Meeting Title: Brainforge Internship Progress Check-in Date: 2025-07-17 Meeting participants: Awaish Kumar, Vishnu


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1 00:01:28.080 00:01:28.620 Awaish Kumar: Hang on!

2 00:01:28.620 00:01:29.490 Vishnu: I Amish.

3 00:01:30.460 00:01:36.150 Awaish Kumar: I? So yeah, can you please share your screen?

4 00:01:37.030 00:01:38.580 Vishnu: Oh, yeah. Okay.

5 00:01:50.242 00:01:51.270 Vishnu: Just a second.

6 00:02:04.520 00:02:05.230 Vishnu: Yeah.

7 00:02:06.800 00:02:07.580 Vishnu: Oh.

8 00:02:07.580 00:02:10.219 Awaish Kumar: I open the linear mode.

9 00:02:11.160 00:02:11.940 Vishnu: Okay.

10 00:02:13.170 00:02:14.180 Vishnu: Oh, my.

11 00:02:17.840 00:02:18.600 Vishnu: they’re gone.

12 00:02:22.800 00:02:23.550 Awaish Kumar: Yep.

13 00:02:27.405 00:02:28.250 Vishnu: So

14 00:02:31.440 00:02:38.499 Vishnu: this is done and operating I’ll do it today.

15 00:02:39.370 00:02:46.649 Vishnu: And I just submitted like the pr I was running into an error. I was looking at that.

16 00:02:48.820 00:02:54.579 Awaish Kumar: Okay. But like, why is it like.

17 00:02:55.040 00:03:01.969 Awaish Kumar: is it taking so long? Like we established like, we established the Snowflake connection

18 00:03:02.150 00:03:07.969 Awaish Kumar: together? After that it should not be like it should have been done in an hour, or something.

19 00:03:09.510 00:03:20.105 Vishnu: Yeah, so so yesterday, yeah, there was a little bit of delay, and

20 00:03:20.930 00:03:21.540 Vishnu: yeah,

21 00:03:24.620 00:03:29.100 Awaish Kumar: Like it has been 2 weeks almost like 2 weeks.

22 00:03:29.730 00:03:33.930 Awaish Kumar: and we are not able to finish a single pipeline.

23 00:03:34.770 00:03:35.530 Awaish Kumar: No, no, no!

24 00:03:36.530 00:03:39.880 Awaish Kumar: While, like the estimated estimate we made was like

25 00:03:40.540 00:03:44.840 Awaish Kumar: 5 and 5 is like 2 days of work.

26 00:03:46.660 00:03:47.400 Awaish Kumar: I can.

27 00:03:47.400 00:03:48.210 Vishnu: Oh!

28 00:03:48.210 00:03:51.290 Awaish Kumar: At Max. It should have been like 16 h of work.

29 00:03:53.170 00:04:00.360 Awaish Kumar: And like like we tried our best to give you all the possible like help.

30 00:04:01.490 00:04:04.880 Awaish Kumar: pair, program and everything. So I’m not sure like

31 00:04:05.570 00:04:09.720 Awaish Kumar: like yesterday when I signed off. It’s like it was the start of the day

32 00:04:09.960 00:04:12.599 Awaish Kumar: when we establish the connection.

33 00:04:12.850 00:04:19.850 Awaish Kumar: So after that, like I, I should have received your Pr. In an hour or so, so. I can review it yesterday and close it out.

34 00:04:20.100 00:04:30.020 Awaish Kumar: So now in the next. We are in the next day, and the clock, if I, Pr is still failing on ci CD part. So that means it is not yet complete.

35 00:04:31.900 00:04:34.830 Vishnu: Yes. Yeah. Okay.

36 00:04:35.990 00:04:49.170 Awaish Kumar: And then I have to give you feedback, or we can solve it together. But, like I’m I’m not sure like. Why it’s taking like? Is it something you’re struggling with? Is it something you are learning, or is it something like I’m not

37 00:04:49.500 00:04:54.189 Awaish Kumar: I I don’t have any any clue like, why is it taking so long.

