I had interviewed for the backend engineering internship role at Atlan in May 2021 and managed to get in. I just wanted to share my experience and some tips around the same. tl;dr I had applied for the opening via AngelList, and I sent in my resume and a cover letter explaining why I thought I was a good fit. After that I got…
Our week just got off to a brilliant start as we joined the third batch of Surge, a program by Sequoia Capital for rapidly scaling startups. Sequoia Capital has helped build leading global enterprises, from idea to IPO and beyond. They have backed the world’s most legendary #FutureofWork tools — Zoom, Github, Loom, Figma – and now, Atlan!Prukalpa Sankar, co-founder…
Who’s a happy startup? We are! All thanks to Analytics India Magazine (AIM), as they featured Atlan as one of the 10 emerging data and analytics startups in India in…
Appreciation is a great way of making someone’s day. And thanks to appreciation from Singapore Business Review (SBR), our week started on a high note. Why, you ask? They featured…
Atlan is all about the humans of data. But ever wondered about the people behind the vision? Who are the humans of Atlan and what do they do? To answer these questions and more, we’re starting off a series of blogs that will give you a sneak peek into life behind the scenes at Atlan. We spoke to Gaurav Singh,…
The short of it… we’re opening up our Atlan Grid API for teams everywhere! 🎉 We’re making it easier for teams everywhere to access the data they need, when they…
Culture is one of those words that gets thrown around everywhere. It comes up on the list of casually used buzzwords almost as frequently as “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning”.…
We’re building Atlan, a home for data teams. Atlan is a delightful new way to work with data. We bring together diverse data, tools and people to create a frictionless collaboration experience for data teams around the world.
We’re so excited to announce the launch of our second online course about geospatial data in R. Sign up here. When you hear “geospatial data”, what comes to your mind?…
Earlier this year in July, we hosted the first ever Delhi useR meetup in collaboration with the Delhi useR Group and R Consortium. We also had a chance to host…
As we at Atlan started to use big data (massive data from hundreds of sources), we quickly found that we needed to move everything to the cloud. With data sizes in TBs, we couldn’t keep a local copy of our data for analysis, so we needed to find a way to directly interact with data
At Atlan, we have always invested in the growth of our teams and people around us. To give back to the community and contribute, we collaborate with tech communities across…
The technology community today is very different than what it was a decade ago. With more and more focus on shared learning today, we are driven by collaborative projects and…
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Note: This blog was last updated in August 2019 with the latest information about our internships. “Intern, who?” This is the answer, or a question, from Atlan interns if anybody…
What Silicon Valley tells us about building great teams When many people think of Silicon Valley, they think of current tech giants like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple. But its…
Our Engineering Demos stemmed from a simple question — “How can we share knowledge among our engineers better?” All of our engineers were working on different, complex products, but they usually had knowledge that could help each other out. For example, we didn’t need to build completely different front-end and backend developer workflows, or unique infrastructure for Collect (our mobile…
We are always thinking deeply about the “dent” Atlan could leave on the universe. We’re asking ourselves, “What would it take to create a company that would have relevance for…
In 2016, we put down our 10 (base 10) Engineering Commandments, the values that our Engineering Team uses to guide its work. We didn’t use a long, complex process to…
The world today is connected more than ever before — everything that you wish to learn or build can be done with thousands of available resources on the internet. And even though this is great, there is unmatched learning that comes when you actually meet people from different backgrounds, knowledge and learn from their experiences. We started organizing meetups at…
Landsat is without a doubt one of the best sources of free satellite data today. Managed by NASA and the United States Geological Survey, the Landsat satellites have been capturing…