Industry Interviews: Uma Chingunde, Vice President of Engineering at Render

Uma Chingunde is the Vice President of Engineering at Render, a company that provides fast app and website hosting services. She has worked in infrastructure for many years, starting her career at VMware before moving on to Stripe where she was responsible for managing core infrastructure components. Incident management became an important part of her role during her time at Stripe due to the company's rapid growth and reliance on its infrastructure by customers. Uma emphasizes the importance of a blameless culture in incident management, as well as having robust systems in place to handle any issues that arise. She believes that investing time and effort into improving incident management processes can save businesses time and resources in the long run.