Data and AI,
shipped cleanly.
I'm Anthony Loya. Senior Consultant at Slalom. I help crypto-native teams and Fortune 500 enterprises build data platforms, analytics, and AI systems that actually get used.
Kansas City Metro · Remote-friendly
What I work on.
Data architecture, analytics, and AI engineering across the modern cloud stack.
AWS
Data platforms on S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Lambda, Bedrock, and AgentCore for production agent runtimes. IAM and networking done right from day one.
Snowflake
Warehouse design, RBAC, cost optimization, native apps, and the Snowflake SDK. Comfortable with async and native auth flows.
Sigma Computing
End-to-end analytics builds: workbooks, templates, embedded analytics, and modeled datasets that scale across teams.
Tableau & Power BI
Executive dashboards, semantic models, and governed self-service. Tuned for answers, not vanity charts.
MCP & AI agents
Model Context Protocol servers, tool-calling agents, and LLM workflows wired into real data, not toy demos.
Modern data stack
dbt, Airflow, Fivetran, and warehouse-native pipelines. Opinions on when each earns its keep.
Python & SQL
Production pipelines, APIs, and data tooling. Comfortable reaching for async SDKs and typed contracts.
Human-centered design
MS in Data Science & Analytics with an emphasis in human-centered science design. Analytics and data science are only useful if someone can act on them.
Clients I've partnered with.
A mix of crypto-native protocols and Fortune 500 enterprises. Slalom engagements anonymized to respect client references.
Cryptex Finance
Data strategy and analytics for a DeFi protocol building crypto volatility and index products.
Layer3
Analytics and reporting for on-chain quest and reputation infrastructure.
OurNetwork
Data research and dashboards surfacing protocol-level metrics across crypto ecosystems.
Notional Finance
Analytics support for a fixed-rate DeFi lending protocol, including on-chain data modeling.
Archia
Data consulting on the Archia platform, including Snowflake connectivity patterns and SDK-first integrations.
Covalent
Independent security research on Covalent's Increment analytics platform. Responsibly disclosed a vulnerability and was awarded a bug bounty by the team.
Global pharmaceutical
Data & AI engineering for a top-ten pharma. Architecture, delivery, and analytics enablement.
Fortune 500 insurance broker
Data architecture and reporting modernization across brokerage operations.
Chemicals & petrochemicals
Cloud data platform work for a global Koch Industries subsidiary.
National pharmacy retailer
Data engineering and analytics enablement for enterprise reporting.
Global footwear & apparel
Data platform and analytics modernization for a consumer brand.
Leave management SaaS
Data & analytics consulting for a B2B leave-management platform.
Three phases. No theatrics.
Discover
Sit with the data, the stakeholders, and the existing stack. Map what works, what doesn't, and what's actually worth building.
Design
Propose an architecture that fits the team, not the trend deck. Trade-offs explicit, costs honest, scope cut to what moves the needle.
Deliver
Ship it incrementally with instrumentation from day one. Hand off with documentation that survives the engagement.
Background.
Ten years in data across banking, consumer credit, crypto research, and enterprise consulting. Based in Kansas City, building things that outlive the engagement.
Emphasis on the intersection of data, interface, and the human decision-making on the other end of the dashboard.
Leading data architecture and engineering engagements for Fortune 500 enterprises across pharma, insurance, chemicals, retail pharmacy, consumer brands, and B2B SaaS.
Advising crypto-native teams on data strategy, analytics, and on-chain metrics. Clients include Cryptex, Layer3, OurNetwork, Notional Finance, and Archia.
Fraud reporting and analytics for a regional bank. Built the reporting layer that oncall and investigations teams relied on daily.
First data hire at Blockworks Research. Established the analytics foundation for a crypto research publication.
Risk analytics across consumer and commercial banking products.
Product analytics for card and buy-now-pay-later products during early-stage US expansion.
Reporting and analytics for Cerner Technology Services' international data center operations.
Let's talk.
Advisory, short engagements, and longer partnerships. Best route is email.