Nine Engineering leaders dive into their experiences working at the fastest-growing pure-play security automation company.
Welcome to the “Life in the Swimlane” blog series. Here we’ll feature interviews with Swimlaners to learn more about their experience. This series will give you a preview of Swimlane, our culture and the people who keep us going.
There’s a lot you can learn about a company by talking to its employees. We want you to get to know Swimlane Engineering better, so we interviewed nine leaders across the engineering team.
Why did you initially choose to work at Swimlane?
Swimlane is at an exciting stage in its evolution - Transforming and growing as a cloud company and in a field, security automation, that is highly needed and offers lots of growth. I was impressed with the candor of the interviewers on the challenges and was encouraged by the welcome attitude that folks had when I shared how I could help them and make a difference. I joined because I am able to not only apply my knowledge and experience but also grow with the company as it transforms itself and I am excited to be a part of that journey.”
Rashmi Tabada Director of Program Management
I initially applied to work at Swimlane for a few reasons: I had heard of a good company culture from some former coworkers who had moved on to Swimlane, I wanted to get into the security automation space, and I had been a SOC analyst for seven years, so it was time for a change.”
Nick Tausek Lead Security Solutions Architect
Swimlane has a compelling reason to exist and grow. It seeks to serve a set of needs that I myself have had in the past. Just as importantly, the people I met in my interview process expressed a strong desire to better the Company and delight our customers.”
Leonard Hill VP of Engineering
Back in 2014, before Swimlane was Swimlane, I was contracted to build a data visualization library for the product. It was supposed to be a short, two-month engagement. That quick project turned into another, and here I am, 8 years later, still working at the same company, as excited as ever. What attracted me to join initially was the product itself - an automation platform with the potential to solve security analysts' biggest pains. What made me stay was the people.”
Marjan Georgiev Senior Engineering Manager
The main reason that I chose Swimlane is that there are a lot of interesting and challenging problems to solve that you just won't see working at most other companies. I also loved that working remotely is the default at Swimlane so everything here is geared towards supporting remote workers.”
Sean Grimes Engineering Manager
The Low-code and no-code vision for security automation is fascinating and Swimlane is one of the leading solutions in the market. With its leadership in innovation, it is well positioned to become an important company.”
Frans Xavier CTO
What’s the best thing about working at Swimlane?
The people, the culture - an adaptive mindset, a welcome culture.”
Rashmi Tabada Director of Program Management
The best thing about working at Swimlane is the company culture of excellence, helpfulness, acceptance, and happy innovation. I also enjoy the benefits package, and the open communication at the company.”
Nick Tausek Lead Security Solutions Architect
The best thing is the people. Over the years being at the company, I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside and learning from many brilliant engineers, which taught me a lot and helped me grow both as an engineer and a person.”
Marjan Georgiev Senior Engineering Manager
The team. We have a great, energetic, and talented team who do great work every day. Everyone brings their best every day to make sure we execute on our mission to automate the world of security.”
Brant Wheeler Senior Director of Engineering
I would have to say the main one is our people, we have an incredible group of people that are not only insanely good at their jobs but an absolute delight to work with. Other than that, I would have to say the competitive pay and benefits combined with a great work/life balance.”
Sean Grimes Engineering Manager
The amazing team and innovative culture”
Frans Xavier CTO
I enjoy working with the engineers here, and helping them develop their skills. I've found everyone to be very open to learning new things and growing as both engineers and people.”
Justin Walker Engineering Manager
What’s it like being a part of the Swimlane Engineering team?
We are on a mission to build the world's best and most innovative security automation platform. There’s a huge opportunity to work on solving really complex engineering problems.”
Frans Xavier CTO
Challenging the status quo with a keen eye on the future state we want to bring Swimlane to. An openness to acknowledge gaps/challenges and welcoming change to address them.”
Rashmi Tabada Director of Program Management
Fast-paced, with a variety of skill sets required to make our team successful. On the Content team, we architect the main generic customer-facing content inside the Swimlane/Turbine platforms, so we use a lot of security domain knowledge, Swimlane-centric knowledge, and technical skills to build complex use cases from simple components.”
Nick Tausek Lead Security Solutions Architect
We work in a fun, collaborative environment, where experimentation and innovation are encouraged. Each team is a mix of individuals of various backgrounds, experience levels, and skill sets, working together to achieve the team's goal. We use a modern tech stack and processes, following established standards and best practices.”
