October 2021 Summaries

Tecton has successfully completed its SOC 2 Type 2 report after nearly two years of effort implementing and operating a comprehensive set of internal controls and practices. The company's early days were marked by rapid growth and a need to establish customer and user trust, which led to the hiring of a dedicated security expert and a focus on implementing robust processes that make it easy for people to do the right thing. Tecton received its SOC 2 Type 1 report in September 2020 and its Type 2 report in October 2021, with zero exceptions indicating a high level of effectiveness in operating its controls. The company's journey towards SOC 2 compliance has been instrumental in its growth and maturity, and it will continue to improve its practices and pursue other designations to demonstrate its commitment to security and trustworthiness.

Tecton is a managed service targeted at enterprises, requiring strong operational setup and uptime SLOs to maintain strict latency guarantees. The team has built the software with operational requirements in mind from the start, releasing multiple times per week with minimal downtime. Every engineer at Tecton has a direct connection with a strategic customer, learning about their use cases, staging and production setup, features and users, providing a strong focus on user experience and empathy towards customers. The EPOC rotation ensures that every member of the team contributes to product discussions by directly supporting customers using their product. The engineering team at Tecton is incredibly talented, with a sense of camaraderie and desire to help each other, investing time in improving onboarding processes and demonstrating engagement and support for one another. The company values trust among its employees, allowing them to prioritize health over office attendance, while still fostering a strong work environment through various social activities.

Samantha Rydzewski is a software engineer at Tecton, where she works on updating and simplifying APIs for customers to fetch features from the offline and online store. She previously interned at Uncountable, a small startup that makes an enterprise data management platform for R&D scientists. Samantha enjoys synchronized skating, dance, and figure skating, and has been doing these activities since she was 10 years old. She is also a fan of Notion, which she uses to organize her life, and has a soft spot for Tabby Cat, a chrome plug-in that shows cute animals each time you open a new tab. When not working or skating, Samantha can be found listening to music on TikTok, watching memes on Instagram, or enjoying cookies from the Wooden Table Cafe in Oakland.