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Meet Ankita Lamba: Values Champion

 

Recently, I wrote about our Values Champions program: a peer-nominated, peer-selected program designed to celebrate employees who holistically live up to Sonatype’s Core Values.

Today, I am excited to share one of our winners’ stories with you. Watch Ankita Lamba’s reveal video below:

 

I interviewed Ankita for her thoughts on the program. I must say, it was quite fun learning about Ankita’s experience with the initiative as well as her core values tips, and passion for great coffee. Check it out below!

Let’s start with an introduction: your name, role at Sonatype, and how long you’ve been with the company

My name is Ankita Lamba. I’m a Senior Security Researcher in the Data Security Research team. I’ve been with Sonatype for three and a half years now.

And what does the Data Security Research team focus on at Sonatype?

Our team does deep-dive vulnerability research. We are the group that curates CVE IDs and Sonatype IDs in open source components as well as malicious packages that are caught by our next-generation AI behavioral analysis. After our thorough research is complete, this deep dive data gets published and that’s what customers see in all our products.

What was your experience being a Values Champion – was it a surprise? How did you feel?

I was extremely surprised, I really wasn’t expecting it. It was funny because leading up to it, our Engineering Manager was trying to make sure that everyone attended the meeting without raising any suspicion! He was saying things like, “There’s going to be some announcements that you don’t want to miss” to our team. But without revealing anything else, he ensured all of the team made it to the meeting, including me! 

Once I heard my name, I just felt a huge sense of (Read more...)

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Sonatype Blog authored by Savanna Hajdasz. Read the original post at: https://blog.sonatype.com/meet-ankita-lamba-values-champion