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Chetan Conikee: Create narratives of your journey. [CTO] [Career Notes]

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

Tech News, News, Daily News, Technology

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Founder and CTO of ShiftLeft, Chetan Conikee shares his story from computer science to founding his own company. When choosing a career, Chetan notes that "the liking and doing has to matter and be in conjunction with each other." Explaining the parallels in his home country of India and where he studied his for his masters in the US, Chetan stresses the need to find someone who inspires you to follow and learn from. On being an entrepreneur, he says, "The entrepreneurial mindset is a sum total of many sufferings that lead to success." Chethan advises you take time out to write narratives so that you are remembered and so that others following a similar path may learn from you. We thank Chetan for sharing his story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:12.6

What's your 2am security worry?

0:15.3

Is it, do I have the right controls in place?

0:18.1

Maybe are my vendors secure?

0:20.5

Or the one that really keeps you up at night,

0:22.7

how do I get out from under these old tools and manual processes? That's where Vanta comes in.

0:28.5

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0:34.4

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0:40.3

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0:45.3

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0:47.3

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0:51.3

and keep your program audit ready all the time.

0:55.2

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1:01.9

Get started at Vanta.com slash cyber.

1:05.3

That's V-A-N-T-A dot com slash cyber.

1:16.0

Music My name is Chaitan,com, slash cyber. My name is Chaythin Connicki.

1:18.3

I'm the CTO and founder at Shepleft.

1:35.3

You know, there are many things that I wanted to be, but given that I'm an immigrant, I grew up in India, it's very natural for the majority of the parents in India to charter the course of their children

1:41.3

to either become an engineer or a doctor.

1:47.1

You know, it was a binary zero or one choice.

1:55.8

I drifted towards engineering because I always like to hack, build things, reverse engineer things.

1:57.1

So it came very natural.

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