The Human Part of Automation with Divanny Lamas

Divanny Lamas is the CEO at Transposit, a platform that enables DevOps teams to build interactive runbooks. She’s also the managing director at Sutter Hill Ventures, a VC fund that’s funded tech startups since 1962. Prior to these roles, Divanny worked at Splunk for seven years, ending up as head of new product introduction there. She also worked as VP Products and Marketing at Context Relevant and an Associate at Google. Divanny is an alumnus of Harvard and has a degree in government and computer science. Join Corey and Divanny as they discuss the journey that led Divanny to her two current roles, what Sutter Hill Ventures thinks VCs should actually do, how Transposit thinks about data in different categories and what those categories are, how messaging data has been traditionally underleveraged, how Transposit and PagerDuty have different goals, how automation can improve the incident response process, what tasks humans are good at and what tasks humans are bad at, how it’s not feasible for any engineer to be an expert in everything, how DevOps is essentially agile in a sexier label, the rise of the platform team, and more.
About Divanny Lamas
Divanny Lamas is the CEO of Transposit, the DevOps automation company. Divanny and the Transposit team are creating a world where humans interact with machines successfully to manage today’s complex technology stacks. Divanny is also a managing director at leading venture capital firm Sutter Hill Ventures. She is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to tackle ambitious technical challenges. Prior to Transposit, she began her career at Google and spent seven years at Splunk, where she saw the rise of big data and was one of the early product managers working on building out visualizations and analytics. She was responsible for product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Splunk's marquee product, Splunk Enterprise. She also served as a senior director of customer success and the head of new product introduction at Splunk. Divanny obtained a bachelor’s degree in government and computer science at Harvard University.


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