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I am Sanket Shah, founder and CEO of Deuex Solutions, where I focus on building scalable web mobile and data driven software products with a background in software development. I enjoy turning ideas into reliable digital solutions and working with teams to solve real world problems through technology.
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“Where can I find the right table?"
"Is this dashboard still accurate?"
“Who owns this dataset?"
If you’ve heard or asked these questions too often, you’re not alone. As teams scale and data volume explodes, context tends to evaporate. Dashboards multiply. Definitions shift. Tribal knowledge becomes a bottleneck. And suddenly, what should’ve been an insight becomes an investigation.
At Deuex, we lived in this chaos. Then, we changed the game.
Today, we have a single place where any engineer, analyst, or exec can find trusted data, understand its lineage, know who owns it, and see how it's being used. That journey wasn’t magic. It was metadata. And it was worth it.
Before transformation, discovery at Deuex looked a lot like it does at many growing data-driven companies:
Duplicate Tables: Same metrics, slightly different column names, wildly different numbers.
Shadow Dashboards: Built by well-meaning teams who didn't realize a source of truth already existed.
Unowned Assets: Pipelines running without maintainers, and datasets abandoned mid-way through rebranding efforts.
Tribal Context: Want to know what a column really means? Better find Priya from the marketing team... if she hasn’t left the company.
Our engineers were spending hours answering pings instead of shipping code. Analysts were rebuilding logic that already existed. And leadership had to second-guess every dashboard before making decisions.
We didn’t have a discovery problem, we had a trust problem.
We didn’t wake up one morning saying, “Let’s unify our metadata.”
We started by asking ourselves a simpler question: What’s stopping our teams from moving fast with confidence?
The answers fell into four key themes:
No Universal Catalog
Different teams had different ways of documenting data, with some using Confluence, others GitHub READMEs, and some not at all.
No Visibility into Lineage
When a dashboard broke, tracing it back to a failing job or upstream schema change felt like detective work.
No Signals on Quality
Was the data fresh? Was it ever validated? We had no way to know without running scripts or asking someone.
No Governance Workflows
Anyone could publish datasets. No one could confidently say what should be deprecated or protected.
We realized we didn’t need just documentation; we required context. Automatically captured. Always up-to-date. Universally accessible.
What we built is deceptively simple but deeply powerful. At the heart of our system is a connected metadata graph, continuously fed by a growing set of connectors that plug into everything from our data warehouse to orchestration tools.
Here’s how it works:
We ingest metadata from:
Data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery)
Data lakes and object stores
BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau)
Orchestration layers (e.g., Airflow, Dagster)
Git repos and CI pipelines
ML model registries
A set of automated workflows pulls metadata on tables, dashboards, jobs, and pipelines. These workflows run on a schedule and push metadata into a central store.
We extract column-level and process-level lineage to show how data flows across tools automatically. This means when something breaks downstream, we can trace it all the way back upstream in seconds.
We group assets into business domains (e.g., Marketing, Finance, Product Analytics) and assign owners and SLAs. Each domain publishes data products with clear contracts and owners.
The result? A living, breathing map of our data ecosystem with the context baked in.
After the rollout, things started to shift fast.
New analysts no longer ask, “Where do I start?” They open the catalog, find the Marketing domain, and browse certified dashboards, trusted datasets, and ownership contacts.
Instead of Slack messages like “What’s the right table for churn?” We now see links: shared catalog entries with lineage graphs, tags, and quality scores.
Every table has an owner. Every dashboard has a steward. And deprecated assets are marked loud and clear.
We introduced access roles, policies, and tagging rules without slowing teams down. Data products can be requested and reviewed with context, not confusion.
If you’re thinking, “This sounds great, but sounds hard”, you’re right. It wasn’t easy, but it was doable.
Here’s our playbook for a 30-day metadata graph rollout:
Stakeholders: Data engineering, analytics, platform, governance
Goal: Get everyone to agree on one thing: why this matters.
Output: Defined success metrics (e.g., fewer duplicate tables, faster onboarding, better ownership clarity)
Task: Set up ingestion from key sources (start with warehouse + BI tool)
Output: A working prototype with lineage, ownership, and basic tags
Policy Setup: Define domains, roles, and SLAs
Deprecation Plan: Identify unused assets and mark them for archival
Ownership Mapping: Assign owners to critical datasets
Training Sessions: Short workshops for data users
Slack Bot + Chrome Plugin: Integrate discovery where users already work
Feedback Loop: Run a survey, collect what’s working and what’s not
Auto-sync Everything: If metadata relies on manual updates, it will rot. Automate or don’t bother.
Celebrate Stewards: Make ownership visible and celebrated, not hidden.
Kill Dead Assets: Run usage reports. If something’s unused for 90 days, flag it.
Start Small, Show Value: You don’t need 100% coverage to win trust. Nail one domain, then expand.
Integrate with Alerts: When a pipeline fails, link directly to affected assets in the catalog.
Our journey from chaos to context wasn’t about a tool. It was about making metadata operational.
We moved from tribal knowledge to shared understanding. From broken trust to active ownership. From hunting for context to having it surface when we need it.
This isn't just better governance. It’s acceleration with guardrails.
We’re happy to share what worked, what didn’t, and what we’d do differently. If you’re tired of the chaos and ready for clarity:
👉 Book a 30-minute discovery to map your catalog rollout.
Let’s bring order to your data ecosystem together.
