Lucido Technology Consulting

Own Your Educational Data. Building a data-first foundation for California public schools — local infrastructure, interoperable pipelines, and FERPA-aligned analytics that stay under your control.

What We Do

We help K-12 school districts break free from vendor lock-in with open-source, local-first data infrastructure. Our work spans:

Infrastructure Audit — Assess current data systems and identify sovereignty gaps
Pipeline Architecture — Design ETL/ELT pipelines for CALPADS, SIS, and assessment data
Data Governance — FERPA-compliant governance with role-based access and audit logging
Analytics Stack — DuckDB + Polars + Apache Arrow for millisecond queries on-premises
FERPA Compliance — Ensure all student data stays within district control

Open-Source Stack

Technology	Role
DuckDB	In-process analytical engine — sub-10ms queries
Polars	Fast DataFrame library for ETL workloads
Apache Arrow	Columnar format for zero-copy data sharing
dbt	Data transformation and lineage

On Hugging Face

We publish models, datasets, and Spaces focused on educational data use cases — text classification for student support, entity recognition for administrative workflows, and open datasets for equity analytics. Everything we share here is built to be practical, reproducible, and aligned with our mission of data sovereignty.

Founder

Frank Lucido — 20+ years in educational technology, spanning IT leadership for nonprofits, public schools, and global education initiatives. Previously VP of IT at Making Waves Academy and Technology Advisory Board Member at Room to Read.

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