Meeting Title: Brainforge ETL Pipeline Project Check-in Date: 2025-07-17 Meeting participants: Demilade Agboola, Vishnu
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1 00:00:52.210 ⇒ 00:00:53.150 Vishnu: Hello!
2 00:00:56.650 ⇒ 00:00:57.889 Demilade Agboola: Hi, Vishnu! How are you?
3 00:00:58.340 ⇒ 00:01:00.299 Vishnu: Hey? Hi! I’m good! How are you?
4 00:01:00.650 ⇒ 00:01:01.589 Demilade Agboola: I’m doing very well.
5 00:01:06.470 ⇒ 00:01:12.699 Demilade Agboola: I’m trying to add the A call link for the rest of our calls.
6 00:01:13.580 ⇒ 00:01:15.879 Demilade Agboola: Okay, I think I just did that alright.
7 00:01:16.330 ⇒ 00:01:16.664 Vishnu: Okay.
8 00:01:17.190 ⇒ 00:01:19.600 Demilade Agboola: How have you been? How’s your week been? What’s what’s been happening with you?
9 00:01:21.668 ⇒ 00:01:24.060 Vishnu: It’s been going good. So
10 00:01:25.351 ⇒ 00:01:29.580 Vishnu: what was I working on? So I worked on of.
11 00:01:29.820 ⇒ 00:01:35.475 Vishnu: I worked on the clockify to snowflake Etl pipeline. Then the clockify to
12 00:01:36.280 ⇒ 00:01:43.799 Vishnu: sheets there was and then operating to Snowflake is what I’m building now and then
13 00:01:44.100 ⇒ 00:01:48.730 Vishnu: the operating 2 sheets. Yeah, that was another pipeline that I built.
14 00:01:48.970 ⇒ 00:01:55.809 Vishnu: And okay, yeah, so yeah, that was basically what I did. And
15 00:01:57.250 ⇒ 00:01:59.990 Demilade Agboola: Is there an end goal with all of this Etl.
16 00:02:02.360 ⇒ 00:02:06.140 Vishnu: As of now, there is no end goal, because for me, like
17 00:02:07.110 ⇒ 00:02:14.744 Vishnu: like, when you say an end goal, it would be to like visualize it, or like do something with the data. But at least
18 00:02:15.600 ⇒ 00:02:18.240 Vishnu: those tasks haven’t been assigned to me.
19 00:02:18.820 ⇒ 00:02:19.610 Demilade Agboola: Okay.
20 00:02:19.990 ⇒ 00:02:20.950 Vishnu: Yes, so.
21 00:02:20.950 ⇒ 00:02:21.620 Vishnu: So.
22 00:02:23.073 ⇒ 00:02:25.690 Vishnu: Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Go ahead.
23 00:02:25.990 ⇒ 00:02:31.299 Demilade Agboola: I was just gonna say that something that would help you, just generally speaking, is
24 00:02:31.450 ⇒ 00:02:40.069 Demilade Agboola: being able to ask those questions about it doesn’t have to be assigned to you. Obviously and different people in the team are doing different things.
25 00:02:40.210 ⇒ 00:02:49.989 Demilade Agboola: But one of the things I find that like shows that you are either one doing attention, and 2 that you’re thinking ahead is when you want to ask questions about
26 00:02:50.630 ⇒ 00:02:52.590 Demilade Agboola: what’s the end goal of all of this
27 00:02:53.383 ⇒ 00:03:07.190 Demilade Agboola: and so we’re trying to build a machine learning model that predicts blah, blah, blah, or someone says, Oh, no, we’re trying to, you know. Maybe visualize the hours by team, or whatever whatever whatever.
28 00:03:08.550 ⇒ 00:03:23.430 Demilade Agboola: Being able to hear that number one. It gives you some context as what’s going on. Number 2. It’s possible that you may have an idea that you can add to it. So, okay, how about we do this instead? Or how about we add more of this sort of data as well.
29 00:03:24.070 ⇒ 00:03:31.059 Demilade Agboola: or even 3. It also gives you the opportunity even ask like, Hey, that sounds interesting. Can I be part of that?
30 00:03:31.310 ⇒ 00:03:32.869 Demilade Agboola: Do you see what I’m trying to see.
