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Soumadip De

AI Product Manager at The Modern Data Company

Soumadip De is an AI Product Manager at The Modern Data Company, working on ontology, context management, and knowledge systems for enterprise AI agents. His work spans data-productisation, context mining, and agentic workflow enablement that help teams move from raw enterprise data to reliable answers and governed action.

Rakesh Vishvakarma

Data Engineer at The Modern Data Company

Rakesh is a data engineer who transforms raw data into fine wine. When he's not using AI to tag tables or make spot-on recommendations, he's deep into philosophical books or ones with more twists than his latest ETL pipeline, pondering existence and data governance.

Jose Almeida

Data Quality and Governance Lead

Jose Almeida is a Data Strategy & Governance Leader with 25+ years of experience driving business value across EMEA, and specialising in Master Data Management and Data Quality processes and technologies. Jose is also an Advisor, Speaker, and founder of the ‘Data Foundation’ Newsletter.

Aishwarya Sharma

Senior Analytics Engineer at The Modern Data Company

Aishwarya is a Senior Analytics Engineer at The Modern Data Company, focused on building end-to-end data solutions that bridge engineering and analytics. He works across data pipelines, modelling, and visualisation to deliver reliable, business-ready insights, combining strong technical expertise with a practical, problem-solving approach to modern data systems.

Abhishek Gupta K

Data Scientist at The Modern Data Company

Abhishek Gupta builds and deploys production-grade AI systems at The Modern Data Company, working across data pipelines, machine learning models, and agentic AI workflows. His work focuses on applying advanced ML techniques to real-world business problems such as forecasting, churn prediction, and supply chain optimization, while exploring emerging paradigms in multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation, and large language models.

Muskan Purohit

Technical Writer

Muskan Purohit is a Technical Writer contributing to community projects and tech journalism initiatives on Modern Data 101. She focuses on articulating modern data systems, platforms, and AI-driven architectures. Formerly, she worked with Amazon, training AI models and LLMs in collaboration with data developers. In addition, she has also led projects as a Content Manager @Lead with Tech, driving advocacy across data and technology domains.

Rachana Medishetti

Senior Data Engineer at The Modern Data Company

Rachana is a data engineer with 5+ years of experience with a deep passion for how businesses leverage data, focusing on building end-to-end data systems, from ingestion and pipelines to analytics. She is skilled in PySpark, SQL, Python, and Snowflake, focused on turning data into reliable, real-world business value.

Gaurav Patole

Principal Data Strategist- Data & AI Governance Specialist at Thoughtworks

Gaurav Patole is a Principal Data Strategy & Governance Advisor at ThoughtWorks and the author of Data Quality ROI. A seasoned data governance and data quality practitioner, he brings deep, hands-on experience helping global organisations turn trust in data into measurable business value. Formerly with BCG, Gaurav has led end-to-end data governance and quality programs across industries and geographies, bridging business and technology through his People-Process-Technology (PPT) approach. A frequent speaker and active community contributor, he is known for making data governance practical, people-centric, and ROI-driven