Meeting Title: Brainforge Team Member Introduction Date: 2025-07-29 Meeting participants: Sam Roberts, Casie Aviles
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1 00:00:51.080 ⇒ 00:00:52.150 Sam Roberts: Hello!
2 00:00:57.120 ⇒ 00:00:58.080 Casie Aviles: Hey! Sam.
3 00:00:58.780 ⇒ 00:00:59.789 Sam Roberts: How are you doing.
4 00:01:00.880 ⇒ 00:01:02.290 Casie Aviles: Yeah. Doing good. How about you?
5 00:01:02.290 ⇒ 00:01:04.530 Sam Roberts: Doing all right, you know, a little.
6 00:01:04.670 ⇒ 00:01:09.509 Sam Roberts: Got a lot going on trying to catch up with everything and seem to keep into it all. But
7 00:01:09.620 ⇒ 00:01:11.487 Sam Roberts: we’re making progress.
8 00:01:12.530 ⇒ 00:01:13.240 Casie Aviles: Nice.
9 00:01:13.807 ⇒ 00:01:18.189 Sam Roberts: But yeah, I mean, I think this is just a you know. Intro, we can, you know.
10 00:01:18.330 ⇒ 00:01:26.748 Sam Roberts: get to know each other, one on one love to learn a little bit more about your background background. And I can get in. And then
11 00:01:27.210 ⇒ 00:01:31.110 Sam Roberts: yeah, I just love to hear about like what you’ve been working on, and how it’s all gone.
12 00:01:31.400 ⇒ 00:01:34.560 Sam Roberts: Just a little more information for me to get up to speed.
13 00:01:36.070 ⇒ 00:01:37.730 Casie Aviles: Okay. Yeah. Sounds good.
14 00:01:39.300 ⇒ 00:01:42.945 Sam Roberts: Cool. So I can start. If you want
15 00:01:43.640 ⇒ 00:01:47.220 Sam Roberts: Yeah. So just my background. I’ve been working in startups
16 00:01:47.960 ⇒ 00:01:53.160 Sam Roberts: for a little over a decade. I was originally a mechanical engineer.
17 00:01:53.300 ⇒ 00:01:56.889 Sam Roberts: but I got into software and startups way back when
18 00:01:57.760 ⇒ 00:02:03.010 Sam Roberts: been bouncing around different capacities, mostly tech
19 00:02:03.554 ⇒ 00:02:09.925 Sam Roberts: for years. My last company was in London, where I worked with partner to start a
20 00:02:10.919 ⇒ 00:02:24.409 Sam Roberts: collaborative dashboard online like whiteboarding and notes and video chat and all this stuff. And that was sort of around the time tracking was launched. So I’ve been kind of playing with AI since then in various forms.
21 00:02:24.798 ⇒ 00:02:33.010 Sam Roberts: Certain side project. I’ve been freelancing for a little over a year and a half now, doing a lot of you know, everyone wants some AI stuff. So even when I’m just doing
22 00:02:33.880 ⇒ 00:02:38.042 Sam Roberts: mostly front end back end, I’m I’m basically a full stack like typescript dev
23 00:02:38.760 ⇒ 00:02:46.232 Sam Roberts: And and my technical ability. But that obviously comes with a lot of AI stuff now, too. So I’ve been doing a lot of it.
24 00:02:46.750 ⇒ 00:02:51.799 Sam Roberts: in various forms. Yeah. So I’d love to hear a little bit about you.
25 00:02:52.660 ⇒ 00:02:57.653 Casie Aviles: Yeah, that’s pretty impressive. Yeah, me, I’m I’m relatively early in my career.
26 00:02:59.500 ⇒ 00:03:09.830 Casie Aviles: yeah. So I’ve just, you know, it’s just been past one year since I started working. Yeah, so yeah, I, I have a computer science background.
27 00:03:10.715 ⇒ 00:03:13.559 Casie Aviles: So first, st so when I was like
28 00:03:13.860 ⇒ 00:03:18.089 Casie Aviles: about to finish college. That’s when Chatgpt came out, and so.
29 00:03:18.090 ⇒ 00:03:18.640 Sam Roberts: Yeah.
30 00:03:18.640 ⇒ 00:03:24.620 Casie Aviles: Yeah, suddenly, that was the hype. So that’s where I found myself.
31 00:03:25.241 ⇒ 00:03:27.969 Casie Aviles: That’s yeah. The trajectory. I found myself in.
32 00:03:28.960 ⇒ 00:03:35.920 Casie Aviles: yeah. So I start. I started working with a startup as well. It’s a Polish startup.
33 00:03:37.090 ⇒ 00:03:37.750 Sam Roberts: Okay.
34 00:03:37.750 ⇒ 00:03:42.554 Casie Aviles: Mainly I did like just Chatbot prompting there.
35 00:03:44.430 ⇒ 00:03:54.179 Casie Aviles: yeah, and some Crm stuff. And then, yeah, I got into brain forge. Actually I that in my 1st job. That’s where I met Miguel.
36 00:03:54.720 ⇒ 00:03:55.200 Sam Roberts: Okay.
