About
I'm the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlan, where we're building the missing context layer for data and AI. We help the humans (and increasingly, the AI agents) of data do their best work together.
Atlan is the fastest-growing company in our space and is a leader across all major analyst quadrants—including both Forrester Waves and both Gartner Magic Quadrants in 2025-2026. We're trusted by enterprises like Mastercard, JP Morgan, Zoom, Dropbox, General Motors and Workday.
Before Atlan, I co-founded SocialCops, a data for good company where we built India's National Data Platform, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals tracker and drove data for good projects across 50+ countries impacting a billion people. We processed data for 500 million citizens and billions of pixels of satellite imagery—and learned firsthand how chaotic data collaboration really is.
We're backed by Insight Partners, Sequoia, GIC, and Salesforce Ventures, and honored to count the founders of Snowflake, Looker, and Datadog among our investors.
I write about data & AI teams, culture, metadata, governance, and leadership. I hope to become a published author someday—realized early that fiction wasn't my thing, so I'm trying to do cool stuff with my life that someday becomes worthy of a book.
"Context is King."
Writing
I publish Metadata Weekly, a newsletter on the modern data stack, governance, and the future of AI-native infrastructure.
Talks & Podcasts
Recognition
Bookshelf & Podcasts
Books and podcasts that have shaped how I think about building companies, leading teams, and understanding the world.
Books I've Written
A practical guide to building governance foundations for the AI era—covering everything from metadata strategy to operationalizing data trust at scale. Available on Kindle.
A children's book about my journey using data to solve community problems—written by Shreyasi Singh to inspire the next generation of data leaders.