Mastering operational health with Iccha Sethi from Vanta

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Engineering Unblocked

Swarmia

27 episodes

5 days ago

Keeping software engineers in flow and unblocked is one of the key responsibilities of software development leaders. In each episode of the Engineering Unblocked podcast, Rebecca Murphey interviews leaders who have navigated challenges of scale, complexity, and growth. You’ll hear from people with lived experience across the software development ecosystem, from CTOs and VPEs to directors and line managers to product managers, program managers, tech leads, and more.

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Mastering operational health with Iccha Sethi from Vanta

Engineering Unblocked

44 minutes 37 seconds

1 year ago

Mastering operational health with Iccha Sethi from Vanta

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/