
About Lakevector
Control your data spend before it controls you.
Our Team
Michael Hughes
Principal and Co-Founder
20 years of experience in data management, cloud computing products and services, and operations management.
Zach Fierstadt
Strategic Advisor
25 years in data engineering, cloud infrastructure buildouts, network engineering, and software development.
Dedicated to your success
We're operators, not observers. Our engineers have spent their careers running data platforms in production, the kind that carry real traffic and real bills, so we know where the waste hides because we've had to answer for it ourselves. We've built and managed cloud infrastructure at scale, run data lakes through the difficult realities of growth, right-sized compute that was quietly burning money, and led migrations without incurring costly downtime.
How we work
Ship Continuously
Small, frequent releases over big-bang launches. Iterate continuously, refine from each cycle.
Build Foundations
Get the fundamentals right and everything on top gets easier.
Open By Default
Open source, open standards, no lock-in. Enjoy the flexibility to build on your terms.
Lake-Native Agent Architecture
Designed for machines first. If an agent can use it, a human can too.

