In today’s episode, Rebecca talks with Iccha Sethi, the new VP of Engineering at Vanta. They discuss taking stock of an engineering organization as a new VP, how technical engineering managers need to be, and her work at Github, Atlassian, Invision, and now Vanta around operational health.
Find the transcript at: https://www.unblocked.fm/episodes/iccha-sethi-vanta
Timestamps
(0:00) Introductions
(0:52) About Vanta
(4:55) Engineering and cultural challenges
(10:50) Operational health for platform teams
(15:19) Communicating with non-tech leaders
(18:53) How Vanta handles incidents
(23:36) On strategic remediation and incidents
(29:14) Involving everyone in the conversation
(33:19) Common operational health mistakes
(37:06) About being an approachable VPE
(40:44) Practices to manage team meetings
Follow Iccha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/icchasethi
Follow Rebecca on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmurphey/
Links and mentions
• Vanta: https://www.vanta.com/
