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Sanveer Singh Osahan

I build customer value through engineering, leading teams that ship what customers trust and businesses grow on.

I'm a software engineer, and the Data + AI ecosystem is where I love to work. I build the systems that make data trustworthy at scale: data platforms, cataloging, lineage, and the extraction pipelines underneath them all.

The problems I like only show up at scale. At Atlan, I designed the industry's first incremental metadata extraction, taking extraction pipelines from hours down to minutes. It went on to power Atlan's Snowflake, Databricks, and Oracle connectors for over a hundred customers. Before that, I was a founding engineer at Boltic, building the core of a SaaS ETL platform.

I care about two things: the customer on the far end of the system, and the engineers building it. A lot of my work is mentoring, helping people reason about system design, performance, and the quality bar that makes software worth trusting by the customers using it.

Databricks is the platform I go deepest on. I helped strengthen Atlan's partnership with Databricks, working with their product and engineering teams to ship the System Tables for Lineage and Query History that our shared customers now derive real value from. I follow what they ship closely and enjoy seeing how their newest pieces solve real problems in the Data + AI space.

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There is something appealing about still watching tutorial videos or reading documentation where the steps being performed have an explanation of what we are doing and why we are doing it.

Coding agents may have made it faster to set up and execute, but suddenly you will see that your solution is using a webhook and you have no idea why.

This adds a comprehension debt, and you can’t optimise or scale a system that you do not understand.

A good strategy is to offload but be curious to learn. Get your solution to work first. You also can’t optimise or scale a solution that does not work.

When I was young in my software engineering career, I thought writing good, bug-free code was the most important thing that made a business run.

With time, I realized building great systems that scale is what actually matters more.

Then as a senior engineer and mentor, I learned that building a great team and helping them ship fast is the ultimate driver of business growth.

But when I stepped into building my own business, I now understand that sales is what creates and sustains a business so the engineers can get to write good code, build scalable systems, and build great teams.

The person you are when no one is watching is the real you.

Do hard things when no one is watching.

For thousands of years, human brains evolved to handle hard things and problems requiring full attention.

When all difficulty is removed, our brain does not relax but instead panics, searches for non-existent threats, and creates anxiety.

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