ZAK DATA SOLUTIONS
Data Engineering · Data Governance · Applied AI / MLOps
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned
Small Business (SDVOSB)
Sole proprietorship · Zachary Kysar, Principal
Zachary Kysar, Principal — M.S. in Artificial Intelligence; MBA (Babson College); U.S. Army veteran (service-disabled); 10+ years production data engineering & ML operations.
978-808-7340  ·  zak@zacharykysar.com  ·  zacharykysar.com  ·  5 Farrwood Rd, Windham, NH 03087
UEI HADPGKG7GN26CAGE 78DL6SAM.gov active since 2014SBA VetCert SDVOSB — activeSet-aside SDVOSB set-aside & sole-source eligible (VA Veterans First, 38 USC 8127)

Core Competencies

Data engineering. Lakehouse / warehouse architecture, pipeline orchestration (Airflow / Dagster / dbt), ETL & ELT modernization, metadata management, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
Data quality & observability. Profiling and rule frameworks (Great Expectations, dbt tests, custom Python/SQL), root-cause analysis, automated quality monitoring and dashboards.
Data governance. Data-contract enforcement, schema & lineage governance, audit-ready trails, federated data-steward operating models — governance by design.
Applied AI / MLOps. Feature pipelines, model serving, evaluation harnesses, drift detection, end-to-end lineage from data acquisition to deployment.
Cloud data platforms. AWS (S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Lake Formation), Snowflake, Databricks; SQL Server & PostgreSQL; cloud-cost attribution and workload tuning.

Differentiators

  • One accountable signature. An M.S.-in-AI principal owns the engagement end to end — the person who designs is the person who delivers. No prime/sub fog, no resource-substitution risk.
  • Governance by design. Lineage, change-management trails, and audit-ready practices are the default methodology, not retrofitted at review.
  • Continuous-learning engineering practice. Every engagement's patterns, lessons, and guardrails compound into the next instead of walking out the door with staff turnover.
  • A certified SDVOSB data/AI specialist — a scarce combination: only ~0.68% of federal AI contracts were SDVOSB set-aside in FY2024.

Past Performance

Defense Logistics Agency — purchase order SPE8ED15M1500 (citable federal past performance).
Production continual-learning platform — 1,000+ encoded engineering lessons and 400+ operating guardrails across data engineering, governance, and AI/ML operations; production-scale proof of the governance and quality discipline above.
Additional federal references available on engagement.
How to engage: SDVOSB sole-source (government-wide via SBA VetCert, FAR 19.1406 — up to $5M services; CO self-approves the justification under $900K, FAR 6.304) · SDVOSB set-aside · micro-purchase ($10K–$25K) seed task · teaming / subcontract under a prime.
NAICS: 541512 (primary — Computer Systems Design Services) · 541519 · 541715 · 518210 · 541611   |  PSC: DA01 · D307 · D399   |  Small-business size standard $34.0M (NAICS 541512)