Canadian AI · Data · Privacy Engineering — Est. 2020

Enterprise AI & data infrastructure, forged for high‑stakes environments.

YagnoTech takes organizations from AI ambition to production capability — governed data platforms, privacy-first AI pipelines, and cloud infrastructure engineered for reliability, auditability, and scale.

AI Readiness Governed Platforms Privacy Engineering Cloud Modernization
Coast Capital — Financial Services ICBC — Crown Corporation of BC Beatport — Global Digital Media Dinify — Live Product 9+ Years Enterprise Data 4 IEEE Publications Azure · AWS · GCP AWS & Microsoft Certified PIPEDA · GDPR · HIPAA Aligned Privacy by Design
00Origin — the meaning behind the nameYajña · the sacred fire

Named for the discipline of the sacred fire.

“Build the right thing. Build it well. Deliver without drama.

Yagno draws from Yajña — the ancient practice of a deliberate, exacting offering made with full attention and integrity. It is the spirit we bring to every system we build: precise, accountable, and made to last. We don't chase hype cycles. We engineer infrastructure that organizations can stake reputations, regulators, and millions of users on.

Precision Integrity Accountability Built to last
01Capabilities/what-we-do

Enterprise AI & data capability, end to end.

From strategy and governance to production delivery — we modernize critical data systems with senior technical execution, not slideware.

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Enterprise AI Readiness

Assess data maturity, identify high-value AI use cases, and define practical roadmaps for LLM, analytics, and automation initiatives that survive real enterprise constraints.

Use-case mapping · Roadmaps · Data maturity
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Governed AI Platforms

Design AI and data platforms with access control, lineage, auditability, and privacy safeguards — operating patterns that make advanced analytics trustworthy at scale.

Lineage · Access control · Auditability
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Cloud Data Platform Build

Architect lakehouse, warehouse, and analytics platforms on Azure, AWS, and GCP using modern patterns across Databricks, Synapse, Fabric, Redshift, Glue, Athena, and BigQuery.

Databricks · Fabric · Redshift · BigQuery
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Cloud Modernization

Move legacy warehouses, Hadoop estates, and on-prem pipelines into resilient cloud architectures with disciplined migration planning and continuity controls.

Hadoop → Cloud · Migration · Continuity
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Production Data Engineering

Build observable ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Apache Spark, Airflow, AWS Glue, Talend, and Informatica — reliability and governance designed in from day one.

Spark · ADF · Airflow · Streaming
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Architecture & Executive Advisory

Senior architecture reviews, stack selection, and delivery planning — with cross-functional alignment between engineering, analytics, legal, compliance, and leadership.

Reviews · Stack selection · Delivery planning
02Sector coverage/where-we-operate
A

Financial Services

Coast Capital Savings

Cloud migration, PII governance, and PIPEDA-aligned warehousing for a regulated Canadian credit union.

B

Public Sector & Crown

ICBC — Province of BC

Province-scale licensing data, privacy masking, and road-safety analytics for a Crown corporation.

C

Digital Media

Beatport — USA

Global music data infrastructure, rights compliance, and CI/CD automation for a US-listed platform.

D

Hospitality Technology

Dinify — Own product

A privacy-by-design digital dining platform, built and operated by YagnoTech, live in market.

03Selected work/evidence

Delivery in regulated, high-scale environments.

Evidence of execution across regulated, high-scale, and operationally sensitive systems — not sandbox experience.

Coast Capital
Finance
AWS Data Platform Modernization
ChallengeModernize legacy on-prem data flows for a regulated Canadian financial institution.
DeliveredGoverned AWS warehouse build — PII anonymization, SCD-1/SCD-2 modelling on Redshift, Glue & Step Functions orchestration, executive Tableau reporting.
ImpactA trusted, PIPEDA-aligned foundation for cloud-scale analytics and regulatory reporting.
AWS GlueRedshiftStep FunctionsLambdaInformaticaTableau
ICBC — DLNP
Public Sector
Driver Licensing Data Warehouse Redesign
ChallengeRedesign the enterprise warehouse behind BC's transition to 8-digit driver's licence numbers.
DeliveredHigh-performance ETL pipelines on the Hadoop enterprise data warehouse, plus hybrid on-prem-to-cloud migration planning and regulatory alignment.
ImpactCritical licensing data infrastructure serving millions of British Columbians.
HadoopApache SparkTalendOracleDB2
Beatport
Media · Global
Data Infrastructure & Compliance Platform
ChallengeRaise reliability, compliance reporting, and delivery speed for a global music data platform.
Delivered10+ zero-downtime database migrations, Terraform-automated deployment pipelines, and 100+ DSRF-format royalty-compliance reports.
Impact40% less system downtime · 30% faster data delivery · lower operational risk.
BigQueryLookerPentahoPythonSparkTerraform
ICBC — Licensing
Public Sector
Enterprise Data Warehouse & Road-Safety Analytics
ChallengeSustain enterprise analytics, privacy, and transformation across driver-licensing and road-safety programs.
DeliveredContravention analytics pipelines, data masking and lineage programs at enterprise scale, and support for the RAAP driver-based insurance transformation.
ImpactMulti-year governed analytics for sensitive, public-facing provincial systems.
HadoopSpark / ScalaMapR DBTalendTableauOracle
04Why YagnoTech/the-difference

Boutique focus. Enterprise rigor.

