About DataKitchen

A small senior team. A platform built for pharma. A decade of commercial launches behind us.

DataKitchen has been engineering reliable, analyst-ready commercial pharma data since the Celgene days. The team is bootstrapped, fully remote, and unusually opinionated about how data engineering should work for a pharma analytics organization.

At a glance

The shape of the practice.

Founded: 2013, Cambridge, MA. Bootstrapped, fully remote.
Practice focus: Tech-enabled commercial pharma data engineering — analyst-ready data, automated quality, transparent operation.
Customer outcomes: $100B in acquisition value across Karuna (Cobenfy), Celgene (Otezla/Revlimid), and Acceleron.
How we deliver: A small senior team backed by DataKitchen's own DataOps software — orchestration, AI-assisted test generation, and full observability.

What we believe

Four convictions that shape the work.

Stay in our lane.

We make data easy and trusted. That's it. Analytics, dashboards, business decisions — those are your team's job, and they should stay that way.

No black boxes.

Every line of code, every test, every schema, every dashboard configuration lives in your cloud and your repositories. When your IT team is ready to take over, the handoff is a normal day.

Specialized beats generalist.

Generic IT outsourcing is wrong-shaped for commercial pharma data. Our engineers know NPP, payer claims, specialty pharmacy, syndicated data, and Veeva on day one.

Speed comes from automation, not heroics.

Our DataOps platform generates and runs the tests, orchestrates the deployments, and catches errors before they reach your analysts. Small senior team, large output.

Leadership

The people you'll meet.

Same founders, same engineering bar since 2013. When you book an intro call, you talk to one of the four people below — not an account executive.

Chris Bergh

CEO & Head Chef

The "Head Chef." Co-founder and CEO. Leads the DataOps movement; co-authored the DataOps Cookbook and the DataOps Manifesto. Background: MIT Lincoln Lab, NASA Ames.

Gil Benghiat

Co-Founder & VP of Products & Implementation

Co-founder and VP of Products & Implementation. 35+ years in software engineering, including AT&T Bell Labs and Sybase. Owns the commercial-pharma practice and stays close to every active engagement.

Eric Estabrooks

Co-Founder & VP of Services

Co-founder and VP of Services. 25+ years leading data services and software teams. The senior engineer behind most of our pharma launches; the person you're likely to meet on a Tuesday status call.

Chip Bloche

Director of Data Engineering and Quality Solutions

VP of Data Engineering. Principal architect of TestGen (our open-source data quality testing tool). 30+ years on OLTP, warehousing, and analyst-ready data design — the engineering bar across every pharma platform we ship.

Ready to see what a rented commercial pharma data team looks like in practice?

Half an hour with the team. Bring your stack, your launch window, and your hardest analytics question. We'll do the rest.

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