37 00:03:55.950 ⇒ 00:03:58.310 Casie Aviles: Yeah, and we work together.
38 00:03:59.130 ⇒ 00:04:05.000 Casie Aviles: And then he got yeah, he, he pulled me over here to Brain Forge. And yeah, it’s been.
39 00:04:05.930 ⇒ 00:04:11.030 Casie Aviles: when did I start? I think, last November? Yeah, November.
40 00:04:12.660 ⇒ 00:04:13.240 Sam Roberts: Great.
41 00:04:14.255 ⇒ 00:04:20.340 Sam Roberts: And how’s it been since then? How would it? You know how the projects been like? How is it now? I’m just curious, and it’s trying to
42 00:04:21.050 ⇒ 00:04:28.310 Sam Roberts: get as much information as I can about everything. And then I’m not really sure where best to start. But I guess yeah. How’s it? How’s it been.
43 00:04:28.310 ⇒ 00:04:36.559 Casie Aviles: Yeah, yeah, sure. I think it’s it’s been good. Like, I definitely like I’ve been.
44 00:04:37.515 ⇒ 00:04:40.649 Casie Aviles: What do you call this? I I feel like I pushed.
45 00:04:40.810 ⇒ 00:04:44.169 Casie Aviles: I’ve been pushed a lot more here, like in terms of like
46 00:04:45.200 ⇒ 00:04:46.870 Casie Aviles: My knowledge.
47 00:04:47.170 ⇒ 00:04:47.700 Sam Roberts: Great.
48 00:04:47.700 ⇒ 00:04:52.790 Casie Aviles: Yeah, a lot a lot of the times. I’m just learning stuff as I go.
49 00:04:54.080 ⇒ 00:04:59.270 Casie Aviles: yeah. And I, I don’t really have like the you know, traditional
50 00:04:59.820 ⇒ 00:05:01.899 Casie Aviles: what they call this like. I didn’t start out
51 00:05:02.130 ⇒ 00:05:05.950 Casie Aviles: with all the in in a corporate like, you know.
52 00:05:06.570 ⇒ 00:05:12.500 Casie Aviles: So it’s kind of just everything’s kind of new. Everything’s just fast paced so.
53 00:05:12.890 ⇒ 00:05:14.045 Sam Roberts: That’s the best way to do it.
54 00:05:14.703 ⇒ 00:05:15.690 Casie Aviles: I know.
55 00:05:16.197 ⇒ 00:05:19.670 Casie Aviles: But yeah, I mean, I guess the only thing is.
56 00:05:21.360 ⇒ 00:05:26.189 Casie Aviles: what do you call this? I kind of you know I I didn’t get to have as much
57 00:05:26.770 ⇒ 00:05:31.970 Casie Aviles: like, you know, like the traditional software engineering
58 00:05:34.860 ⇒ 00:05:37.997 Casie Aviles: work where there’s a lot of you know.
59 00:05:39.072 ⇒ 00:05:46.800 Casie Aviles: yeah, I’m not sure how to best describe it. But yeah, that was that wasn’t kind of like my intro to this kind of
60 00:05:47.170 ⇒ 00:05:49.830 Casie Aviles: work. So I guess you know, we’re we’re lacking.
61 00:05:50.150 ⇒ 00:05:56.179 Casie Aviles: I mean, I’m personally, I think that’s where I’m that’s an area I could that needs improvement on. Like you know.
62 00:05:56.180 ⇒ 00:05:56.880 Sam Roberts: Okay.
63 00:05:57.120 ⇒ 00:05:58.090 Sam Roberts: Great to know.
64 00:06:00.150 ⇒ 00:06:06.070 Casie Aviles: But yeah, it’s been good. I think. Yeah, I’ve learned a lot working here. So yeah.
65 00:06:06.070 ⇒ 00:06:06.850 Sam Roberts: Excellent.
66 00:06:07.060 ⇒ 00:06:13.289 Sam Roberts: And what have you been working on recently? I I’ve been sitting in on some of these meetings now, but I’m just I, you know, want to hear from you, I guess a little bit
67 00:06:13.750 ⇒ 00:06:16.179 Sam Roberts: like the details and and stuff.
68 00:06:17.430 ⇒ 00:06:21.569 Casie Aviles: I’m sure right now I I’m just handling
69 00:06:22.617 ⇒ 00:06:26.792 Casie Aviles: some client work so primarily for for ABC. Women commercial
70 00:06:28.200 ⇒ 00:06:30.960 Casie Aviles: and then, internally, I just help around with
71 00:06:32.960 ⇒ 00:06:38.009 Casie Aviles: with, you know, with the automation. So currently, I’m I’ve been working on
72 00:06:38.430 ⇒ 00:06:44.150 Casie Aviles: helping the operations team with their internal stuff with automating their processes.
