Data · Systems · AI · Infrastructure

We build the systems
your business runs on.

ThamaTek designs and engineers production data platforms, backend services, and cloud infrastructure — lakehouses, streaming pipelines, distributed systems, embedded AI assistants, and Infrastructure as Code that hold up under real load.

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Longest partnership
7 years
Based in
Ottawa, Canada
Disciplines
Data · Systems · AI · Cloud

Trusted to run production systems for

  • Venable Instruments Venable Instruments
  • Alberaa Freight Forwarding Alberaa Freight Forwarding

What we do

Six disciplines, one engineering team

We take work from architecture through to the thing running in production — and we stay responsible for it afterwards.

Selected work

What long-term partnership looks like

Two clients, both ongoing. Here is the actual scope of what we built and still run.

  • Software development — Python desktop applications that drive frequency response analyzers and multi-battery test systems over USB and Ethernet, from instrument communication up through the interactive user interface.
  • Data analysis — measurement acquisition, interactive visualization, and mathematical modelling tools that estimate transfer functions of test circuits using NumPy and SciPy.
  • AI assistant — integrated an AI chat assistant into the instrument software, so customers can ask for measurement reports in plain language, get step-by-step help configuring the analyzer, and receive AI-generated analysis and recommendations drawn directly from live instrument data.
  • Containerization — migrated licensing services off shared hosting onto Docker containers on an on-premise virtual machine, improving performance, reliability, and scalability.
  • Secure infrastructure — moved SVN repositories from a legacy Ubuntu server into a Dockerized, SSH-secured environment with clearer access control.
  • Web development — designed and built alberaa.com from the ground up: a fast, mobile-first site with a clear quote-request flow.
  • Managed hosting — the site runs on ThamaTek-managed infrastructure with TLS encryption, automated backups, and uptime monitoring.
  • Business email — branded @alberaa.com mailboxes configured and administered end to end, with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records for reliable inbox delivery plus spam and phishing filtering.

How we work

Discover → Design → Build → Operate → Optimize

The same five stages on every engagement. You always know which one we are in and what comes out of it.

  1. 01

    Discover

    We map what exists — systems, data, constraints, and the business outcome you actually need. No assumptions carried forward.

  2. 02

    Design

    Architecture, data contracts, and a delivery plan you can review before a line of code is written. Trade-offs made explicit.

  3. 03

    Build

    Incremental delivery with automated testing, CI/CD, and observability wired in from the first commit rather than bolted on later.

  4. 04

    Operate

    We run what we build — monitoring, alerting, backups, and incident response — until your team is ready to take the handover.

  5. 05

    Optimize

    Performance tuning, cost reduction, and hardening, driven by what the production telemetry actually shows.

Technology we work with

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Databricks
  • Snowflake
  • Terraform
  • Kafka
  • Spark
  • Docker
  • Delta Lake
  • Iceberg
  • Flink
  • Pulumi
  • Kubernetes
  • PostgreSQL
  • GitHub Actions
  • Airflow
  • dbt
  • Prometheus

Who we are

A small team that ships production systems

ThamaTek Inc. is an engineering consultancy in Ottawa, Ontario. We work with a small number of clients at a time, and we stay with them.

What we're here to do

Most organizations do not need more dashboards or another proof of concept. They need the unglamorous layer underneath to actually work: pipelines that land data on time, services that stay up, infrastructure that can be rebuilt from source.

That layer is what we build. We aim to be the team you keep calling — not the one that delivers a slide deck and disappears.

How we operate

  • Engineering rigour — tested, observable, and maintainable, or it isn't finished.
  • Ownership — we run what we build and answer for it in production.
  • Plain language — honest estimates, visible trade-offs, no surprises on the invoice.
  • Long horizons — we optimize for the system still being good in three years.

Why teams choose ThamaTek

01

We engineer, we don't just advise

Our work product is running software and live infrastructure, not a recommendations document. The people who design it are the people who build it.

02

Breadth across the whole stack

Instrument control software, through embedded AI assistants, to cloud data platforms. When the problem crosses a boundary — app to model to database to network — it stays with one team.

03

Everything as code

Environments are captured in Terraform and containers, so they are reproducible, reviewable, and recoverable. Nothing important lives only on someone's laptop.

04

Partnerships, measured in years

Our longest client relationship is seven years and still running. For another, we operate their entire public web presence. Clients stay because the systems keep working.

Insights

Notes from the engineering team

Practical write-ups on the problems we keep running into — architecture, migration, governance, and cost.

Have a system that needs to hold up?

Tell us what you're building or what's breaking. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team for it.

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Get in touch

Let's talk about the work

Send a note and we'll reply within one business day.

Emailinfo@thamatek.com Phone+1 (647) 684-5862
LocationOttawa, Ontario, Canada

Prefer to poke at something first? Our AI assistant is a live demo of the kind of thing we build.