31 00:03:33.430 ⇒ 00:03:34.270 Demilade Agboola: Yes.
32 00:03:34.270 ⇒ 00:03:39.370 Demilade Agboola: that is not assigned to you. I’m not saying it’s assigned to you, and this is not something that is your responsibility. I get that.
33 00:03:39.520 ⇒ 00:03:46.440 Demilade Agboola: but sometimes just asking those questions can open up conversations in a way that could also serve you really well.
34 00:03:47.730 ⇒ 00:04:02.589 Vishnu: Yes, yes. Got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely agree. Yes. I should be like asking. Yes, those questions. And in fact, like, this is like something that I was thinking to myself, but then I was like, yeah, let it just be because
35 00:04:03.640 ⇒ 00:04:05.969 Vishnu: yeah, I guess I’m gonna like.
36 00:04:06.180 ⇒ 00:04:09.229 Vishnu: then just open up and ask these questions.
37 00:04:09.650 ⇒ 00:04:11.683 Demilade Agboola: Okay, that’s fine. That’s fair.
38 00:04:13.540 ⇒ 00:04:22.330 Demilade Agboola: yeah. So anything. Is there anything like thing you add about just like the experience? So far, any feedback and.
39 00:04:23.620 ⇒ 00:04:24.220 Vishnu: I mean
40 00:04:24.520 ⇒ 00:04:25.719 Demilade Agboola: Like, so let let me know.
41 00:04:27.260 ⇒ 00:04:35.002 Vishnu: To give you feedback, like, yeah, this Etl pipelines is all that I was building. And also, like,
42 00:04:36.270 ⇒ 00:04:40.396 Vishnu: yeah, I had a bunch of other stuff going on parallelly. So
43 00:04:41.751 ⇒ 00:04:49.968 Vishnu: yeah, those works were also like going on. So yeah, I was just telling Uttam about it yesterday. And
44 00:04:50.630 ⇒ 00:05:01.890 Vishnu: I informed Avesh also. But so yeah, I had like a professor’s work going on. And there were like 2 interviews like 4 full time roles that were happening.
45 00:05:02.070 ⇒ 00:05:04.689 Vishnu: Alright. Yeah. Lucky.
46 00:05:05.030 ⇒ 00:05:14.420 Vishnu: Yeah, I got an awful letter from both of them. So one of it, yeah. So one of it is like a applied machine learning engineer for shopify.
47 00:05:14.650 ⇒ 00:05:19.150 Vishnu: And another one was a data engineer for Cbs.
48 00:05:19.880 ⇒ 00:05:26.558 Vishnu: so yeah, I just got that. And now I’m I’m like, so I was asking them like,
49 00:05:27.090 ⇒ 00:05:28.040 Vishnu: oh.
50 00:05:29.480 ⇒ 00:05:43.860 Vishnu: like, what would be like the future here at brain foods like, do you want me to talk full time. Do you want me to work part time? So then I I want to like, weigh the pros and cons of all the 3 things that I have on my plate and then make a decision.
51 00:05:44.380 ⇒ 00:05:51.659 Vishnu: And yeah, this was what I was telling utham yesterday as of today. I’m I’m like, most likely.
52 00:05:52.250 ⇒ 00:05:56.990 Vishnu: I will start like start the role at shopify
53 00:05:58.530 ⇒ 00:06:04.642 Vishnu: at least once this internship is completed. So that begins in September. And
54 00:06:06.930 ⇒ 00:06:15.780 Vishnu: yeah, so that was what was happening with me. And so if you were in my shoes like, what would you do like? What are your thoughts on this like.
55 00:06:17.340 ⇒ 00:06:26.159 Demilade Agboola: It’s kind of hard to answer that question directly, because I don’t know all your like circumstances, and what what really is important to you.
56 00:06:27.770 ⇒ 00:06:39.279 Demilade Agboola: Because for some people it’s a pure financial decision, like everything is the person that pays me the most is the company I work for some people. It’s a function of, I want to build experience. And I know that, like.
57 00:06:39.490 ⇒ 00:06:42.480 Demilade Agboola: if I get the experience, I can be a celebrity for money.
