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Platform engineer, not analyst or data scientist
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Platform engineer, not analyst or data scientistwho you are and who you serve
The sharpest way to mis-position yourself is to talk like a data scientist. You do not build the dashboards or the models. You build the substrate they stand on and the self-serve primitives that let them move without you in the loop.
Ingestion, storage layout, the asset graph, governance, observability.
Self-serve primitives: a new analyst onboards a source or a dashboard without a ticket to you.
Your scorecard is adoption and reliability of the platform, not insights you personally produced.
Analysts, product and ML engineers, and leadership build the dashboards, models and metrics on top.
Their output is the scorecard for their layer - yours is the reliability and adoption of the substrate beneath.