Manoj Shanmugasundaram
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Manoj Shanmugasundaram

Principal Solutions Engineer · Atlan

Manoj Shanmugasundaram is Principal Solutions Engineer at Atlan with 14+ years of experience in cloud and data solution architecture, spanning roles at Cloudera, Intel, and Atlan. He specializes in cloud transformations, data platform migrations, and the context infrastructure requirements for enterprise AI initiatives. His writing focuses on the natural language to SQL problem — the specific context gap that prevents talk-to-data AI from working reliably in production environments, and what organizations need to build to close it.

Expertise in

Solution ArchitectureCloud Data PlatformsNatural Language to SQLAI Data InfrastructureData GovernanceSemantic LayerEnterprise AI

Specialty

Solution Engineering | AI, Data & Governance

Experience

14+ years in cloud and data solution architecture (Cloudera, Intel, Atlan)

Notable Work

Principal Solutions Engineer at Atlan; 14+ years spanning Cloudera, Intel, and enterprise data platform architecture

Certifications

Cloudera Certified Administrator (Apache Hadoop)Cloudera Developer Training (Spark, MapReduce)Red Hat Certified EngineerRed Hat Certified ArchitectRed Hat Certified Security Specialist

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Manoj ShanmugasundaramPrincipal Solutions EngineerSolution Engineering | AI, Data & Governance14+ years in cloud and data solution architecture (Cloudera, Intel, Atlan)Cloudera Certified Administrator (Apache Hadoop)Cloudera Developer Training (Spark, MapReduce)Red Hat Certified EngineerRed Hat Certified ArchitectRed Hat Certified Security SpecialistLinkedInPersonal Site

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