58 00:06:42.720 ⇒ 00:06:53.509 Demilade Agboola: so that also factors in for some other people. It’s like a work life balance like I don’t want the work to be too all like, even if they pay me more. If the work is so busy I don’t have time for
59 00:06:53.750 ⇒ 00:06:58.100 Demilade Agboola: social activities or my friends and family. It’s not worth it for me
60 00:06:59.090 ⇒ 00:07:03.950 Demilade Agboola: other people. It can be also things like visas or things like location
61 00:07:04.130 ⇒ 00:07:08.719 Demilade Agboola: like, is it going to give me a certain location? Would they provide a certain visa for me.
62 00:07:09.161 ⇒ 00:07:14.709 Demilade Agboola: So I can’t like. I can’t just give you a blanket statement. I say, do this, and also it’s also the career path.
63 00:07:14.960 ⇒ 00:07:26.029 Demilade Agboola: like, I know. For instance, I remember you saying you’re interested in like AI in AI engineering. So shopify does sound like like an assistant like, do you say applied machine learning.
64 00:07:26.030 ⇒ 00:07:27.510 Vishnu: Cloud, machine. Learning, yeah.
65 00:07:27.510 ⇒ 00:07:36.150 Demilade Agboola: Yeah. So that’s more in line with what you have said in the past. You’re interested in and so like, for instance, for that compared to like
66 00:07:36.702 ⇒ 00:07:42.610 Demilade Agboola: being this, you might not really, you know, be that enthusiastic about it, because
67 00:07:43.410 ⇒ 00:07:46.620 Demilade Agboola: it’s not necessarily the core thing you want to be doing
68 00:07:46.820 ⇒ 00:07:50.870 Demilade Agboola: so again. I think you should just wear everything kind of
69 00:07:50.870 ⇒ 00:07:57.426 Demilade Agboola: for me. That’s what I do with a lot of these things. I we all these things. I, we work life balance and we
70 00:07:58.090 ⇒ 00:08:02.620 Demilade Agboola: career path. Personally, I I personally, I value
71 00:08:04.140 ⇒ 00:08:06.799 Demilade Agboola: career experience, like experience and career path.
72 00:08:07.310 ⇒ 00:08:24.739 Demilade Agboola: And then finances. That’s kind of how I do it. But obviously the things that like for everybody else, things vary like. If you have visa things that like someone’s providing a visa for you. Another person is not like. Obviously you will pick that issue or someone provide like it all depends on like your personal circumstance, and I can’t
73 00:08:24.990 ⇒ 00:08:32.450 Demilade Agboola: I can’t. I know the full weight of every single game. I can’t really contribute to that. I can just tell you different criteria that you should look at.
74 00:08:32.780 ⇒ 00:08:33.410 Vishnu: Just make sure.
75 00:08:33.419 ⇒ 00:08:37.729 Demilade Agboola: Considering those as well also opportunities to grow, is another thing to consider.
76 00:08:38.202 ⇒ 00:08:42.990 Demilade Agboola: What does the next like? 3 years look like in that role the next 3 years
77 00:08:42.990 ⇒ 00:08:44.090 Demilade Agboola: look like in that role.
78 00:08:46.900 ⇒ 00:08:49.749 Vishnu: Okay, okay, so yeah.
79 00:08:50.144 ⇒ 00:09:18.720 Vishnu: also, like, yeah, I, that exactly like what you stated is like, also what I’m I’m like, super confused about and like. That’s also what I’ve been talking to a bunch of other people other folks. What is something that’s important for me? I would say for me. I’m just getting my career started after college. So yeah, I I would want to be with a good team where I’m able to like you said, asking the questions and like learning from others, seeing what others are doing.
80 00:09:18.750 ⇒ 00:09:19.480 Vishnu: And
81 00:09:21.810 ⇒ 00:09:31.999 Vishnu: yeah, given that also. Yeah, I also, I need somebody to like. I need one of these companies to sponsor my visa. Luckily for me, both these companies said, they’re gonna sponsor my visa.
82 00:09:32.210 ⇒ 00:09:33.120 Vishnu: Oh.
