S9 E29: Umaimah Khan , Opal Security

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Umaimah Khan grew up in San Diego, but now lives in the Bay Area. A fun fact about her - she was home schooled until college, and growing up, loved puzzles and math. She planned to be a math professor until she eventually got into startups and tech. She is a curious person, with many hobbies and interests. In fact, she loves to cook and was a chef at two different Michelin star restaurants. She also likes to garden, growing food and also interesting plants. In the past, UK found herself drawn towards real world problems in real time. What she found herself noticing was that access management was incredibly messy - and that people weren't willing to look behind the curtain to fix the problem. After she noticed that this problem kept surfacing , and decided to solve it. This is the creation story of Opal Security. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	We are a security company first and foremost. From day one, we have to build a lot of trust,
0:06.0	and that has to show through in our features. So we made very specific choices on what we would
0:11.9	prioritize from that perspective, such as being able to work in hybrid environments, because we knew that
0:17.8	even as a small company, if we wanted to be the backbone of people's access
0:21.3	management and least privilege like infrastructure, that they needed to feel like they could
0:26.2	manage us entirely and work in these, like, complex environments. Another example of this is like
0:30.7	building in our back in our product itself, which is something that you will often see in like
0:35.2	B2C or product ledled companies gets left until way
0:38.1	too late.
0:39.1	I'm Oma Khan, also known as UK, the co-founder and CEO of Opal Security.
0:46.7	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	It took many goes to get right.
1:01.9	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
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