Challenge
Enterprise users needed a clear path to find, understand, request, and consume data while respecting access controls for sensitive information.
My role
Defined reusable enterprise data platform patterns and led governed data discovery and access experiences at American Express.
Solution
Connected ingestion, curation, discovery, and delivery. Applied NLP to metadata enrichment and lineage, and designed workflows for requesting, subscribing to, and consuming trusted data.
Impact
- Unified ingestion and metadata capabilities across 900+ tables and 100,000+ attributes.
- Improved attribute accuracy by 10% across 500,000+ fields through NLP-powered metadata enrichment.
- Reduced curation from weeks to hours.
Recognition
A 2023 patent covers distribution, searching, and retrieval of data assets across distributed big-data environments.