Alex Borsuk
Owner and founder. Leads architecture reviews and assessments, and stays on every engagement through delivery — which is the part most firms hand off.
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A small team,
on purpose.
Quasar IT Services is a senior-only engineering team for data engineering, machine learning and AI agents. We build the platform, get models into production, and put agents on top of data people actually trust. We stay small because that is what lets us keep the promise.
Why “Quasar”
A quasar is what happens when accumulated mass finally gets organized.
Matter spirals into a supermassive black hole, and the disk around it becomes the brightest thing in the observable universe — brighter than the entire galaxy it sits in. It is not new material. It is material that was always there, finally arranged so its energy can escape.
That is the entire pitch. Your organization is already sitting on the mass. We are in the business of the arrangement.
Big firms sell you a pyramid. We sell you the senior engineers who will actually be in the repo.
Who you actually get
Six people. You will meet most of them.
No bench, no offshore delivery centre, no account manager between you and the engineers. The people on the sales call are the people in the repo.
Four senior engineers & architects
Platform migration, lakehouse engineering and Unity Catalog governance. Everyone billing on your project has finished a migration before — not started one.
One ML / data scientist
Model lifecycle in MLflow, evaluation that holds up to scrutiny, and the retrieval and agent work that sits on top of the governed platform.
How we operate
Four principles we don’t bend.
These are not values on a wall. They are the reasons clients call us back, and the reasons we occasionally turn work down.
Senior only
Everyone who bills on your project has run a migration before. No pyramid, no bench to feed, no juniors billed as architects while they learn on your budget. The person on the call is the person in the code.
Fixed fee where it counts
Assessments and proofs of concept are scoped and priced up front, so we carry the risk of estimating wrong, not you. Where a fixed fee genuinely can’t fit the work, we say so and bill honestly by the day.
Your infrastructure
Code lands in your repositories, in your cloud, under your control. No lock-in, no platform to license back from us, nothing that stops working the day you decide you no longer need us.
Honest scoping
If a project is a bad idea this year, we will say so in writing — even when saying yes would pay better. Our reputation compounds over years; one oversold engagement does not.
A good fit
We’re not for everyone, and that’s the point.
A narrow shop is only useful if it is honest about its edges. Here is where we do our best work — and where you would be better served by someone else.
Where we fit
- You have a data platform to build, fix or move — Databricks, Snowflake or Fabric
- Reporting exists but nobody agrees on the numbers
- Models are stuck in notebooks and never reach production
- An AI initiative stalled because the data underneath is not ready
- You want senior people in the repo, not a slide deck
Where we don’t
- General IT, help-desk or staffing augmentation
- Net-new greenfield apps with no data or ML problem
- Work outside data, ML and AI, sold as if it were inside
The shape of the firm
Deliberately narrow.
- 100%
- Senior engineers on every engagement
- 3
- Capabilities we sell — and we say no to the rest
- Alpharetta
- Based in Alpharetta, GA; working across the US
- 2023
- Founded to do one job properly, not many jobs adequately
Start here
A free 60-minute architecture review
Bring your current architecture, data volumes and the workloads that hurt. You leave with a target-state diagram on Databricks, the three changes that would cut the most cost or latency, and an honest answer on whether you need us at all.
No slide deck. No procurement process. One senior architect on the call.