Axon Active builds production-grade data platforms on AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery — data engineering services and data analytics solutions delivered as one continuous capability, by the engineering organization that has shipped software for 40+ companies worldwide since 2009. Reliable pipelines, cloud warehouses, and governed analytics your finance, risk, and operations leaders can defend in an audit.
Seven capability areas across the modern data stack — from pipeline engineering and cloud warehouses to analytics, governance, and modernization. Our data engineering services are delivered by a permanent team, so the engineers who build your platform are the ones who keep it running.
Build scalable batch and real-time pipelines connecting CRMs, ERPs, databases, APIs, and third-party platforms to cloud warehouses. Our data integration services unify fragmented sources; ETL development services handle extraction, transformation, and loading at production scale; and data pipeline development covers CDC, streaming, orchestration, and monitoring.
Design and operate cloud data warehouses and lakehouse architectures that scale with data volume and concurrency. Production patterns include medallion lakehouse on Databricks + Delta Lake, Snowflake warehouse sizing for cost/performance, BigQuery slot reservations and materialized views, schema design for multi-tenancy, data residency, and regulated workloads — governed via Unity Catalog or equivalent.
Python, SQL, PySpark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, SQLMesh, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS, Azure, Docker, Terraform, Git, CI/CD.
Design and operate cloud warehouses and lakehouses that scale with data volume and concurrency. Our data warehouse development services cover medallion lakehouse on Databricks and Delta Lake, Snowflake sizing for cost and performance, BigQuery slot reservations, and schema design for multi-tenant, regulated workloads — governed via Unity Catalog or equivalent.
Databricks, Delta Lake, Snowflake, BigQuery, Synapse Analytics, ADLS, S3, Iceberg, Unity Catalog, PySpark, Spark SQL.
Reliable, scalable data workflows across AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery — orchestration, transformation pipelines, scheduling, CI/CD, monitoring, and lineage tracking for production data environments.
Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, dbt, SQLMesh.
Modern data analytics solutions: semantic layer design, KPI dashboard development, and self-service analytics that enable faster, more reliable business decision-making.
Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Metabase, Cube, LookML, dbt Metrics.
Trusted, reliable data through modern governance, testing, and monitoring. Our data management services include data quality validation, lineage tracking, observability, audit trails, and compliant data handling for enterprise and regulated environments.
Great Expectations, dbt tests, OpenLineage, Marquez, Monte Carlo, Datadog.
Our data migration services move on-prem warehouses to cloud lakehouses, refactor brittle ETL, and consolidate fragmented platforms with minimal disruption — with parallel-run validation, so cutover doesn’t break reporting. From SAP or Oracle to Snowflake or Databricks, migrations are scoped around your audit calendar, not ours.
AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, dbt, Airflow.
Two complementary disciplines that turn raw data into business advantage: engineering builds the trusted pipelines underneath; analytics turns the data on top into clear decisions. Together they run as end-to-end data management services — one team owning the path from source system to boardroom dashboard.
Building and running the infrastructure behind reliable business data.
Turning trusted data into business insight
Engineering is only half the story. Our data analytics solutions sit on top of governed pipelines, so finance, marketing, risk, and operations all read from the same numbers. And because the analytics layer is wired to lineage-tracked sources, every figure traces back to its origin — for buyers comparing vendors, that auditable link from dashboard to source system is the real differentiator.
Three standards that make data useful for the business — trusted enough to decide on, traceable to its source system, consistent across teams, fresh enough to act on.
Schema contracts enforced at source → staging → marts; Great Expectations and dbt tests on every run; freshness, volume, and distribution monitored continuously with Monte Carlo or equivalent. When quality breaks, downstream consumers are blocked before bad numbers reach a dashboard.
OpenLineage and dbt docs capture every transformation — no orphan SQL, no shadow pipelines — so auditors answer “where does this number come from?” in minutes, not weeks. PII tagged at ingestion, GDPR deletion workflows built in, audit logging on every read and write of regulated data: compliance is a property of the pipeline, not a separate audit step.
Metrics live in a governed semantic layer (dbt metrics, Cube, LookML) — finance, marketing, and ops all pull from the same definition, ending “which number is right?” disputes. Dashboards run with freshness SLAs and performance budgets, monitored like production services — no one acts on silently-stale numbers.
Pipelines that survive audits don’t write themselves. The Axon AI Operating Model extends data engineers with AI-assisted SQL review, schema validation, and anomaly detection — every transformation traceable, every metric defended, under it, with per-task autonomy levels (L1 Assistant – L4 Autonomous). And the bridge runs both directions: we build the clean, versioned, governed data that AI products depend on, and we use AI to make our own pipelines safer. For teams building AI features, our data engineering for AI work feeds model training, feature stores, and RAG.
Build AI on this data foundation — AI Product Development
AI helps draft metric definitions, identify duplicate KPIs, and propose semantic layer (dbt metrics, Cube, LookML) structures.
Analytics lead + business owner confirm metric semantics before semantic-layer merge
Great Expectations and dbt test cases generated from data contracts; engineer reviews coverage against critical paths.
Data engineer validates coverage; SLA owner signs off before release.
AI reviews SQL transformations for performance, correctness, and style before merge. Common antipatterns flagged.
Senior engineer + dbt CODEOWNER approve before merge — AI flags don’t auto-merge.
AI watches source schemas for breaking changes; engineers are notified before downstream pipelines break.
