About Fortress-Gridworks

Fortress-Gridworks, founded by Johannes Plambeck, is a data management and analytics consultancy. We serve cities, small businesses, non-profits, NGOs, CDCs/EDCs, and contracting entities on a project basis. Our clients have included school districts, public transit advocacy groups, and small businesses. Our solutions include database-dashboard integrations, predictive models, and recommendation systems.

When you work with Fortress-Gridworks, we ensure a continuous maintenance engagement model that matches your projects with locally-sourced data scientists and engineers. Our model priorities shared resources so that your projects can always be re-assigned in the event of turnover.

Meet the Team

Nate Carlson

CTO, Software Engineer

Ambidextrous Ltd., led by Nathan Carlson, delivers on-prem software engineering solutions for startups and enterprises, specializing in backend development and network management. Nathan’s track record includes scaling a tech startup from 500 to 150,000 users and directing technical strategy at Ouray Digital using Scrum. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science and is a certified Agile practitioner.

Johannes Plambeck

Founder M.Sc, Geospatial Data Scientist

Johannes Plambeck obtained his M.Sc from Cornell University in Regional Science in 2015 and has worked as a site selector, engineer, data scientist, and economist for corporate entities like Newmark Knight Frank, Spectrum, and Pfizer Inc. He has worked with several startups in the domains of satellite informatics, crypto-currency, health-technology, and OEM. He specializes in distributed data science and engineering applications for business and economic data.