Meeting Title: Brainforge Team Intro and AWS Issue Date: 2025-07-30 Meeting participants: Casie Aviles, Vashdev Heerani
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1 00:00:12.040 ⇒ 00:00:13.100 Vashdev Heerani: Hello!
2 00:00:16.820 ⇒ 00:00:18.110 Casie Aviles: Hey! Vastav!
3 00:00:19.330 ⇒ 00:00:20.300 Casie Aviles: How are you?
4 00:00:20.860 ⇒ 00:00:22.249 Vashdev Heerani: I’m good. How are you?
5 00:00:22.640 ⇒ 00:00:28.760 Casie Aviles: Okay, let me turn my screen on. Yeah, yeah. Doing good.
6 00:00:30.100 ⇒ 00:00:32.989 Casie Aviles: Yeah. I know that this is our intro.
7 00:00:33.350 ⇒ 00:00:34.290 Vashdev Heerani: But.
8 00:00:34.730 ⇒ 00:00:40.660 Casie Aviles: But yeah, if that’s fine, we can also use some of the time to resolve.
9 00:00:41.560 ⇒ 00:00:44.210 Casie Aviles: So so how do you? How do you want to start.
10 00:00:46.440 ⇒ 00:00:51.299 Vashdev Heerani: So first, st we will start with the intro, then we will resolve the issue.
11 00:00:51.740 ⇒ 00:00:52.930 Casie Aviles: Okay, sure. Sure.
12 00:00:54.370 ⇒ 00:00:56.500 Casie Aviles: Do you want to go? Or I? I can start.
13 00:00:56.680 ⇒ 00:00:58.050 Vashdev Heerani: Eugenista.
14 00:00:58.630 ⇒ 00:01:02.391 Casie Aviles: Okay, so just to give an intro about myself.
15 00:01:02.950 ⇒ 00:01:07.260 Casie Aviles: yeah, I’m the AI and automation engineer at Brainforge.
16 00:01:07.510 ⇒ 00:01:08.300 Vashdev Heerani: Yeah.
17 00:01:08.950 ⇒ 00:01:13.640 Casie Aviles: I’m yeah. I’m I’m relatively early in my career. I’ve started.
18 00:01:13.780 ⇒ 00:01:19.370 Casie Aviles: I joined Utam, I think, last year. I believe November of last year.
19 00:01:19.670 ⇒ 00:01:20.760 Vashdev Heerani: And be.
20 00:01:21.120 ⇒ 00:01:26.370 Casie Aviles: So, and before that I was working at my 1st job as a
21 00:01:27.110 ⇒ 00:01:31.570 Casie Aviles: like a prompt prompting for Chatbots AI, Chatbots.
22 00:01:32.770 ⇒ 00:01:41.000 Casie Aviles: Yeah. And yeah, so I think I’ve been working for a total of over a year for yeah.
23 00:01:41.450 ⇒ 00:01:48.089 Casie Aviles: And yeah, I got into AI from that. And I, I have like a computer science background. So
24 00:01:48.620 ⇒ 00:01:50.429 Casie Aviles: that’s how I got into AI,
25 00:01:51.210 ⇒ 00:01:53.129 Casie Aviles: and yeah, so far, it’s just been
26 00:01:54.330 ⇒ 00:01:56.719 Casie Aviles: good here at Brainforge. I feel like
27 00:01:57.090 ⇒ 00:02:02.789 Casie Aviles: I’m learning a lot. A lot of this technology, especially AI is very new.
28 00:02:03.190 ⇒ 00:02:05.320 Vashdev Heerani: And very fast moving, so.
29 00:02:05.650 ⇒ 00:02:09.050 Casie Aviles: It’s a good thing that I’m able to learn a lot.
30 00:02:10.874 ⇒ 00:02:14.510 Casie Aviles: But yeah, I guess that’s all about me.
31 00:02:15.780 ⇒ 00:02:17.229 Vashdev Heerani: Okay, thank you.
32 00:02:17.810 ⇒ 00:02:23.590 Vashdev Heerani: So I did graduation back in 2,017.
33 00:02:24.200 ⇒ 00:02:31.850 Vashdev Heerani: Then I started writing as I started writing store procedure for the the SQL.
34 00:02:32.150 ⇒ 00:02:55.779 Vashdev Heerani: Then started working as a back end engineer when I used to write Uhnet code for the back end. And then I moved myself to data science. Somehow, I started working as a python developer where I used to write machine learning codes
35 00:02:56.474 ⇒ 00:02:58.570 Vashdev Heerani: for for data science.
36 00:02:58.970 ⇒ 00:03:12.829 Vashdev Heerani: And then back in 2,019, I started working as a data engineer where I used to write initially hadoop scripts. Then we moved our system from hadoop to spark
37 00:03:13.030 ⇒ 00:03:15.330 Vashdev Heerani: snowflake as well.
38 00:03:16.059 ⇒ 00:03:28.999 Vashdev Heerani: And then I started working on database and after that last year I started working bash script kind of legacy system where I used to.
