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Governance Guardian

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Worships clean metadata and version control. Lives for data lineage and will fight you over naming conventions.

Governance Guardian

The reason your data hasn’t become a compliance horror story. Lives for clean lineage and revenge. Has a secret stash of policy docs and enjoys audits a little too much. Will ask “who owns this?” with the energy of someone about to file a ticket and change your life. They are the last line of defense against data anarchy. They've been known to wake up in cold sweats thinking about unstructured data and inconsistent naming conventions. They are the unsung hero and we thank you for your service.

“Thank the Governance Guardian—otherwise we’d be using six definitions of ‘customer’ and crying in spreadsheets.”

Governance Guardian
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