One Day, I Asked Our First Female Engineer… One day, I asked our first female engineer at Atlan how things were going. Her response (Voices of Atlan) 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.”…
Building a Scalable Engine for No-Code Workflows Setting the stage Managing multiple tasks—whether it’s approving requests, streamlining operations, moving data, or keeping teams aligned—can often feel like trying to juggle too many things at once. These challenges are universal, and we’ve experienced them firsthand. At Atlan, we set out to simplify this complexity for all the data teams. We envisioned…
During a previous internship, I was given a seemingly straightforward task, migrating new customer data into our databases and warehouses. However, I quickly found myself struggling and juggling between different people to figure out the source of a particular dataset. I questioned whether certain data was necessary or in what format it had to be processed and stored. Even though…
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…
Command-line interfaces (CLIs) help developers complete tasks quickly and efficiently. At Atlan, where we build tools to help data teams work better together, we’ve learned how a well-designed CLI can make a big difference. In this post, we’re sharing our insights from building CLIs at Atlan. You’ll find tips and strategies for designing CLIs that are simple, powerful, and loved…
