I've been a DQE (data quality engineer) for 18 years. I work for Securian Financial in St Paul, Minnesota. I'm a long time member of DAMA MN (Minnesota data professionals) where I've met many like minded "data nerds". I went to graduate school at University of St Thomas in St Paul for "big data & machine learning." My favorite tools at work are Jupyter/Python + SQL. In 2025 my team is just getting started moving from file based data to API and my initial reaction to LDEx BEM 2.0 is that it's very well organized and well documented! Great work whoever should get credit!