39 00:03:29.630 ⇒ 00:03:34.330 Vashdev Heerani: Who write informatica kind of stuff.
40 00:03:37.160 ⇒ 00:03:41.399 Casie Aviles: Nice. Yeah, I think that’s that’s a pretty impressive like.
41 00:03:43.090 ⇒ 00:03:47.349 Casie Aviles: background. I think. Yeah, that’s pretty cool that you’re also able to
42 00:03:48.010 ⇒ 00:03:50.700 Casie Aviles: like. You also dabbled in machine learning right?
43 00:03:50.960 ⇒ 00:03:57.460 Vashdev Heerani: Yes, last year I got the admission master admission in in data science.
44 00:03:57.610 ⇒ 00:04:05.040 Vashdev Heerani: So right now, I’m learning Llm. Kind of stuff. Nlp. Llms. And
45 00:04:05.670 ⇒ 00:04:08.419 Vashdev Heerani: and there are some related stuff. Yes.
46 00:04:08.930 ⇒ 00:04:10.202 Casie Aviles: Yeah, that’s pretty cool.
47 00:04:10.520 ⇒ 00:04:11.350 Vashdev Heerani: Hmm.
48 00:04:11.350 ⇒ 00:04:17.170 Casie Aviles: Yeah, I guess. Well, yeah. Welcome again to the team. And
49 00:04:17.680 ⇒ 00:04:33.499 Casie Aviles: yeah, I think, I’ll be like as Utah as I think, asked also, like I I might be. I might ask also for a couple of reviews like in the future. I think. Yeah, because I’m still pretty junior in my
50 00:04:33.700 ⇒ 00:04:34.720 Casie Aviles: at the moment.
51 00:04:34.830 ⇒ 00:04:39.349 Casie Aviles: But yeah, given given your experience. And like, I’m I’m excited to also learn from you, like.
52 00:04:40.410 ⇒ 00:04:45.139 Casie Aviles: yeah, I think your your background is yeah, something that
53 00:04:46.704 ⇒ 00:04:49.710 Casie Aviles: yeah, would be great, as like a like, a
54 00:04:50.390 ⇒ 00:04:53.299 Casie Aviles: like, a mentor figure or something. But yeah.
55 00:04:54.610 ⇒ 00:04:56.569 Casie Aviles: yeah, yeah, sure. I think.
56 00:04:56.770 ⇒ 00:05:01.599 Casie Aviles: Yeah, that’s pretty much it, I guess. Do you have any questions for me or.
57 00:05:02.280 ⇒ 00:05:06.450 Vashdev Heerani: Right now. No, I don’t have any cause. Other person.
58 00:05:07.400 ⇒ 00:05:08.390 Casie Aviles: Alright cool.
59 00:05:09.293 ⇒ 00:05:12.929 Casie Aviles: Yeah, I don’t have any other questions as well. So I think.
60 00:05:13.480 ⇒ 00:05:19.619 Casie Aviles: okay, so that I guess we could hop into the Aws issue right?
61 00:05:21.260 ⇒ 00:05:21.720 Casie Aviles: Okay.
62 00:05:22.780 ⇒ 00:05:30.919 Casie Aviles: how do you resolve this? Would it be fine if you shared your screen? And I can take a look at what seems to be the problem.
63 00:05:32.130 ⇒ 00:05:32.820 Vashdev Heerani: Okay.
64 00:05:43.860 ⇒ 00:05:45.400 Vashdev Heerani: can you see my screen.
65 00:05:47.291 ⇒ 00:05:48.599 Casie Aviles: No, not yet, not yet.
66 00:05:50.940 ⇒ 00:05:53.710 Casie Aviles: Okay. I think it’s loading. Let me
67 00:05:58.480 ⇒ 00:06:01.530 Casie Aviles: okay. I can see your screen now.
68 00:06:08.600 ⇒ 00:06:12.580 Vashdev Heerani: So when I try to log in, I got this screen.
69 00:06:13.640 ⇒ 00:06:14.400 Casie Aviles: Okay?
70 00:06:15.570 ⇒ 00:06:21.000 Casie Aviles: And I think you have to go to Brain Forge. Can you? Can you click this one? Yeah. Brain forge.
71 00:06:21.856 ⇒ 00:06:22.590 Vashdev Heerani: This one.
72 00:06:23.290 ⇒ 00:06:24.230 Casie Aviles: Yeah, yeah.
73 00:06:24.650 ⇒ 00:06:26.710 Casie Aviles: And administrator access.
74 00:06:27.250 ⇒ 00:06:27.930 Casie Aviles: Okay?
75 00:06:37.660 ⇒ 00:06:43.679 Casie Aviles: Okay, I think they should get you into the okay. Nice. You’re here. Now.
76 00:06:44.220 ⇒ 00:06:45.459 Vashdev Heerani: Okay, got it?
77 00:06:46.510 ⇒ 00:06:52.549 Casie Aviles: Okay, can you try going to our like bucket? I I want to see if you have access to our bucket.
78 00:06:55.001 ⇒ 00:06:57.490 Casie Aviles: I think that’s s, 3, yeah. S. 3.
