S2E4: Training the Next Wave of Privacy Engineers with Nishant Bhajaria (Uber)

The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast

Nishant Bhajaria is the Director of Privacy Engineering, Architecture, & Analytics at Uber and Author of "Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers.” He’s also an Advisor to Data Protocol, Privado & Piiano. In our conversation, we discuss privacy engineering trends, educational materials that Nishant has developed, and his advice to privacy technologists, engineers, and hiring managers.

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Nishant is a great example of a cross-functional, influential agent who has adapted to the ever-growing privacy discipline. He describes himself as an engineer for the attorneys and an attorney for the engineers, which has helped him secure positions at WebMD, Nike, Netflix, and now Uber.
Nishant shares his advice for career development, both through the lens of how to break into the privacy space and also how to grow within your role. He explains how he’s been able to get board-level understanding about the importance of privacy as a product, not an afterthought. He also highlights takeaways from his book and online courses.

Topics Covered:

• How privacy engineers can secure their jobs during this widespread tech industry layoff
• Privacy tech as the glue between different teams and in-house services
• How to make privacy more visible to the business as something that benefits the bottom line
• Common mistakes that Nishant sees engineers make when it comes to privacy
• What’s covered in Nishant’s ‘Privacy by Design’ courses

Resources Mentioned:

• Buy Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers
• Check out the Privacy Engineering Certification Course

Guest Info:

• Follow Nishant on LinkedIn

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Chapters

1. S2E4: Training the Next Wave of Privacy Engineers with Nishant Bhajaria (Uber) (00:00:00)

2. Why Nishant became interested in privacy engineering (00:02:02)

3. Nishant's definition of a "privacy engineer" & how he thinks the role will evolve (00:07:33)

4. The trends Nishant sees in the market regarding the hiring of privacy engineers (00:14:01)

5. Advice to hiring managers who are having a difficult time hiring for privacy engineering roles (00:16:49)

6. Career development advice for privacy engineers, including Nishant's LinkedIn Learning courses, Privacy Engineering Certification with Data Protocol & his book, Data Privacy: a runbook for engineers (00:19:32)

7. Nishant describes the privacy tech tools on the market that he finds useful (00:26:53)

8. Nishant's advice on how to shift privacy left (00:30:57)

9. Venture capital's role in understanding privacy tech and why it's essential to build community amongst privacy engineers (00:33:22)

10. How to appeal to privacy engineers when selling privacy tech solutions (00:36:46)

11. Nishant discusses the updates to his courses and book (00:39:46)