Data Governance Fundamentals: Cataloging, Lineage, and Access Control

<p>Cascade Outfitters just got embarrassed in a board meeting by two tables with the same name and different numbers. This project follows senior data engineer Maya Okonkwo as she builds real data governance in response &mdash; not a compliance binder nobody reads, but a lightweight data catalog with real ownership and business definitions, a lineage-based impact analysis workflow for safe schema changes, column-level masking and row-level security for sensitive data, and an operating model that stays out of everyone's way. You'll see a real catalog metadata example, a real access control policy, and the automation that keeps governance from becoming the bureaucracy it's meant to prevent.</p>

Tools: PostgreSQL, dbt, SQL, Python, GitHub Actions