Marjan Georgiev Senior Engineering Manager
Everyone is very collaborative and everyone, even other teams, always come together to solve problems and make sure we build the best product possible. There are so many people here that I am very honored to have had the opportunity to work with.”
Brant Wheeler Senior Director of Engineering
The customer-first approach with engineering teams working closely with the field and professional services team in ensuring customer success. It’s a very cohesive, cooperative and agile engineering team.”
Ramanan Gandhi Vice President Engineering
If I had to choose a single word to describe what it's like being on the Swimlane engineering team, I would have to say "collaborative." We are constantly working with people inside and outside of the engineering team to make sure that we are delivering the best possible product to our customers. From the product managers that regularly work with our customers to determine what we need to build, to the designers that make sure that we deliver the best user experience possible, to the engineers that turn dreams into reality, everything at Swimlane is a team effort.”
Sean Grimes Engineering Manager
Interesting. Challenging. My team specifically is at the core of a lot of exciting new developments and innovations, which drive the heart of our new product, Turbine.”
Justin Walker Engineering Manager
What are you most excited about for the future of Swimlane Engineering?
Scaling the platform to support thousands of customers, and the introduction of key innovations like AI and Swimlane Turbine.”
Frans Xavier CTO
We have recently released Turbine, the latest evolution of our automation and orchestration platform, which was a result of many years of learning and experience in the field of security automation. What excites me for the future is the product roadmap ahead of us - it is full of great features and interesting technical challenges to solve.”
Marjan Georgiev Senior Engineering Manager
I'm excited for the upcoming feature releases in Swimlane Turbine, as the product matures to solve increasingly complex and difficult security problems.”
Nick Tausek Lead Security Solutions Architect
Building capable teams who have a high level of ownership is exciting.”
Leonard Hill VP of Engineering
There are a couple of things that I'm really excited about, the first would be the launch of our new product named Turbine. This is going to be a huge leap forward for our customers and it's going to be incredibly rewarding for me personally to see this product get into the hands of customers. The second one is our move towards the cloud, which will make things a lot easier for our customers since they'll no longer have to maintain their own infrastructure to use our product.”
Sean Grimes Engineering Manager
I'm excited as more organizations adopt Turbine. It really is a huge step forward in security automation and I look forward to seeing the value it brings to security teams.”
Brant Wheeler Senior Director of Engineering
Why would you recommend Swimlane to engineers looking for a new career opportunity?
Swimlane is simply a great place to work. We hire the best people that we can find, regularly solve interesting and challenging problems, offer competitive pay and benefits, and utilize the best technology available.”
Sean Grimes Engineering Manager
We are one of the fastest growing startups in the SOAR domain with top customer labels in our belt. There’s full growth potential and great possibilities for an individual’s career growth within the company.”
Ramanan Gandhi Vice President Engineering
At Swimlane you have an opportunity to make a big impact on a product that is used by security professionals at many Fortune 500 companies. It's a company of just the right size where you can feel well-supported and make a huge impact at the same time.”
Brant Wheeler Senior Director of Engineering
Swimlane is a fast-growing company, with the opportunity to work on novel problems in a way that can matter. If you're looking for a place to grow and have effectance, I highly recommend Swimlane.”
Justin Walker Engineering Manager
Swimlane is a highly dynamic, exciting company to work for, with good benefits, a great culture, and the most helpful, technically skilled people I've ever worked with. We have a global workforce, encourage remote work, and treat our people well.”
Nick Tausek Lead Security Solutions Architect
You'll work on a great product, using modern technologies, solving challenging problems, alongside awesome co-workers. If you like all of those things, Swimlane is the right place for you.”
Marjan Georgiev Senior Engineering Manager
You will be able to build out new services and tools, develop a high degree of ownership for them, and work with people who want to see you succeed.”
Leonard Hill VP of Engineering
There’s the opportunity to come up with critical technology innovations and experiment with leading-edge technologies”
Frans Xavier CTO
Life in the Swimlane
Swimlane is a rapidly growing, innovative startup in the Denver metro area with a passionate team focused on improving the lives of security practitioners through security automation and orchestration. We’re always looking for dedicated, ambitious problem solvers who thrive in a fast-paced work environment to join our team.
