Keith Belanger, Field CTO, DataOps.live
Keith Belanger is field CTO at DataOps.live with nearly 30 years’ experience in data. He has led multiple Snowflake cloud modernization initiatives at Fortune 100 companies and across diverse industries, specializing in Kimball, Data Vault 2.0, and both centralized and decentralized data strategies.
With deep expertise in data architecture, data strategy, and data product evangelism, Belanger has spent his career bridging the gap between business goals, technology execution, and community influence. He blends foundational principles with modern innovation to help organizations transform messy data into scalable, governed, and AI-ready solutions. Recognized as a Snowflake Data Superhero, Belanger contributes actively to the data community through conference talks, blogs, webinars, and user groups. To learn more, visit them or follow on LinkedIn.
Articles by Keith Belanger, Field CTO, DataOps.live
For years, manual ways to process DataOps—which Gartner defines as a collaborative data management practice focused on improving the communication, integration, and automation of data flows between data managers and data consumers across an organization—were tolerated as an unavoidable part of working with data. Scripts were crafted by hand, deployments relied on checklists, and governance lived in documents and in architecture review meetings. When something broke, teams fixed it manually and moved on. That approach worked until the stakes changed.
Posted June 16, 2026