Nickolas Means

Nickolas Means, VP of Engineering at SYM, discusses topics such as building a blameless culture during incidents, building a compliance program without impacting engineering velocity, cross-training dev and security teams, the challenges of shifting left in software development, the relationship between programming languages and security conferences, crafting secure applications, and the launch of sim, a platform for managing access to production systems.

Nickolas Means, an engineer turned engineering leader, talks about peer mentoring, building a support group, managing up, and more. They discuss transitioning into a management role, the challenges of feedback loops when managing managers, measuring productivity in teams, building relationships, managing a manager, and negotiating with managers of managers.