About
Mission
WaterDataOps LLC
WaterDataOps LLC helps water organizations establish reliable, observable, high-quality data operations, before scaling new digital and AI programs. Our platform supports data integrity, operational excellence, correct decision-making, and trusted customer engagement.
Our focus is practical: improve day-to-day data reliability, reduce hidden risk, and make decision-support outputs consistently accurate across the full water data environment.
Operating Principles
How WaterDataOps Operates
- DataOps-first execution: prioritize stable, measurable operations before advanced tooling.
- Observability by design: make quality, latency, and pipeline health visible from source to decision.
- Water-domain specificity: align technical delivery to utility, basin/watershed, agricultural, industrial/commercial, and residential/multi-unit contexts.
- Reproducible delivery: use tested, traceable workflows for data cleaning, integration, and analytics products.
- Continuous improvement: treat operations as a system that is measured and iteratively improved over time.
Leadership
J. Bryan Curtis, Principal and Founder
Bryan leads WaterDataOps engagements with a cross-disciplinary background spanning:
- environmental monitoring and hydrology
- weather and environmental data science
- water utility analytics and operational data workflows
- full-stack software development for hosted decision-support applications
This combination of domain and engineering experience allows WaterDataOps to connect field and utility realities with production-grade data and software practices.
Credentials
DataOps Certification and Applied Practice
Bryan holds DataOps Fundamentals certification and applies those methods directly in WaterDataOps delivery work.
WaterDataOps applies these principles in water contexts to improve error rates, cycle time, collaboration, and measurement discipline across data environments.
Certification Snapshot
Certification details (OCR + visual verification from certificate image):
- Issuing organization: DataKitchen
- Credential: DataOps Fundamentals Certification
- Awarded to: Bryan Curtis
- Approved by: Chris Bergh, CEO
- Date issued: Sep 12, 2025
- Valid until: Sep 12, 2028
Build a Stronger Data Foundation
If your organization needs cleaner data, better observability, and dependable delivery across operational and analytical workflows, WaterDataOps can help.