About Gosta Bostrom

Former consulting partner and principal architect for inherited data estates.

I help data and technology leaders make modernization decisions that survive contact with old reports, unclear ownership, duplicated metrics, hidden business logic, fragile pipelines, and platform choices that were reasonable at the time.

Practitioner identity

Gosta Bostrom

I am a former consulting partner and principal architect. My work combines practical assessment, architecture, and fractional advisory support for data and platform leaders who need senior help with modernization decisions and execution.

The useful part is not making the architecture diagram cleaner. It is making the current estate explicit enough that leaders can decide what to keep, what to retire, what to rebuild, what to fund, and where hands-on delivery support is needed.

Professional background on LinkedIn Project work on GitHub

Experience

18+ years across strategy, architecture, and delivery.

Former consulting partner and principal architect.
18+ years across data and analytics, with 10+ years leading teams, architecture work, delivery programs, and client engagements.
Experience across media, telecom, financial services, retail/CPG, public sector, and regulated environments.

Inherited estates: SQL Server BI, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Oracle, and BusinessObjects.
Modern platforms: Power BI, Fabric, Azure data services, Databricks, and BigQuery.
Operating foundations: Semantic layers, governed metrics, data contracts, SLAs, incident practices, and AI-ready data foundations.

Working beliefs

The boring agreement upfront saves confusion later.

Modernization should start with a map, but it still has to become working architecture.

A useful assessment says what it knows and what it cannot know yet.

AI-ready architecture depends on data estate reality, not only model ambition.

Platform decisions improve when dependencies, ownership, and usage are visible.

A framework is useful only if people know when to adapt it.

Consulting should help leaders make decisions, not bury them in generic frameworks.

Start here

Start with the modernization problem that needs senior judgment.

A short conversation can usually tell whether the next useful step is an assessment, architecture review, fractional leadership role, or narrower advisory session.

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