The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast

S2E4: Training the Next Wave of Privacy Engineers with Nishant Bhajaria (Uber)

Jan 31, 2023

42:37

Nishant Bhajaria is the Director of Privacy Engineering, Architecture, & Analytics at Uber and Author of "Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers.” He’s also an Advisor to Data Protocol, Privado & Piiano. In our conversation, we discuss privacy engineering trends, educational materials that Nishant has developed, and his advice to privacy technologists, engineers, and hiring managers.

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Nishant is a great example of a cross-functional, influential agent who has adapted to the ever-growing privacy discipline. He describes himself as an engineer for the attorneys and an attorney for the engineers, which has helped him secure positions at WebMD, Nike, Netflix, and now Uber.

Nishant shares his advice for career development, both through the lens of how to break into the privacy space and also how to grow within your role. He explains how he’s been able to get board-level understanding about the importance of privacy as a product, not an afterthought. He also highlights takeaways from his book and online courses.

Topics Covered:

How privacy engineers can secure their jobs during this widespread tech industry layoff
Privacy tech as the glue between different teams and in-house services
How to make privacy more visible to the business as something that benefits the bottom line
Common mistakes that Nishant sees engineers make when it comes to privacy
What’s covered in Nishant’s ‘Privacy by Design’ courses

Resources Mentioned:

Buy Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers
Check out the Privacy Engineering Certification Course

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