Adapting Management Styles to a New Environment

In this episode of Tech Trek, Amir Bormand interviews Andy Foglia, the Director of Engineering at JupiterOne, to discuss adjusting management styles after joining a new company. Andy talks about his experience of transitioning from a big company to a startup and gives insights on how to adapt to new management styles. He also sheds light on the Jupiter One product that helps security practitioners understand what assets they have within their enterprise and identify potential vulnerabilities. Highlights: [00:01:15] Adjusting your management style. [00:03:05] Transitioning to a new challenge. [00:06:36] Taking risks in management. [00:10:05] Startup planning cycles. [00:11:26] Building relationships for success. [00:15:31] Transitioning to startups. [00:17:29] Managing engineers and staff. Guest: Andy Foglia has over eight years of experience as a Director of Software Engineering in education technology and Cybersecurity. Andy currently works at JupiterOne, a data platform applied to security use cases that delivers unified cyber insights to organizations. He manages the Integrations and Site Reliability engineering teams, which focus on data collection from 100+ platforms and enabling the engineering organization to improve the design and operation of its systems to be more reliable and scalable. JupiterOne secured Series C funding in 2022 with a $1B valuation. Previously, Andy worked at McGraw Hill as a Director of Software Engineering focused on Enterprise Integrations with 3rd party systems and all K12 digital products. During his time there, the organization transformed its business towards digital solutions, and Andy was responsible for building and managing several engineering teams focused on new digital products. Andy received a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-foglia-ab244758/ --- Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Tech Trek, and we would appreciate it if you would take a minute to rate and review us on your favorite podcast player. Want to learn more about us? Head over at https://www.elevano.com Have questions or want to cover specific topics with our future guests? Please message me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand)