Summary
Chuck Lathrope is a senior solutions architect with 20+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, database operations, and cloud migrations, currently helping customers onboard to Snowflake's Data Cloud. He has led teams through complex transformations—taking IT and data groups from on-prem datacenter stacks to Azure and modern CI/CD pipelines while maintaining HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC2 compliance. A certified data management professional, Chuck has deep expertise in SQL Server, data governance, MDM, and building repeatable ETL/replication processes that scaled BI from hourly feeds to enterprise reporting. He combines product engineering instincts with professional services delivery, often reverse-engineering tricky data issues and creating pragmatic automation that reduces operational toil. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he’s known for growing low-morale teams into high-performing organizations and for pragmatic, security-minded migrations that align engineering, compliance, and business goals.
10 years of coding experience