Let me paint a picture: Bob is a talented engineer, eager to make a difference on the team. He works hard and releases several changes to production. However, despite following the proper testing and release procedures, a bad release manages to slip through, impacting customers and causing frustration. Although Bob isn’t to blame, the incident takes a mental toll. He…
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 software engineering 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.…
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…
