In conversation with Uma Chingunde, VPE at Render

In an episode of Tractable, Kshitij Grover, co-founder and CTO of Orb, interviews Uma Chingunde, VP of Engineering at Render, about managing and optimizing complex technical platforms. The conversation focuses on the importance of continuous AI investment for reliability, the need for transparency and a blameless approach during critical incidents, and the impact of decision-making on operational changes. Render aims to be a modern cloud platform for developers, offering a platform as a service that abstracts away infrastructure complexities to enhance the developer experience. By bridging the gap between the resources provided by traditional cloud services and developers' desire for streamlined workflows, Render seeks to eliminate the undifferentiated toil engineers often face. Uma draws on her extensive experience, including her time at Stripe, to discuss strategies for running mission-critical workloads and serving diverse user segments effectively.