73 00:06:44.590 ⇒ 00:06:48.720 Casie Aviles: But before that the first, st
74 00:06:49.420 ⇒ 00:06:57.029 Casie Aviles: what do you call this? I guess the 1st thing I worked on here in Brainforge internally was the zoom thing. So if you’ve seen
75 00:06:57.785 ⇒ 00:07:02.689 Casie Aviles: the automations on slack, there are probably you and the
76 00:07:02.830 ⇒ 00:07:06.880 Casie Aviles: yeah, you’ll you will. You will see all these summaries there. That’s.
77 00:07:06.880 ⇒ 00:07:07.580 Sam Roberts: Totally.
78 00:07:09.370 ⇒ 00:07:15.340 Casie Aviles: Yeah, that’s the one I worked on, and also help build out the
79 00:07:16.110 ⇒ 00:07:20.089 Casie Aviles: the platform, the Zoom Platform that we have that we use internally.
80 00:07:20.983 ⇒ 00:07:23.529 Casie Aviles: But yeah, it was a combined effort
81 00:07:23.780 ⇒ 00:07:27.200 Casie Aviles: of the team. So we all worked on it. Miguel is like
82 00:07:27.460 ⇒ 00:07:32.040 Casie Aviles: more more of the the front end expert, I guess.
83 00:07:32.642 ⇒ 00:07:36.629 Casie Aviles: I’m yeah. That’s where he started. I mean, that was his background.
84 00:07:38.540 ⇒ 00:07:42.290 Casie Aviles: And yeah, Mustafa has been also very helpful with the AI side.
85 00:07:42.470 ⇒ 00:07:47.070 Casie Aviles: But yeah, we’re we’ve all kind of been working on it collaboratively.
86 00:07:49.466 ⇒ 00:07:52.560 Casie Aviles: yeah, yeah, I guess that’s like
87 00:07:53.760 ⇒ 00:07:57.399 Casie Aviles: what I, yeah, that’s the work I’ve been doing in general.
88 00:08:00.410 ⇒ 00:08:30.400 Sam Roberts: Great. Yeah, no, that definitely helps me, you know. Wrap my head around like I’ve been. I’ve been clicking around in in Github and a little bit on the platform and obviously slack. So I’m just trying to like, you know. See what’s there, and then wrap my head around it all and so that is definitely helpful to get in a sense of like, who’s been where and I’m sure I’m gonna you know, I’ve been kind of holding back a little bit and just spending slack with questions and stuff. But at some point you will probably be getting more questions from me about where things are. As I try to get things up and running like I I realize I try to get the
89 00:08:32.309 ⇒ 00:08:42.391 Sam Roberts: the platform running. And I didn’t have super base access yet, so I had to get that yesterday. So there’s lots of little things still still working out but I’m sure I’ll have more questions in the future.
90 00:08:42.820 ⇒ 00:08:45.539 Casie Aviles: Yeah, sure. Just feel free to ask.
91 00:08:45.710 ⇒ 00:09:00.867 Sam Roberts: Yeah, that’s exactly I did. I kind of didn’t want to be there like spamming stuff until I kind of got to know people a little bit better. But you know, it’s gonna happen. So. Yeah, I mean, I guess. Is there anything any questions you have for me? Anything I can help you with right now.
92 00:09:01.550 ⇒ 00:09:06.039 Sam Roberts: And you know I don’t. I’m not fully caught up on everything. But there’s stuff I can
93 00:09:06.290 ⇒ 00:09:08.699 Sam Roberts: help with feel free to ask.
94 00:09:09.590 ⇒ 00:09:13.110 Casie Aviles: Yeah, I don’t really have anything at the top of my.
95 00:09:13.110 ⇒ 00:09:15.290 Sam Roberts: Okay, right now. But it’s totally fine time.
96 00:09:15.614 ⇒ 00:09:20.810 Casie Aviles: It’s really. I guess it’s a good thing I’m excited that you’re here with us now.
97 00:09:21.750 ⇒ 00:09:22.330 Sam Roberts: Great.
98 00:09:23.020 ⇒ 00:09:30.045 Casie Aviles: Yeah, likely I’ll be asking help. For, like, you know, reviews, I guess, yeah.
99 00:09:31.800 ⇒ 00:09:33.020 Sam Roberts: That makes total sense.
100 00:09:33.282 ⇒ 00:09:44.590 Sam Roberts: Sounds good. Okay? Well, feel free to, you know. Ping me whenever. Yeah, I guess that I’m still getting caught up, but hopefully, I’ll be more helpful in the next week or 2 and like it all up and running
101 00:09:45.095 ⇒ 00:09:47.775 Sam Roberts: and yeah, it’s great to chat with you.
102 00:09:48.800 ⇒ 00:09:51.929 Sam Roberts: yeah, like I said anything else. Just let me know, and I’m sure you’ll hear from me.
103 00:09:52.750 ⇒ 00:09:54.220 Casie Aviles: Okay. Thank you. Sam.
104 00:09:54.440 ⇒ 00:09:56.009 Sam Roberts: Yeah, thanks, so much.
105 00:09:56.640 ⇒ 00:09:57.719 Casie Aviles: Have a nice day.
106 00:09:57.720 ⇒ 00:09:58.760 Sam Roberts: Yeah, you too.