The senior expertise of a top consultancy, without the overhead, hand-offs, or drama.

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Privacy-First by Design

Founded on the academic principle that privacy must be designed in, not bolted on — built for PIPEDA, GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and HIPAA-aligned engagements.

02

Research-Backed Practice

Four IEEE publications and a graduate thesis in data-privacy systems. Evidence-based architecture decisions, not vendor marketing.

03

Full-Stack Data Capability

Ingestion → streaming → transformation → warehousing → ML → reporting → governance. We deliver the whole pipeline, not one layer.

04

Multi-Cloud Fluency

Certified and actively deployed on Azure, AWS, and GCP — so we architect for your environment rather than a vendor preference.

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A Real Product in Market

Dinify is live and deployed, built to the same standards we apply to clients. We own delivery end-to-end — not just advice.

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Proven in Regulated Contexts

Crown corporations, Canadian financial institutions, and a US-listed media company with international compliance obligations.

05Research & innovation/peer-reviewed

Consulting grounded in published research.

Our methods trace back to peer-reviewed work in AI, data privacy, and systems design — a foundation most boutique firms can't claim.

IEEE Publications
2020
Cross-Dataset Design Discussion MiningIEEE SANER — Int'l Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering
2019
AI Chatbots: Transforming User ExperienceIEEE I2CT — 5th Int'l Conference for Convergence in Technology
2017
IOTA: Intelligent Filtering & Segmentation of Unstructured DatasetsIEEE I2CT — 2nd Int'l Conference for Convergence in Technology
2016
Sensor Data Computing as a Service in Internet of ThingsIEEE CDAN — Symposium on Colossal Data Analysis and Networking
Active Research Areas
  • Privacy-enhancing technologies — differential privacy, tokenization, secure multi-party computation
  • AI-governed data systems — compliance and auditability embedded in ML pipelines
  • Blockchain-based data licensing — smart contracts on Hyperledger Fabric
  • Real-time privacy monitoring for active data-sharing agreements
  • Health-data anonymization and HIPAA-centric pipeline design
Graduate research: MSc in Computer Science with a specialization in Data Privacy, University of Victoria — supervised research in privacy-preserving health-data architectures.
06Our products/in-market

Product thinking. Delivery discipline.

We bring the mindset of builders to every engagement — including our own live product.

Live Product

Dinify

A modern digital dining platform connecting restaurants with customers — streamlining menus, ordering, operations, and customer insight through practical, data-driven technology.

25%Lift in targeted-marketing effectiveness
98%Data-privacy compliance rate
20%Faster delivery via reusable infrastructure
  • Digital menus & QR ordering
  • Real-time order management
  • Customer analytics & segmentation
  • Privacy-by-design data infrastructure
Visit Dinify.ca
07How we work/method

Structured, accountable delivery.

Clear governance, practical milestones, and senior execution from discovery through production handover.

01

Discovery & Alignment

Clarify goals, data landscape, compliance constraints, stakeholders, and risks before recommending a path.

02

Architecture & Roadmap

Define target architecture, delivery phases, governance model, and commercial structure for confident decisions.

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Build & Operationalize

Deliver in focused cycles with demos, documentation, observability, and risk management built in.

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Launch & Handover

Production readiness, knowledge transfer, and post-launch support so your team operates with confidence.

08The firm49.2827° N · 123.1207° W

Built for trust, scale, and technical depth.

YagnoTech Inc. is a Canadian technology firm focused on enterprise AI engineering, governed data platforms, cloud modernization, and privacy-first architecture. Our work sits where technical execution, compliance, and business-critical delivery meet.

The firm is led by Karan Tongay, who holds an MSc in Computer Science focused on data privacy from the University of Victoria, is a published IEEE researcher, and carries AWS and Microsoft certifications. His work spans differential privacy, LLM integration, cloud migrations, and large-scale ETL across Azure, AWS, and GCP.

We engage as senior technical partners for organizations that need more than implementation support: clear architecture, accountable delivery, executive-ready communication, and systems that can be operated long after launch.

Credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Technology Associate MSc Computer Science — Data Privacy
9+
Years in enterprise data
5+
Enterprise clients
3
Cloud platforms
4
IEEE publications
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Plan your next AI & data initiative.

If your organization is modernizing data infrastructure, evaluating enterprise AI, or building privacy-first analytics capabilities, YagnoTech can shape the architecture and deliver the work.

PrincipalKaran Tongay
BaseVancouver · British Columbia · Canada
EngagementsAdvisory · Delivery · Embedded leadership