EnterpriseDB hires former CMRD team for governance work

EnterpriseDB has hired an engineering team formerly of CMRD that built the audit and evidence surface for the agent governance solution within EDB Postgres AI. The team joins the company's governance engineering organization to extend enforcement and evidence across Postgres and ClickHouse software. The addition bears on how agent actions are governed across both engines.

The hire follows EDB's acquisition of Altinity, which brings together the teams behind two of the most popular open source databases, Postgres and ClickHouse. IDC projects that more than 1 billion AI agents will be actively deployed worldwide by 2029, executing over 217 billion actions per day. Each action must be permitted or blocked before it runs, recorded as it happens, and explainable afterward, whichever engine it runs on.

PG AI enforces governance at the data layer, at the point of action, determining what agents can access and do. Its audit trail sits alongside an off switch held by the customer. With both engines in one system, the governance layer decides what every agent may read, run, and return. The team also built guided tooling for distributed Postgres environments and tools that help forward-deployed teams provision customer data and AI systems.

EDB will extend the team's audit and evidence work so that agent policy, audit, and evidence apply under one set of controls to both Postgres and ClickHouse software. The Altinity integration roadmap includes a shared Apache Iceberg catalog and consistent access controls across the two engines.

The team brings more than 55 years of combined professional engineering experience, and every engineer is paired with an AI agent on every build. “We give customers the controls and the proof they need to trust their agents,” said Kevin Dallas, CEO of EDB.

“We see every day where an agent can overreach, and that is exactly what governance has to catch,” said Christopher Mitchell, principal engineer at EDB and former managing partner of CMRD. EDB outlined plans to apply the same governance in every deployment mode on its roadmap, which includes bring-your-own-cloud, developer cloud, on-premises, and physical far edge for air-gapped, local hardware.