38 00:04:54.720 00:04:55.500 Vishnu: Oh.

39 00:04:55.810 00:05:05.659 Vishnu: okay, okay, just to make it clear. Like, yeah, I had like multiple things running parallel. And I, I’m just getting clarity on the other fronts

40 00:05:05.840 00:05:23.309 Vishnu: like at this time of the day in the morning, like, I’m having to like work on another project. And there was a couple of interviews that I was preparing for, and I was giving those interviews yesterday. I was in fact, I just updated with them also on the same thing yesterday.

41 00:05:23.470 00:05:24.480 Vishnu: Oh.

42 00:05:24.830 00:05:33.075 Vishnu: so yeah, that was the delay. So okay, also, like, since you, I’ll just let you know. So

43 00:05:33.580 00:05:48.920 Vishnu: I I was in this interview process with shopify and Cvs. And I just received like the offer offers from both of those. And yeah, that was running parallel to this. And then I also had my professors work going on.

44 00:05:49.697 00:05:54.752 Vishnu: So yes, it. It was a lot of work going on parallelly, which is why

45 00:05:56.077 00:05:58.460 Vishnu: there was delay on this front.

46 00:05:59.667 00:06:05.910 Vishnu: But yeah, 2 of those 2 of the things have been finish now.

47 00:06:06.170 00:06:08.729 Vishnu: So yeah, I’m gonna get back to this. Now.

48 00:06:08.730 00:06:12.329 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, okay, I will review the Pr.

49 00:06:12.650 00:06:19.290 Awaish Kumar: let’s see how far we can like push push today. Yep.

50 00:06:19.520 00:06:22.288 Vishnu: Okay, okay, so this was,

51 00:06:22.750 00:06:25.290 Awaish Kumar: But I expect at least like.

52 00:06:25.810 00:06:30.887 Awaish Kumar: even if not 40 h per week, like we ex expect, at least like

53 00:06:31.580 00:06:37.459 Awaish Kumar: I like spending like 30 h, maybe, but, like what I’m seeing is

54 00:06:37.590 00:06:41.070 Awaish Kumar: spending less than 10 HA week.

55 00:06:41.600 00:06:45.779 Vishnu: So that’s like, yeah, that’s not acceptable. Yes, I get it.

56 00:06:46.230 00:06:48.639 Vishnu: Yeah, catch up. Now.

57 00:06:48.640 00:07:01.749 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, that’s the same like, I’m time the time I’m spending on this time. Other stakeholders are spending on this like is like, collectively, it makes it makes. We are spending more time on you than you are spending on

58 00:07:01.890 00:07:04.140 Awaish Kumar: on this internship.

59 00:07:04.140 00:07:06.370 Vishnu: Task. Yes, yeah, yeah.

60 00:07:06.670 00:07:10.890 Vishnu: I mean, sorry about that. But yeah, I’m gonna catch up on it.

61 00:07:11.430 00:07:12.160 Vishnu: Oh.

62 00:07:12.160 00:07:12.860 Awaish Kumar: Okay.

63 00:07:13.250 00:07:14.690 Vishnu: Starting today.

64 00:07:15.460 00:07:37.390 Vishnu: yeah, I I told Utam the same thing yesterday because I mean, I just got clarity. And I I asked him like, Hey like see at at Brainforge. Now I have like 2 complete like offer letters which I can join full time. And if I have to join full time. I also have to now move out of DC and go to Seattle, find accommodation there.

65 00:07:37.430 00:07:57.940 Vishnu: And so yeah, like so many things in my head running, and I was like which one should I take? And I was asking Uttan, can he give clarity whether like this brain forge will I have work with brain forge like full time, or like at least part time, so that accordingly I can decide whether I should take shopify or I should take Cvs.

66 00:07:58.010 00:07:59.200 Vishnu: So oh.

67 00:07:59.670 00:08:08.000 Vishnu: yeah, I think, but yeah, that’s not excuse. But I’m just letting you know. And that that was why, like you, you were like.

