James Winegar

Founder

James Winegar

Founder & Enterprise Architect

James is the original founder of CorrDyn, where he focuses on building secure, stable, and manageable infrastructure for clients with high ROI driven by automation. He has worked in technology for over a decade across education, research, legal, healthcare, finance, entertainment, banking, logistics, and consumer packaged goods. James also teaches Machine Learning at Scale and Machine Learning Operations at UC Berkeley and was technical editor for two books on Machine Learning with Python.

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Areas of expertise

Client work

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Embedded Analytics Modernization for a Payroll SaaS Platform

CorrDyn built an embedded analytics PoC for a payroll platform, achieving sub-second latency and 6-minute data freshness at 75% lower cost.

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Government Reporting Overhaul for a Home Care Platform

CorrDyn stabilized 100 mission-critical CMS reports for a home care company ahead of a hard February deadline, then transitioned to ongoing data team support.

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ML Customer Segmentation for an Automotive Dealer Group

CorrDyn built an ML clustering pipeline on Databricks with LLM-powered profiling to segment customers across vehicle brands for a dealer group.

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Embedded Analytics for a Healthcare Data Platform

CorrDyn built HIPAA-compliant embedded dashboards for a healthcare data company, going from assessment to production in a 45-day proof of concept.

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Data Pipeline and BI for an Investment Networking Platform

CorrDyn built reverse ETL pipelines and a Looker BI platform for an alternative investment networking company, unifying CRM, financial, and application data.

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Secure Data Pipeline for a Global Research Organization

CorrDyn built encrypted data extraction from five survey platforms into MotherDuck with PII separation for a research nonprofit.

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Podcast episodes with James

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Jamil Bou Khair & Brian Manifold — Supply Chain Risk Became Everyone's Problem
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 20

Supply Chain Risk Became Everyone's Problem

with Jamil Bou Khair & Brian Manifold, Firezone

34:25
Ross Katz & James Winegar — What MCP Means for Enterprise Data Strategy
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 19

What MCP Means for Enterprise Data Strategy

with Ross Katz & James Winegar

54:34
Ross Katz & James Winegar — 8 Ways to Survive the SaaSpocalypse
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 16

8 Ways to Survive the SaaSpocalypse

with Ross Katz & James Winegar

27:45
Ross Katz & James Winegar — IBM Buys Confluent: What It Means for the Data Stack
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 14

IBM Buys Confluent: What It Means for the Data Stack

with Ross Katz & James Winegar

32:15
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 13

Enhancing Developer Efficiency with SQLMesh

with Toby Mao, Tobiko Data

38:28
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 12

People as Problem and Solution in Data Leadership

with Nicole Radziwill, Team-X AI

39:04
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 11

DuckDB: A Game Changer in Data Analytics

with Alex Monahan, MotherDuck

39:40
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 10

From Pipelines to People: Building Data Teams

with Lindsay Murphy, Hiive

40:31
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 9

Gen AI in Incident Response with StratusGrid

with Matt Barlow, StratusGrid

24:40
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 8

Efficient Data Streaming with Estuary

with David Yaffe, Estuary

32:03
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 7

Ethical Data Practices with Kevin Hartman — Part 2

with Kevin Hartman, Databricks

29:23
Eventual ConsistencyEp. 6

Ethical Data Practices with Kevin Hartman — Part 1

with Kevin Hartman, Databricks

27:59

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