83 00:09:34.080 ⇒ 00:09:44.100 Vishnu: and but the catch with shopify is that it’s it’s like a 8 month long internship, whereas the Cvs role said, it’s going to be. It’s like full time. Hire
84 00:09:44.979 ⇒ 00:09:49.650 Vishnu: in the shopify role I might have to like, perform, and like
85 00:09:50.260 ⇒ 00:10:05.590 Vishnu: like, my job is not guaranteed there. So at the end of 8 8th month. If they are not unhappy with the work they can ask me to leave, but then, at least based off what the job description and based of like my
86 00:10:05.900 ⇒ 00:10:11.760 Vishnu: outlook. What like? Where I want to be some in the future, I was like, let me take the shopify
87 00:10:11.960 ⇒ 00:10:20.073 Vishnu: role for now, at least. That’s that’s what I’ve made my mind up and alongside alongside, if
88 00:10:21.453 ⇒ 00:10:34.520 Vishnu: I have the time, and like Uttam said, like I I did bring this up yesterday with him. So like. If if Uttam wants me to con keep contributing to brain forge projects, yeah, that will also be done.
89 00:10:34.850 ⇒ 00:10:43.829 Vishnu: Given that like I have the time, and like I’m not overloaded, because that will be my main priority as of
90 00:10:44.220 ⇒ 00:10:45.620 Vishnu: Oh, no.
91 00:10:48.180 ⇒ 00:10:50.900 Demilade Agboola: That’s fair. What else? What I will say is this, though.
92 00:10:51.740 ⇒ 00:10:55.460 Demilade Agboola: unless the offer from shopify is
93 00:10:56.540 ⇒ 00:10:58.879 Demilade Agboola: them getting a bunch of intern.
94 00:10:59.600 ⇒ 00:11:04.000 Demilade Agboola: It’s been like a competition, so like, Oh, we have
95 00:11:04.140 ⇒ 00:11:07.989 Demilade Agboola: 5 interns or 10 interns, and we only want to hire one person right.
96 00:11:08.390 ⇒ 00:11:08.850 Vishnu: Yes.
97 00:11:08.850 ⇒ 00:11:14.291 Demilade Agboola: That sort of competition. I don’t think you should get yourself too bothered about
98 00:11:16.300 ⇒ 00:11:21.340 Demilade Agboola: At the end of each month they can take you off, because if you think about it.
99 00:11:21.990 ⇒ 00:11:29.900 Demilade Agboola: Even if you take a full-time offer with Cvs. If they don’t feel comfortable, you walk after 5 months they can kick you off right, like
100 00:11:30.070 ⇒ 00:11:32.799 Demilade Agboola: anybody can keep you up for poor performance.
101 00:11:33.490 ⇒ 00:11:43.680 Demilade Agboola: So unless, like, as I said, unless it’s a direct competition where it’s a thing of like, okay, I’m competing with 3 other people, 4 other people, 5 other people for a position, a full time position.
102 00:11:44.340 ⇒ 00:11:51.720 Demilade Agboola: I can. I can understand your hesitation with the performance review after 8 months. But everyone does. Performance reviews. Everyone has to perform.
103 00:11:51.820 ⇒ 00:11:56.760 Demilade Agboola: Like, if I don’t perform on my job, I’m going to lose my job here, even here at brain force. So
104 00:11:57.260 ⇒ 00:12:00.519 Demilade Agboola: ultimately, I don’t think you should stress yourself up on that.
105 00:12:00.630 ⇒ 00:12:01.130 Demilade Agboola: I think.
106 00:12:01.130 ⇒ 00:12:01.470 Vishnu: Nope.
107 00:12:01.470 ⇒ 00:12:05.860 Demilade Agboola: You should have like belief in yourself that you can, and you will provide value.
108 00:12:07.530 ⇒ 00:12:10.880 Vishnu: Yeah. Okay, okay, okay, yeah. Okay.
109 00:12:11.120 ⇒ 00:12:16.540 Vishnu: I might. Yeah. I’ll have that ingrained like, have that mindset and then go forward with that. Yeah.
110 00:12:18.230 ⇒ 00:12:22.580 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, that mindsets will help you so much. Because again, like I said.
111 00:12:23.100 ⇒ 00:12:26.570 Demilade Agboola: every job, every like role is is literally
112 00:12:27.320 ⇒ 00:12:30.360 Demilade Agboola: performer. Get out like everything is that way?