68 00:08:08.000 00:08:36.159 Awaish Kumar: That’s but yeah, like, we haven’t. We haven’t seen anything like from you like like, if even if we make have to make any hiring decision. We have to see some progress, some work output, something right? And I haven’t. We haven’t able to deliver anything to a stakeholders like. I like some and anything anyone else on the team. I even maybe I can give some feedback like. But anyone else

69 00:08:36.657 00:08:49.040 Awaish Kumar: stakeholders or mentors, or like, they have no clue like what you did so far like, there’s no output on the on the side. So yeah, I’m

70 00:08:49.380 00:08:50.190 Awaish Kumar: yeah. Okay.

71 00:08:50.190 00:09:05.400 Vishnu: Yes, come, I I completely get it. And I’m like, Yeah, that. So okay today, this will be done. And so operating, I/O Api, I was just I wanted to ask you like, can I add it to? Daxter environment variables.

72 00:09:07.450 00:09:10.529 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, yeah, like, what do you mean by hand over like.

73 00:09:12.727 00:09:16.539 Vishnu: No, I meant to say like here there was no operating.

74 00:09:16.720 00:09:17.240 Vishnu: Are you.

75 00:09:17.240 00:09:21.869 Awaish Kumar: So there is no like. But I I have like that. There, you have a key which you are using.

76 00:09:21.870 00:09:22.230 Vishnu: Yes.

77 00:09:22.230 00:09:27.390 Awaish Kumar: Data, right? You can add here, you can add that key in the environment variable and just use it.

78 00:09:27.820 00:09:32.159 Vishnu: Okay, okay, yeah. I just wanted to ask you if I have the permission to like add.

79 00:09:32.160 00:09:32.610 Awaish Kumar: You.

80 00:09:32.610 00:09:33.550 Vishnu: Oh, okay.

81 00:09:33.550 00:09:38.099 Awaish Kumar: Okay, go ahead. So yeah, I would like to see all these tasks which are in the

82 00:09:38.280 00:09:40.499 Awaish Kumar: for in progress closed today.

83 00:09:41.860 00:09:43.030 Vishnu: Yes, okay.

84 00:09:44.350 00:09:50.200 Vishnu: okay, yeah. Because this will be done. I have a marketing meeting. So I’m gonna ask these questions and collect.

85 00:09:50.200 00:09:54.620 Awaish Kumar: So you you already have had one meeting. So just 1st of all, like.

86 00:09:55.180 00:10:03.379 Awaish Kumar: put forward the what, what? What wasn’t happen? What happened in that meeting because I was not there, so I’m not sure I have no clarity.

87 00:10:03.380 00:10:04.930 Vishnu: So, okay, yeah, I can give you, okay.

88 00:10:04.930 00:10:09.689 Awaish Kumar: Have a notion document. Have a notion document, write down everything you

89 00:10:10.040 00:10:21.170 Awaish Kumar: discuss in that meeting, and also like whatever you are going to discuss in this meeting. Prepare a full document, and then I can review it, and maybe split it into the tasks.

90 00:10:22.600 00:10:23.720 Vishnu: Oh, okay.

91 00:10:24.390 00:10:25.920 Vishnu: Oh, okay.

92 00:10:26.130 00:10:29.009 Vishnu: Oh, okay. Okay. I’ll do that.

93 00:10:29.630 00:10:33.019 Awaish Kumar: Okay, you can create like just a private new page.

94 00:10:34.460 00:10:35.909 Awaish Kumar: Oh, okay, on my.

95 00:10:36.650 00:10:39.120 Awaish Kumar: So in the brain forge, if you go back

96 00:10:41.370 00:10:45.209 Awaish Kumar: like, there should be the in the private side.

97 00:10:45.870 00:10:50.199 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, there should be. Yeah. You can add a page and share it with me after you

98 00:10:50.320 00:10:51.949 Awaish Kumar: add the details.

99 00:10:54.060 00:10:55.480 Awaish Kumar: Okay, thank you.

100 00:10:56.650 00:11:00.069 Vishnu: Cool. Okay, alright, abish thanks. Bye.