Atlas staff highlights Mark Forster What non-Atlas piece of tech excites you most right now? Location: Halifax I’m currently falling into the rabbit hole that is the Role: Software Engineer world of coffee, weighing up what the best grinder Started: Atlas - Feb 18’ to get since I wore out my previous two. I’m really ATS - March 12’ interested in the Decent Espresso DE1 which adds next level nerdiness to a morning pick me up, sadly What were you doing before you joined Atlas? at around £3000 I think it might be a pipe dream (Atlas Christmas Present?!?) Pre-ATS I was working in a startup developing a Real Estate Management Cloud/Edge Application. If you were going to make a signature Atlas Within ATS, amongst other roles, I was working on cocktail, what ingredients would you include in it? We wanted to take the pre-sales & development for factory operations opportunity in these magazines scheduling solutions, this included working with As a fan of the classic mojito, I was introduced to to shine a light on some of the customers modelling processes from aerospace the rojito (raspberry mojito) last year by my partner. bright minds that make Atlas the blade manufacturing to Car Bumpers to Carbon I feel we should have an Atlas range of Mojitos with bubbling cauldron of innovation fibre Aircraft construction. different fruits from around the world. that it is. Possibly more important than the drink, I feel the What’s the most exciting part of your role? setting of the Atlas Cocktail Bar in Singapore would Seeing the results of our implementations where be the perfect place to enjoy the tastes of the world! digital meets physical, whether it be robot arms, 3D printing with welding technology or simple environment sensors, whilst digital modelling and simulation is an extremely powerful tool, the quirks of real life always bring surprises. What excites you most about Atlas, now and in the future? I’m currently falling into The opportunities we can open up once we start to gain traction deploying connectivity with lower the rabbit hole that is friction at scale and being able to apply our breadth the world of coffee of experience to real world problems such as in the BMW welding machine learning algorithms. ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE AUTUMN, 2022