113 00:12:31.113 ⇒ 00:12:32.260 Demilade Agboola: So if
114 00:12:33.070 ⇒ 00:12:47.279 Demilade Agboola: you shouldn’t be too bothered about the 8 month thing, just just if you know that you like, you look at the job description, and like, I can’t do this like this is something I can do, not pretending I’m not trying to fake it like I understand the job, and I know what like.
115 00:12:47.640 ⇒ 00:12:51.750 Demilade Agboola: I know what the job requires of me. I just need to maybe learn their systems, their
116 00:12:52.520 ⇒ 00:13:01.810 Demilade Agboola: way of life, their culture, how they handle things. There, that’s a different thing. But if once you look at that, you’re like I can do. Don’t you? Shouldn’t be too bothered about the 8 9 Review.
117 00:13:02.110 ⇒ 00:13:07.239 Demilade Agboola: We do reviews often even my previous company. We have Quarterly review that stuff.
118 00:13:07.780 ⇒ 00:13:17.599 Demilade Agboola: you know. I would have like performance improvements on this thing like there’s always everyone has those processes, you know, to get people that we don’t think are performing out the way.
119 00:13:18.350 ⇒ 00:13:20.309 Vishnu: Yes, yeah, yeah. Got it.
120 00:13:21.400 ⇒ 00:13:43.619 Vishnu: Yeah, thanks. Thanks for letting me know about this. Like, yeah, the like, I’ve I’ve been trying to like, ask, and like this is what I’m I’m like talking to as many people as possible to learn more about company culture in both the places and also, like in general, what mindset I should go in with. And yeah, like, that’s what like you’ve given me. Now.
121 00:13:43.810 ⇒ 00:13:45.499 Vishnu: I’m gonna keep that in mind.
122 00:13:45.620 ⇒ 00:14:02.598 Vishnu: And yeah, again, coming back to Brain Forge. So now I am. I’m I’m just like finishing up with the operating to snowflake pipeline. And then, I I did have a meeting with Hannah this afternoon, so avish avish wanted me to like
123 00:14:03.320 ⇒ 00:14:15.370 Vishnu: Give him a summary of that meeting, and then he asked me to ask Hannah and the marketing team a bunch of questions that will be useful data points to build the dashboard up.
124 00:14:15.580 ⇒ 00:14:32.850 Vishnu: So yeah, I I have all of that. I did record the meeting. So I’m just gonna have to like once. This pipeline is ready. That’s what I will do. And then I’m gonna send that out to avish, and that will be the end for today’s work, at least for brain force front.
125 00:14:34.090 ⇒ 00:14:35.700 Demilade Agboola: Okay, that sounds good.
126 00:14:36.930 ⇒ 00:14:38.730 Demilade Agboola: That sounds good.
127 00:14:42.150 ⇒ 00:14:50.009 Demilade Agboola: Alright, then. If you have any. Are there any other issues? Are you having any issues with the work. Is anything stressing you out, or is everything all good.
128 00:14:51.140 ⇒ 00:14:59.299 Vishnu: No, I I wouldn’t say anything is stressing me out like. In fact, like this is kind of the best situation to begin as that at least.
129 00:14:59.460 ⇒ 00:15:08.969 Vishnu: if if you would ask the past, me and the present me, I’m happy that I’m in the situation now, like how I’m getting experience in brain forge, like.
130 00:15:09.759 ⇒ 00:15:15.490 Vishnu: you know, doing things, building pipelines and also getting me ready for like
131 00:15:16.240 ⇒ 00:15:20.750 Vishnu: another full time role like, so yeah.
132 00:15:20.750 ⇒ 00:15:21.780 Demilade Agboola: So that’s fair.
133 00:15:24.280 ⇒ 00:15:26.739 Vishnu: All right, then. Thank you.
134 00:15:26.920 ⇒ 00:15:33.069 Demilade Agboola: You’re welcome. Take care, self! Again. I’m always like, I said. I’m always here. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.
135 00:15:33.900 ⇒ 00:15:35.450 Vishnu: Yes, yeah, I will.
136 00:15:35.950 ⇒ 00:15:36.940 Demilade Agboola: All right. Yeah.
137 00:15:36.940 ⇒ 00:15:38.260 Vishnu: You have a good one. Bye, bye.
138 00:15:38.260 ⇒ 00:15:39.479 Demilade Agboola: You too, bye.