79 00:07:01.600 ⇒ 00:07:08.199 Casie Aviles: Wait I. I can just send you the the link also. Wait. Where did I send that earlier?
80 00:07:14.130 ⇒ 00:07:14.500 Vashdev Heerani: It did.
81 00:07:14.500 ⇒ 00:07:14.880 Casie Aviles: All right.
82 00:07:15.280 ⇒ 00:07:17.740 Vashdev Heerani: Did you? Did you send me a link.
83 00:07:19.510 ⇒ 00:07:23.600 Casie Aviles: Yes, yes, I just sent it on slack right now.
84 00:07:28.160 ⇒ 00:07:33.279 Casie Aviles: Oh, I think, yeah, you have. You have. Yeah, you can see it now. Right ABC api storage.
85 00:07:34.040 ⇒ 00:07:34.400 Vashdev Heerani: I think.
86 00:07:34.400 ⇒ 00:07:35.470 Casie Aviles: This is where you’ll.
87 00:07:41.630 ⇒ 00:07:48.930 Vashdev Heerani: So inic. Initially, I I was not able to click on this this kind of so I I got the access from here.
88 00:07:51.010 ⇒ 00:08:03.680 Vashdev Heerani: But I was not able to click on this link. I don’t know why either it was, for I had to refresh it or not, or anything else I had to do.
89 00:08:03.810 ⇒ 00:08:07.800 Vashdev Heerani: Okay. So now I got access to the S. 3 s.
90 00:08:08.410 ⇒ 00:08:11.639 Casie Aviles: Yes, yes, I think you you should be. This should be good now.
91 00:08:23.910 ⇒ 00:08:26.820 Vashdev Heerani: okay, so thank you for that.
92 00:08:27.570 ⇒ 00:08:28.640 Casie Aviles: Sure. Sure.
93 00:08:30.010 ⇒ 00:08:34.530 Casie Aviles: Okay. So is there anything else like any other access issues that you have or.
94 00:08:35.692 ⇒ 00:08:40.040 Vashdev Heerani: Nope, I don’t think so. I have access to Snowflake as well.
95 00:08:40.610 ⇒ 00:08:41.100 Vashdev Heerani: Real right?
96 00:08:41.600 ⇒ 00:08:43.699 Vashdev Heerani: Yes, until as well.
97 00:08:44.179 ⇒ 00:08:45.509 Casie Aviles: Okay. Nice, nice.
98 00:08:52.329 ⇒ 00:08:59.749 Casie Aviles: Alright, I think. Yeah, I guess that’s it. Yeah. Again. Welcome to have you. It’s nice to have you
99 00:09:00.579 ⇒ 00:09:06.219 Casie Aviles: looking forward to who working with you more. And yeah, and also learning from you.
100 00:09:06.856 ⇒ 00:09:08.789 Casie Aviles: yeah, that would be all for today.
101 00:09:09.070 ⇒ 00:09:12.939 Casie Aviles: Yeah. Likewise, I’m also excited to working with you guys.
102 00:09:13.270 ⇒ 00:09:34.899 Vashdev Heerani: Like you. You are very energetic team. Everyone has a multiple project. And so initially, for last 5 years, I guess 5 and 5 or 5 and a half years I was working on the single project. So it it was enterprise applications. We had a
103 00:09:35.404 ⇒ 00:09:47.529 Vashdev Heerani: we we had to process Tvs of the data on the daily daily basis. But the project. But the project was a single project. So I I had to
104 00:09:47.660 ⇒ 00:09:48.420 Vashdev Heerani: keep the focus.
105 00:09:48.420 ⇒ 00:09:48.910 Casie Aviles: Yeah.
106 00:09:48.910 ⇒ 00:10:07.250 Vashdev Heerani: I return every time on the single project. But here we have a multiple request from the multiple client as well as we have a request from the internal. So it’s very energetic team. And we I I will have to learn a lot of from you guys.
107 00:10:07.780 ⇒ 00:10:15.130 Casie Aviles: Yeah, yeah, nice to hear? Yeah, it’s like, it can be like both a crazy thing, because there’s so much going on. There’s so much happening.
108 00:10:15.340 ⇒ 00:10:21.469 Casie Aviles: But also it’s it’s not. It can also be good. Because, yeah, like you said, it’s energetic.
109 00:10:22.060 ⇒ 00:10:23.329 Vashdev Heerani: But yes.
110 00:10:23.900 ⇒ 00:10:30.780 Casie Aviles: But yeah, I guess. If you have any questions for for me. Yeah, just feel free to message me on slack
111 00:10:31.260 ⇒ 00:10:37.160 Casie Aviles: Likewise if I if I if I need anything, I will also ask you for like.
112 00:10:37.160 ⇒ 00:10:37.600 Vashdev Heerani: Sure.
113 00:10:37.600 ⇒ 00:10:46.520 Casie Aviles: Data data stuff if I need any help there. Alright. Yeah. That should be all. Thank you. And goodbye.
114 00:10:46.930 ⇒ 00:10:47.680 Vashdev Heerani: Goodbye!