Gautham B
Forward-Deployed Engineer, Data Engineering practice.
Gautham ships production data platforms for Mactores customers. Five years in complex data engineering, with a working depth on Apache Iceberg that shows up in the scalability of the foundations he builds. On engagement, he takes the discovery Mactores produces and turns it into the schema, partition, and lineage decisions the customer’s operations team runs on after cutover. His engagements close on customer-signed acceptance — the delivery commitment every Mactores FDE ships against.
Writing
What he's been writing.
Ontology in AI: What Context Ontology Is and Why It Matters
Databricks Ontology vs Palantir, Fabric IQ & AWS Context
RAG vs Fine-Tuning for Enterprise LLMs: Which to Choose?
When Is Agentic RAG Worth the Cost in Production?
Enterprise AI Agents: What It Takes to Reach Production
Forward-Deployed Engineer: What They Do and When to Hire
Enterprise AI Strategy: The Three-Pillar Framework