Data & cloud — quoted per engagement

Data & cloud implementation — on the platforms you already pay for.

Databricks, Snowflake, Oracle, OIC and the four big clouds. We deliver bounded engagements — a lakehouse foundation, a landing zone, a FinOps baseline — with written done-criteria and runbooks your team operates.

What you get

Hands-on implementation: pipelines, landing zones, catalogs, FinOps — never a license resale

What it costs

Quoted per engagement, with written done-criteria before you commit

How long it takes

First governed datasets or a working landing zone in weeks, scoped in discovery

Who delivers

Architecture signed by an OCI Architect Professional; ~20 years of platform delivery behind it

Yerbabuena Digital delivers bounded data and cloud implementation engagements on Databricks, Snowflake, Oracle, OIC and the four big clouds: lakehouse foundations, pipelines, catalogs, landing zones, IaC and FinOps. Each engagement is quoted after discovery with written done-criteria and handed over with runbooks your team operates.

By Friday of week 1: the engagement boundary drawn on your estate, the first ingestion path mapped, and the done-criteria written for the first dataset or landing-zone engagement.

We don't sell the map. We build the road you point at.

How an engagement runs

Map

We inventory sources, platforms and the outcome you need.

Artifact: Engagement options in writing — not a framework deck.

Scope

Deliverables, calendar, done-criteria and one price for the chosen engagement.

Artifact: The quote your operators can hold us to.

Build

Pipelines, zones, catalogs and docs in your tenant, reviewed with your platform team as we go.

Artifact: Working infrastructure, in git, in your accounts.

Hand over

Runbooks, office hours, and follow-on engagements quoted separately only if you want them.

Artifact: A platform your team runs without us.

A worked example — hypothetical, so you can check our thinking

A mid-market team licenses Snowflake but every dashboard reads from ad-hoc tables nobody trusts. The engagement: medallion structure for two agreed domains, catalog entries with owners, lineage on the paths that feed the board pack, and a runbook. Done in weeks, not quarters, because the boundary was drawn before the work started. What we would not do in that engagement: migrate every legacy table, or evaluate access-control tooling — both are separate decisions, and writing them out of scope is what keeps the price honest.

Risks we name before you sign

  1. A bounded engagement doesn't fix an unbounded estate — we name what's out of scope so the price stays honest, even if it means a follow-on engagement later.
  2. Multicloud work multiplies runbooks; we document decisions instead of forcing a single-vendor story, but your team has to maintain what we leave.
  3. Open-engine paths cut cost only if your team will own them after handoff — we assess that in discovery, not after.

What you keep if we stop after week 1

If we part ways after week 1, you keep: the estate map, the engagement options in writing, and any IaC or pipeline scaffolding already in your tenant. You owe nothing further.

This is the motion our technical lead has spent the longest on: catalog and lineage work on Silicon Valley data platforms, principal-level cloud architecture across OCI, AWS, Azure and GCP, and enterprise implementation depth down to row- and column-level — two decades of it, verifiable from the certifications on About.

Yerbabuena Digital grew out of Yerbabuena Software, a University of Málaga spin-off from 2005 — a separate company, same family, same town. Our technical lead, Antonio de las Nieves Stoner, has spent about twenty years running enterprise workshops, PoCs and first deployments — including Oracle Iberia, the first sales-engineering hire at Promethium, and buyer-facing architecture at Quantexa and Waterline Data, with around seven years operating in Silicon Valley. That is career history, not a Yerbabuena Digital client list — we keep those separate on purpose.

Who is in the room

Discovery & estate mappingAntonio de las Nieves Stoner (technical lead, OCI Architect Professional)
Architecture sign-offAntonio — signs; your platform team challenges
Build reviewsAntonio with your platform engineers, in your tenant
Handoff & office hoursAntonio runs the runbook walk-through; Bárbara Trujillo owns the relationship

How this page was made: drafted by an agent from the spec, reviewed by a senior engineer, copy-edited in English, Spanish and French, and shipped through the same approval queue we sell — a person pressed send. The full wiring is in our colophon

Exit / offboarding

To end an engagement: all infrastructure, IaC, pipelines and runbooks are in your tenant and your git. Office hours run to the agreed end date. A light retainer is optional and cancellable by email any month. We don't hold your data.

First conversation — bring this

  • The platforms you already license (names, not categories).
  • The one blocked path your operators complain about.
  • The dataset or workload you'd point at first.
  • Your data-residency constraints, if any.

Common questions

Which platforms do you implement on?

Databricks, Snowflake, Oracle (including ADW and OIC), open query engines and open table formats, and the four big clouds — OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP. Multicloud is normal; we document decisions instead of forcing a vendor story.

How is an engagement priced?

Quoted after discovery: deliverables, calendar, done-criteria, one number. Follow-on engagements are quoted separately, so you can stop after any one of them with everything working.

Do you sell data-governance or access-control products?

No. We implement on the platforms you license. Where retention or record-keeping hygiene matters for GDPR, it's built into the work — as engineering, not as a product pitch.

Can data and cloud work run as one program?

Yes — that's why this is one page. Foundations first where needed (landing zone, IaC), then the data engagements land on solid ground. One discovery, one program quote if you want both.

Do you operate what you build?

You do — that's the point of the runbooks and office hours. If you want ongoing help, we scope a light retainer; we don't sell a managed platform.

Who signs the architecture?

Antonio de las Nieves Stoner, our technical lead — OCI Architect Professional and Claude Certified Architect, both verifiable on About. He joins the technical calls on Zoom; Bárbara Trujillo leads the client relationship.

We're mid-migration / mid-mess. Too early?

Mid-mess is the normal starting point. The first conversation maps what exists; the first engagement is chosen precisely because it doesn't require the mess to be solved first.

Bring us one blocked path.

The first conversation maps your estate and names the smallest engagement that unblocks it — in writing, with done-criteria and a price.