1) How long have you been at Crayon? I’ve been here for 1 year and 1 month. 2) What do you do at Crayon? I’m a Data Scientist in the Platform RE Team (the best team). 3) What’s your average day like? The day is usually filled with percentages, averages,...
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Life @ Crayon – Saravana
1) How long have you been at Crayon? I’ve been at Crayon for 4.5 years. 2) What do you do at Crayon? I’m a software engineer. 3) What’s your average day like? My average day usually looks like the following - eat, sleep, work, have fun, repeat! 4) What’s your...
5 reasons we’re mad about Madras!
Madras Day 2019 On August 22nd, 1639, a sliver of land was bought by Andrew Cogan and Francis Day of the East India Company. Since the land was considered to be a ‘wasteland’ and unfit for agriculture, the local Nayak rulers readily sold it to the two British...
Life @ Crayon – Sundar
1) How long have you been at Crayon? 6 years 2) What do you do at Crayon? I'm the Engineering lead of the Platform team. 3) What’s your average day like? It’s full of meetings, discussions and writing code. 4) What’s your favourite Crayon memory? The cricket...
Why I attend the Crayon Engineering Meetups – and you should too!
In this blog, I’ll be talking about one of the best and slightly underrated initiatives taken up by the engineers of Crayon. Every week on Wednesday, the Platform, Product, Shared Services and Customer Success teams get together for an Engineering Meetup. In...
Life @ Crayon – Rohit
1) How long have you been at Crayon? I’ve been at Crayon for just over a year now. 2) What do you do at Crayon? Good question. I primarily am a product marketeer and the pre-sales point guard for our e-commerce vertical. But as a part of my learning curve, I dip my...
Life @ Crayon – Jessy
1) How long have you been at Crayon? It’s been more than 3 years now. 2) What do you do at Crayon? It’s my job to ensure the best quality of any deliverable goes out the exit door of Crayon’s dev factory. 3) What’s your average day like? My average day is usually...
Life @ Crayon – Akshaya
1) How long have you been at Crayon? There’s just a couple months left, before I earn my ‘2-year Whiz’ badge. 2) What do you do at Crayon? I manage the data curation team. 3) What’s your average day like? With the help of my little army of interns I execute client...
Life @ Crayon – Rahul
1) How long have you been at Crayon? Approximately 5 years. 2) What do you do at Crayon? I’m a Business Analytics Consultant. 3) What’s your average day like? My day usually consists of writing algos and interacting with clients. 4) What’s your favourite Crayon...
Life @ Crayon – Malathi
1) How long have you been at Crayon? For 3 years and 10 months. 2) What do you do at Crayon? I am a software developer. I sit in front of black & grey screens and I type commands that add flavours to Crayon’s products. 3) What’s your average day like? My...
Performance is its own reward: life hacks for personal growth and other learnings
Crayon Power Quotes Volume 2 1. Leadership is about making the right decisions, at the right time, and ensuring the workforce follows through with that decision with effectiveness. What are your thoughts? A lot has been written about leadership, but less so about...
Life @ Crayon – Devaki Gopalan
1. How long have you been at Crayon? It’s been just over a year… 2. What do you do at Crayon? I’m part of the Project Management Office. 3. What’s your average day like? My average day always begins with a wonderful cup of masala chai and ends with a wonderful...
Chai Break with Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi, Co-Founder and CTO, Crayon Data
This article was written by Gowri Rekha and originally published on Paul Writer. Paul Writer interviewed Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi (known as IVK) who is the Co-Founder and CTO of Crayon Data, a Big Data & AI product company at Singapore with a development center...
Life @ Crayon – Sunny Swetank
1) How long have you been at Crayon? Over 2000 days! 2) What do you do at Crayon? One of Crayon’s clients is a leading global airline. They have initiated a big and ambitious transformation program. The program is delivered through various innovation labs. I play the...
Show and tell with tangrams
When you're on a mission to make the complex simple, it’s not just nice but necessary to have a design sensibility that conveys it too. Crayon’s primary design element - the tangram, lends itself perfectly to the work we do with data. Inspired by the...
The many ways to Rome: what it means to be a charismatic leader
Crayon Power Quotes Volume 1 1. Leadership is about making the right decisions, at the right time, and ensuring the workforce follows through with that decision with effectiveness. What are your thoughts? Leadership is about clarity in thinking and the ability to...
Life @Crayon – Sujee Shalini
1) How long have you been at Crayon? It’s been about 3 years and 5 months. 2) What do you do at Crayon? My job is to find new Crayons to fill up our box. ? 3) What’s your average day like? Most of the day goes by in calls with existing, new or...
Life @Crayon – Muthukumaran
1) How long have you been at Crayon? I’ve been a part of the Crayon family for so long that I’m not sure about the exact number. But if I were to estimate, then the answer would probably be around 5 years. 2) What do you do at Crayon? You’ll usually find me...
