10/16/2026
We work as a team and enjoy as a family. In September, the family went to Kuzhupilly Beach in Kochi. 🌴
Team members from across India met at Bengaluru airport. Some arrived with neatly packed bags, and some had clearly been packing until 3 am. 😂
Our Founder and CEO, Debjyoti Das, flew all the way from the US to join the India team, which gave him the best jet lag excuse in the group. 😉
We stayed at 36 Palms resort near Kuzhupilly Beach. Within an hour of check-in, the laptops were forgotten, and everyone was on the shore trying to find their good side for the golden hour photos. We took group shots, candid shots, and roughly forty retakes, because somebody always blinked. 📷📷
The backwater boat ride was the calmest any of us had been all year. There were no Teams pings and no client calls, just green water, mangroves, and a boat full of colleagues who suddenly became nature photographers and selfie geniuses. 🤳
At the Annual Gala, Dj walked us through the year and recognised the people who made it happen. Then the music started. We learned that some of our engineers debug code much faster than they dance, while a few of them dance far better than anyone expected. The prestigious “ThirdEye Data Annual Boat Dancer” award goes to Shahi, Mukherjee, Sai Pratyusha and Akalwadi. 🕺💃
In Fort Kochi, we visited St. Francis Church, which was built in 1503. That makes even our oldest legacy systems look young. We wandered through the old lanes of Princess Street on purpose, and a few of us also got lost in them by accident.
We came to Kerala for the beaches and stayed for the fish curry and appams. Nobody is admitting how many calories they had at the farewell lunch.
We came back with full camera rolls, slightly fuller stomachs, and the same belief we left with. The team that solves hard AI and data problems together on Monday is also the team that cannot stop laughing together on Saturday. That is the culture we want to keep building at ThirdEye Data .