Raja Balakrishnan

Senior Manager, Product Management

Raja Balakrishnan is a Senior Manager of Product Management at Snowflake, leading the Data and AI Governance portfolio in Horizon Catalog. His team builds the classification, masking, lineage, data quality, and access auditing capabilities that power Snowflake's governance stack — and the Cortex Code skills that bring them to every practitioner's terminal. He believes well-governed data is the foundation of trustworthy AI, and that the best governance is the kind you barely notice because it's built into your workflow.

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Introducing Data Governance Skills for Cortex Code

Discover Cortex Code governance skills in Snowflake. Use AI to classify data, enforce policies and monitor access with natural language—no SQL required.

Raja Balakrishnan

MAR 18, 2026|8 min read

Raja Balakrishnan

Introducing Data Governance Skills for Cortex Code

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