Young ‘uns on a mission @ Crayon
We’re constantly being blown away by some of our younger Crayons. A few weeks ago, a triumvirate of Crayons gave us a demo. In a room filled with their peers and seniors, they presented a cool solution to an age-old, tedious but necessary process – client reports. In...
Life @Crayon – Krishnakumar
1. How long have you been at Crayon? It’s been around 5 years. Joined here on June 12th, 2013. 2.What do you do at Crayon? I don’t know exactly. If anyone has any clue, please do let me know. For now, I am working for the product team, and playing with...
Life @Crayon – Smruthi kilari
1) How long have you been at Crayon? It’s been about 1 year and 3 months. 2) What do you do at Crayon? Data mining and client delivery. But basically, everything data. 3) What’s your average day like? Every day is a new challenge. It’s full of regular campaigns, adhoc...
Why we really love our new office – Anissa Wong on our #NewDigs
What is a startup like ours to do, when we have big plans but no money? We mind every penny we spend. First and foremost, we invest in people. Then infrastructure and tools. Then marketing and business development. And then way down the list, the office space. Why...
Life @Crayon – Bella
1) How long have you been at Crayon? a. 1491 days (and still counting) 2) What do you do at Crayon? a. I spend nearly 90% of my time in presales. The other 10% is used for trips to the pantry and laughing at silly jokes. 3) What’s your average day like? a. I usually...
Life @Crayon – Priyanshu
1) How long have you been at Crayon? 4 years, 3 months, 4 days & 3 hours (as of writing this response) 2) What do you do at Crayon? Ranges from cheerleader to product manager 3) What’s your average day like? Coordinating work around our banking deployments,...
Life @ Crayon – Kandarp
How long have you been at Crayon? 3 Years and 6 Months What do you do at Crayon? Project Lead (Delivery) and Business Analyst What’s your average day like? I arrive at work with a plan of what I need to do for the day. This plan involves spending 50% of my time in...
Life @ Crayon – Bhavani
How long have you been at Crayon? Eight months. 2. What do you do at Crayon? I am the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) of Crayon. 3. What’s your average day like? I mostly push people to do their work. I think I should rename my job description to Chief Pushing Officer....
Life @ Crayon – Varun
1. How long have you been at Crayon? 3 years 2. What do you do at Crayon? I build big data applications using Java and Python. 3. What’s your average day like? The day mostly involves email, coding, chatting and working with incredibly smart co-workers, lunch...
Life @ Crayon – Grace Lee
Life at Crayon by Grace 1) How long have you been at Crayon? 3 years and 8 months 2) What do you do at Crayon? I’m the Ops manager, I handle Finance, HR, Admin work, P.A, or any other ad hoc work. 3) What’s your average day like? Busy, dealing with all the urgent work...
Life @ Crayon – Shobana
1) How long have you been at Crayon? Ten months. 2) What do you do at Crayon? Manage product testing. 3) What’s your average day like? First, I look at my team’s deliverables. Then these are discussed with the team to ensure that we are on the same page. The...
Life @ Crayon – Itzhik
How long have you been at Crayon? Since July 27th, 2015. 475 days have passed like it was a single moment. What do you do at Crayon? I lead the product management, engineering and customer deployments teams. AKA Product. What’s your average day like? No one day...
Life @ Crayon – Amrit
1) How long have you been at Crayon? Just about 4 years now. 2) What do you do at Crayon? Ah, the eternal mystery :). If anyone this knows, be sure to let me know! Besides making a general nuisance of myself, I assist our Product Engineering team. 3) What’s...
7 kinds of applicants who are NOT LIKELY to get a job at Crayon
This post has been co-authored by Prarthana Jairath. Recruitment rudiments at Crayon Crayon's culture is as unique as its people. We write our own values that charter the course of rainbows to the pots of gold, at the end of it. Here's a tongue-in-cheek look at...
The age of the cockroach
I read an article, The Age of the Cockroach, on Medium and found myself completely agreeing with it. In fact, it hit a sweet spot. We all know there’s a lot of money chasing that all B2C internet and e-commerce start-ups need to do. These investments however happen at...
Every day has its dog
While the world has paw-marked just one day of the year to celebrate dogs everywhere, our endearing four-legged friends of Crayon may have a different tail to tell. We don’t necessarily need a day to honour the canine kind at Crayon. We celebrate them in small ways,...
RIP, Anand
It was with deep sadness and sorrow that we received the news of the passing away of our colleague and friend Dr. Anand Ramachandran this morning at 630 a.m IST in Delhi. Anand had been unwell for a while with a respiratory problem, and flew to Delhi about two weeks...
EmployABILITY – A perception changing experience
Crayon Data recently participated in EmployABILITY – a job fair for differently able people. We were one among the 35 companies (J P Morgan, Reliance, Wipro, PayPal etc.) who participated in the event, looking for the candidates suitable to their requirements. As many...
A view from the Box
This is a space for us to crayon our thoughts, our points of view. On data. On analytics. On whats the latest. On whats coming your way. On how its going to change your life in maybe small, in maybe significant ways. In all possible aspects. The enterprise view. The...