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

DevFeed: [Industry Interviews: Uma Chingunde, Vice President of Engineering at Render](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/industry-interviews-uma-chingunde-vice-president-of-engineering-at-render-11852.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/interview-with-uma-chingunde-render>)

Author: Stephen Whitworth

Published: 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [incident management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-management.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [virtualization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/virtualization.md>), [stripe](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stripe.md>)

Tags: [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [industry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/industry.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [stripe](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stripe.md>), [virtualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtualization.md>)

## AI overview

An interview with Uma Chingunde, Render's Vice President of Engineering, covering her infrastructure background, work at VMware and Stripe, and lessons from Stripe's incident-management practices. She discusses rigorous incident reviews, shared incident-command rotations, organizational learning, and the importance of allowing engineers who own a system to lead during incidents.

## Source excerpt

We talk to Uma Chingunde, Vice President of Engineering at Render