Hands-on principal engineer
Comfortable moving from architecture review into implementation details, debugging, deployment, and production support.
About
Principal-level engineering for systems where reliability is a business requirement.
PalmerCove LLC is the consulting and advisory practice of Kris Kokomoor, focused on operational data platforms, healthcare data systems, orchestration, observability, and practical cloud-native engineering.
Kris Kokomoor
Kris is a hands-on principal engineer and systems thinker with experience bridging engineering, data operations, and regulated business needs. His work emphasizes the parts of data platforms that determine whether people can trust them in production: orchestration, validation, observability, lineage, incident response, and maintainable architecture.
His background includes senior technical work at Pfizer, principal platform and quality engineering at Podimetrics, and ongoing exploration of AI-assisted engineering workflows for diagnostics, validation, and operational support.
Relevant Context
- Pfizer clinical data and regulated systems experience
- Podimetrics healthcare platform and quality engineering
- Airflow, dbt, BigQuery, Python, GCP, AWS
- Observability, validation, and operational reliability
- AI-assisted engineering and local agent experimentation
Role in engagements
A bridge between architecture and operations.
Operational systems thinker
Focuses on the complete operating loop: ownership, alerts, testing, runbooks, data contracts, cost, and change control.
Healthcare/platform specialist
Experienced in environments where data quality, traceability, validation, and auditability cannot be treated as optional extras.