Battle Tested on the Bleeding Edge

Apex is a Big Data Engineering consultancy based out of Carmel, IN. We are a team of seasoned engineering professionals with our feet planted firmly on the ground. We start with what we know works and go from there. Don't get us wrong, our heads are in the clouds too, but we don't skip any steps in getting there. We've made the hard trek up the mountain, so you don't have to.

Apex is inspired by the spirit of rock climbers from Royal Robbins to Lynn Hill, to Tommy Caldwell. The best climbers are tenacious and intense yet cool as a cucumber, and have the uncanny ability to read a route and see exactly how it should be climbed before they even touch the wall. Our decades of experience have allowed us to develop those same skills in the data space and we are eager to show you the joy of good data engineering.

Read more about our vision here: The Apex Vision

Our Team

Kyle Prifogle

Kyle Prifogle

Founder - Principal Architect

With over a decade of experience building big data systems, Kyle is part mathematician, part engineer and part dev-ops architect. Working for companies around the world from Tokyo, to London and for cutting edge silicon valley startups, Kyle transforms companies using solid engineering practices based on open source software principles. He specializes in Databricks and Apache Spark, lambda architectures, and data governance and materialization as it pertains to data science enablement.

Nathan Feuerstine

Nathan Feuerstine

Principal Architect

Nathan is a 20+ year data professional with most of his career in professional consulting roles as a software architect. Helping companies learn and leverage the benefiets of cloud based architecture, Nathan has served clients that have included large and small organizations in Insurance, BioTech, Health Care, Federal Government, Marketing Tech, Education and Manufacturing. Nathan specializes in Apache Hadoop and Cloudera implementations as well as the Azure stack.

Andrew Poland

Andrew Poland

Principal Devops Engineer

Andrew is a devops architect and jedi master. With deep knowledge and Kubernetes and related cloud native technologies he accelerates companies infrastructure efforts and brings sanity to the dev-ops process. No one quite knows what he's up to except that when he gets his hands on things everything just "starts working". Andrew organizes and runs DevOps days Indy, and is an AWS and Triplebyte certified architect and all around cool guy. His pastimes center mostly around "cat gifs" and related activities.