About the team

Luke J.H. Engstrom

Most tech consultants stay locked inside a single vertical. Luke operates across the entire stack. With a 17-year career spanning Defense, Media & Entertainment, and Enterprise Tech, including pivotal roles at open-source storage leaders like iXsystems (TrueNAS,) he has built a reputation as a technical polymath who masters the big picture.

Having traded a traditional academic path in history for the technical engine room, Luke skips the corporate boilerplate and KPI chasing. He focuses strictly on the architecture that matters: bridging the gap between high-level business strategy and deep, low-level engineering to build infrastructure that actually works.

David Schachtner

David doesn’t chase tech trends; he builds for endurance. With over 30 years of enterprise tech experience, including two decades as a foundational strategist, consultant, and customer advocate at Other World Computing (OWC,) he has spent his career separating market noise from genuine, lasting value. Holding an MBA but operating with the mindset of a craftsman, David bridges the gap between executive strategy and raw operational execution. Having engineered solutions across the storage and hardware industries for decades, he co-founded Crafted Data Solutions to eliminate corporate paper-shuffling and deliver resilient, high-performance infrastructure built to last.

From Defense to the Arts: Leverage 50+ years of combined engineering grit. Built for technical scale. Engineered by craftsmen.