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: 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: www.linkedin.com/in/icchasethi • Follow Rebecca on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rmurphey/ Links and mentions • Vanta: www.vanta.com/ Find more episodes at: www.unblocked.fm/

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