deliver decisions.
The gap between what data produces and what business leaders actually use to decide is where he works.
Over 15 years, he has sat at that gap: as an architect designing platforms, as a consultant challenging strategy, and as a team leader rebuilding data functions from scratch. He has built data organizations from zero, fixed broken ones, and scaled platforms at the enterprise level.What he has learned: the technology is rarely the problem. The problem is alignment — between data and business goals, between platform capability and decision-making culture, between what the team builds and what executives actually need.
He is sharp on architecture. But his real value is knowing when to stop architecting and start leading.
He writes about data strategy, architecture, and building high-performance data organizations.
