Akash Tandon is a 2016 graduate from NIT Surat and is currently working as a Senior Data Engineer with Atlan, a data democratization firm, in New Delhi. Atlan had been selected as a technology pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2018. Previously, he was at Socialcops, a data intelligence firm involved in the execution of large-scale projects with partners ranging from national governments to the UN.

Akash is part of the team building a product to ease data governance and operations. His current work is focused on operationalization of data science workflows and application of graph technology for data discovery. He is passionate about the democratization of data and AI/ML, and a strong believer of open source software and communities.