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title: "Authors at Atlan - the practitioners behind our writing"
url: "https://atlan.com/authors/"
description: "Meet the named practitioners who write for Atlan - data engineers, governance specialists, and operators. Every byline links to a verified author profile."
---

> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

**The people behind Atlan's writing.** Atlan's articles are written by named practitioners - data engineers, governance specialists, and operators who work hands-on with the problems they write about. Every byline links to a verified profile.

## Authors

Article counts as listed on the page (2026-09-25).

| Author | Role | Byline type | Articles |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Prukalpa Sankar](https://atlan.com/authors/prukalpa-sankar/) | Co-founder & Co-CEO, Atlan | Co-founder & operator | 10 |
| [Emily Winks](https://atlan.com/authors/emily-winks/) | Data Governance Expert | Atlan staff | 845 |
| [Heather Devane](https://atlan.com/authors/heather-devane/) | Lead Content Strategist | Atlan staff | 19 |
| [Mark Manning](https://atlan.com/authors/mark-manning/) | Director of Product Marketing, Customer Advocacy | Atlan staff | 55 |
| [Ayswarrya G](https://atlan.com/authors/ayswarrya-ganapathiraman/) | Contributing Writer - Data Engineering & Metadata | Contributing author | 27 |
| [Karthik Pasupathy](https://atlan.com/authors/karthik-pasupathy/) | Contributing Writer - AI Context & Agents | Contributing author | 29 |
| [Kovid Rathee](https://atlan.com/authors/kovid-rathee/) | Head of Solution Architecture - Data & AI, Nexifi | Contributing author | none yet |

## Short bios

- **Prukalpa Sankar** is the co-founder of Atlan, the context layer for AI at organizations like Mastercard, Workday, General Motors, and Dropbox. She previously co-founded SocialCops.
- **Emily Winks** is a data governance expert who came to data through library and information science, with 18+ years from children's librarian to information architect at WeWork to Atlan's Founder's Office.
- **Heather Devane** is Lead Content Strategist at Atlan, leading editorial strategy on enterprise AI and the role of context in trustworthy AI systems.
- **Mark Manning** writes Atlan's customer stories with data leaders at Nasdaq, Autodesk, General Motors, Fox, Dropbox, Elastic, Porto, and Tide.
- **Ayswarrya G** is an independent consultant and one of Atlan's earliest writers, with eight years helping enterprise data teams turn dense technical concepts into content people use.
- **Karthik Pasupathy** is a product marketer and the founder of Rampkit, with over a decade helping B2B SaaS and AI-infrastructure companies explain complex products.
- **Kovid Rathee** is Head of Solution Architecture - Data & AI at Nexifi in Melbourne, Australia, with 14 years across teaching, full-stack development, data engineering, DevOps and cloud engineering, and agentic data engineering.