Engineer triages drift; downstream consumers notified and sign off on the remediation plan.
AI monitors freshness, row counts, and distribution shifts beyond threshold alerts. Patterns that precede data quality incidents surface early.
On-call engineer triages anomaly alerts; thresholds tuned monthly with the analytics lead.
Dashboard freshness SLAs monitored; AI alerts on stale or broken visualizations before they reach a review meeting.
Analytics owner confirms severity before stakeholder escalation; broken visualizations reopened as tickets.
Most data work falls into a handful of recurring patterns. These are the ones where our pipelines, warehouses, and orchestration stacks pay back fastest.
Clean, versioned, reproducible features for ML and LLM workloads. Removes the “data scientists spend 80% of time on data prep” bottleneck.
Feast / Tecton + Snowflake + dbt + vector DB (Pinecone, pgvector).
Unify customer events across CRM, product, billing, support into a single source of truth. Powers segmentation, churn modeling, lifetime value, attribution.
Snowflake / BigQuery + dbt + Fivetran / Airbyte + Segment.
Automate quarterly and ad-hoc reporting for Basel III, IFRS 9/17, Solvency II, GDPR data subject requests. Audit trails, lineage, reproducibility built in.
dbt + Great Expectations + Airflow + Snowflake / Databricks.
Streaming pipelines that score transactions or behavior in seconds, not overnight batches. Feature engineering, model serving, alert routing.
Kafka + Flink / Spark Streaming + feature store + ML model API.
Ingest sensor, device, or product telemetry at scale. Time-series storage, anomaly detection, dashboards for ops teams.
Kafka + TimescaleDB / InfluxDB + Spark + Grafana.
At enterprise scale, volume and concurrency change the architecture: high-throughput streaming, petabyte-scale warehouses, multi-region governance. This is also where enterprise data engineering consulting matters most — sequencing a platform rebuild without freezing the business.
Behind every pipeline is a team that knows your data — and we know our team. Data engineers and analysts work side by side in our four Vietnam offices, on production data platforms for clients worldwide.
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Two halves of the same capability — engineering builds and operates the pipelines, warehouses, and governance underneath; analytics answers the business questions on top. We deliver both with one team, so the numbers you act on are always traceable to governed data.
Every migration runs parallel-run validation: the new platform produces the same numbers as the old one, side by side, before anyone switches. Cutover is sequenced around your reporting and audit calendar, with rollback ready — so finance closes its books on schedule, whether the migration finishes early or late.
Data residency is often the binding constraint, not just compliance paperwork. For EU clients, data stays in EU regions (typically AWS Frankfurt, Azure West Europe, GCP Belgium) with EU-only processing. For Swiss clients with FADP requirements, we support Swiss cloud regions or on-premise deployment depending on data classification. Cross-border transfers — when needed for our Vietnam delivery teams — go through pseudonymized or anonymized test data only; production data never leaves your region. We map data flows during discovery, classify each dataset (public, internal, confidential, restricted), and design pipelines accordingly. The auditable trail matters as much as the technical setup — your compliance team should be able to show inspectors exactly what data moved where.
The default in data tooling is over-buy: vendors price aggressively, and stacking 6–8 SaaS tools is easy. Our default advice is the opposite — buy where the market is mature and standardized, build where your business logic lives. For warehousing, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks usually win against self-hosting unless data sovereignty forces on-prem. For orchestration, Airflow, dbt, or Prefect are mature enough — don’t build a custom DAG runner. For BI, Looker, Metabase, or Power BI handle 90% of needs. The decision matters most for data transformation logic and reverse-ETL patterns — those embed competitive advantage and shouldn’t be vendor-dependent. We help you map the boundary, not push a vendor.
Most teams over-engineer for real-time. Batch is cheaper, easier to debug, and sufficient for ~80% of business cases — daily or hourly refresh handles most reporting, ML training, and operational dashboards. Real-time streaming pays off in specific scenarios: fraud detection (sub-second response), operational alerting (minutes matter), user-facing personalization (recommendations updated mid-session), and event-driven business logic (inventory, pricing, notifications). The cost is real — streaming infrastructure like Kafka, Flink, or Kinesis costs more to run, more to staff, and more to debug than batch pipelines. Our default question to clients: what’s the business cost of data being 1 hour old? If the answer is “nothing material,” batch wins.
Most data analytics consulting firms advise but don’t build — and when a data engineering consulting company subcontracts delivery, accountability changes hands mid-engagement. We do both in-house: the consultants who recommend the architecture are the engineers who build and operate it.
Both. We offer data engineering as a service — a retained team that operates your platform month over month — plus fixed-scope builds and data engineering & analytics consulting for one-off architecture decisions.
Our delivery teams are in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City, Thu Duc, Da Nang, Can Tho), with onsite specialists embedded at client sites. For EU clients, there’s a 4-hour daily overlap between Swiss afternoon and Vietnamese morning-to-midday — that’s when standups, planning, and live discussions happen. For clients in other regions (US, APAC, Middle East), we adjust the team’s working hours to maintain at least 2–3 hours of live overlap with your business day. Outside the overlap window, work is async. Working language is English. We use your tools — Jira, Confluence, Slack, GitHub or GitLab — not ours.
It starts with an initial call. We listen to what you’re building, your needs, and your expectations. We walk you through what we offer and propose a team shape, timeline, and pricing model. No deck, no sales script. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you. If we are, we move to contract discussion and kick off hiring and onboarding.
