Engineering Manager & Platform Architect

At Atlan, I've worked across multiple roles spanning senior IC, platform architect, and engineering manager. My focus has been building and scaling the metadata backbone that powers Atlan's enterprise data platform across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Current focus
Building enterprise-grade data platforms for unstructured metadata at scale, enabling AI-native use cases:
• Defining and operationalizing reliability standards across distributed systems
• Driving multi-cloud orchestration and operational maturity
• Operating systems handling billions of metadata records toward 99.99% SLA
Problem space
Atlan operates at the intersection of data governance, metadata management, and enterprise scale. The platform supports hundreds of enterprise customers with strict requirements around reliability, security, isolation, and performance.
What I owned
Led the design and evolution of Atlan's core platform and data infrastructure, including the Metastore and Metadata Lakehouse — the control plane for metadata, search, and governance across billions of records.
Scope: platform architecture, multi-tenancy design, reliability engineering, and growing the team from infrastructure-focused to a data platform organization.
Key outcomes
• Led transition from infrastructure-centric systems to core data platform ownership
• 7x improvement in tag propagation throughput while sustaining 99.9% reliability
• 3x search performance improvement, enabling AI-driven discovery
• 58% reduction in customer-reported incidents through systematic reliability engineering
• Designed and operated multi-cloud systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Leadership
Beyond technical work, focused on building high-performing teams:
• Grew platform team from 4 → 10+ engineers across India and US timezones
• Established architecture review processes improving technical decision quality
• Built sustainable on-call practices reducing burnout while maintaining reliability
• Mentored engineers from junior to senior, with multiple promotions
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