One Day, I Asked Our First Female Engineer… One day, I asked our first female engineer at Atlan how things were going. Her response made me the proudest: “I’ve been in companies with higher female/male ratios. But in all those companies, I was always reminded that I was a ‘female engineer.’ At Atlan, I’m just an engineer.” As a female…
When I first heard about User Research a decade ago, the first image that showed up in my mind was that of ‘cultural anthropologists’ – people who travel to new countries and continents to learn about the building blocks of a community of people. The goal is to understand why people do what they do – how people think, act, create, find meaning…
The Seven Pillars of Platform Team is a set of core values that guide the development of our technology platform. They include scalability, reliability, security, innovation, affordability, observability, and extensibility. In this blog, we outline these pillars and share more about how they guide the work done by the platform team at Atlan. ⚖️ Scalability Scalability is the ability of…
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…
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,…
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”. But I never really knew what it meant until 45 days ago, when I joined Atlan as a Data Science Intern. Atlan had an aura around its culture, so I…
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 refers to them as “interns”. And, why not? None of our interns work as “interns” at Atlan, so why should they get addressed as one? Too often, companies give interns…
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 story actually started four decades earlier with far more basic tech — the semiconductor. (This is how the area got its name, since silicon was one of the most widely…
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 hundreds of years?” We are moving rapidly from our childhood days into adolescence — an interesting time, where one typically has a strong sense of self and is now battling…
