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title: "Kovid Rathee - Head of Solution Architecture | Atlan"
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description: "Kovid Rathee is the Head of Solution Architecture - Data & AI at Nexifi in Melbourne, Australia. Over 14 years he has moved from teaching at an..."
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Kovid Rathee is the Head of Solution Architecture - Data & AI at Nexifi in Melbourne, Australia. Over 14 years he has moved from teaching at an engineering college through full-stack development, data engineering, and DevOps and cloud engineering to agentic data engineering. He writes on data engineering, context engineering, harness engineering, and the semantic layer, with bylines at The New Stack, Redpanda, QuestDB, InfluxDB, and Atlan.

## Profile

- Byline type: Contributing author
- Title: Head of Solution Architecture - Data & AI (Nexifi)
- Covers: data engineering, context engineering, semantic layer
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Atlan editorial contributor since Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kovidrathee/
- X: https://x.com/Kovid_R
- GitHub: https://github.com/kovid-r
- Medium: https://kovidrathee.medium.com/

## About Kovid

Kovid Rathee is the Head of Solution Architecture - Data & AI at Nexifi in Melbourne, Australia. He advises on and builds data platforms and agentic data engineering solutions with technologies spanning all major cloud and data platforms, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake, and ClickHouse. His first job was teaching at an engineering college, from which he moved to full-stack development, data analysis, data engineering, DevOps and cloud engineering - and now he spends most of his time in the agentic engineering space.

He has worked for early-stage startups, mid-sized businesses, and large enterprises alike, building data platforms to solve business problems at scale across software services, consumer technology, finance, legal, and market research. Along the way he has worked with and led teams of data engineers and analysts, giving him the depth and breadth required to implement large-scale solutions.

Kovid has been writing technical blogs since he was studying computer engineering. He has been published with The New Stack, Atlan, Redpanda, Equinix, QuestDB, InfluxDB, and DataStax, among others, covering cloud and data engineering, relational databases, database optimization, metadata and context engineering, and harness engineering. He believes writing is the best way to refine and organise knowledge and make it useful - for oneself and for others. His passion for writing continues beyond technology: he also writes about classical music and literature.

## Published in

- The New Stack - "How Decoupling Can Help You Write Better Software" (2023): https://thenewstack.io/how-decoupling-can-help-you-write-better-software/
- Redpanda - "Building a real-time CDC pipeline between ScyllaDB and Redpanda" (2023): https://www.redpanda.com/blog/cdc-pipeline-scylladb-redpanda
- InfluxData - "Visualizing Time Series Data with ECharts and InfluxDB" (2022): https://www.influxdata.com/blog/visualizing-time-series-data-echarts-influxdb/
- QuestDB - "Real-time stock price alerts using Python, Grafana and QuestDB" (2021): https://questdb.com/blog/2021/03/09/realtime-stock-alerts-python-grafana-questdb/

## Certifications & training

- Snowflake - SnowPro Core Certification (2026)
- Databricks - Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark 3.0 (2025)
- Databricks - Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate (2025)
- Databricks - Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate (2025)
- Astronomer - Airflow Fundamentals Certification
- Microsoft - Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900) (2023)

## Industry recognition

- Member, Australian Computer Society (ACS)
- Work cited in ACM conference proceedings (DOI 10.1145/3716554.3716567)
- Work cited in "Binary Hypothesis Testing for Softmax Models and Leverage Score Models" (arXiv:2405.06003)
- Work cited in an Uppsala University thesis (DiVA diva2:2070770)

## Articles

As listed on the page: no articles yet - Kovid's first byline is in editorial review. Profile: https://atlan.com/authors/kovid-rathee/

## Editorial relationship

Freelance contributor agreement. Kovid is an independent practitioner - the Head of Solution Architecture - Data & AI at Nexifi - who contributes to Atlan under a freelance content agreement. Articles published under his byline reflect his own analysis and expertise; Atlan's editorial team works with him on structure and clarity but does not author content attributed to him. He reviews and approves every piece published under his byline before publication. Atlan does not pay for placement of any external coverage.