Meeting Title: Brainforge Team Member Introduction Date: 2025-10-01 Meeting participants: Awaish Kumar, Justin Breshears
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1 00:03:49.150 ⇒ 00:03:50.620 Justin Breshears: Hey, OH.
2 00:03:53.060 ⇒ 00:03:54.290 Justin Breshears: How are you, sir?
3 00:03:55.190 ⇒ 00:03:56.660 Awaish Kumar: Hello? Can you hear me?
4 00:03:57.240 ⇒ 00:03:58.329 Justin Breshears: Yeah, can you hear me?
5 00:03:59.210 ⇒ 00:03:59.850 Awaish Kumar: Yes.
6 00:04:00.640 ⇒ 00:04:02.140 Justin Breshears: Hey, how are ya?
7 00:04:02.140 ⇒ 00:04:03.510 Awaish Kumar: I’m good, how about you?
8 00:04:04.680 ⇒ 00:04:07.569 Justin Breshears: Good, busy, all of the above.
9 00:04:10.260 ⇒ 00:04:13.269 Justin Breshears: I’m sure you know how that is, though.
10 00:04:13.590 ⇒ 00:04:15.319 Justin Breshears: A lot going on in Brainforge.
11 00:04:18.519 ⇒ 00:04:21.279 Justin Breshears: Well, cool. I don’t want to take up a ton of your time, but…
12 00:04:21.409 ⇒ 00:04:35.319 Justin Breshears: just, wanted to set up some time to chat, get to know you a little bit, because we hadn’t really gotten a chance to. I know we’ve been on calls and talking about work stuff, but, I like to at least say hi and get to know people before
13 00:04:35.319 ⇒ 00:04:42.409 Justin Breshears: you know, we can put in all the… all the weeds and everything, so… First off, I’ll start, like, where… where are you located?
14 00:04:44.030 ⇒ 00:04:45.539 Awaish Kumar: I’m in Pakistan.
15 00:04:46.150 ⇒ 00:04:47.270 Justin Breshears: Great, awesome.
16 00:04:47.740 ⇒ 00:04:48.359 Awaish Kumar: What about you?
17 00:04:48.360 ⇒ 00:04:50.430 Justin Breshears: What’s, what’s the time there?
18 00:04:50.570 ⇒ 00:04:52.610 Justin Breshears: What’s the time zone difference, I wonder?
19 00:04:52.760 ⇒ 00:04:57.019 Awaish Kumar: Oh, it’s… it’s… 9 hours difference width.
20 00:04:57.550 ⇒ 00:05:02.410 Awaish Kumar: 9 hour, ahead, from Eastern Time Zone.
21 00:05:02.770 ⇒ 00:05:05.660 Justin Breshears: Okay, okay, cool.
22 00:05:06.920 ⇒ 00:05:09.330 Awaish Kumar: 7.30 PM.
23 00:05:09.740 ⇒ 00:05:14.169 Justin Breshears: Okay, cool. So you’re kind of at the end of the day, and I’m at the start.
24 00:05:14.670 ⇒ 00:05:18.959 Justin Breshears: Awesome. Yeah, I’m in Texas, so I’m Central Time.
25 00:05:19.080 ⇒ 00:05:21.330 Justin Breshears: I’m actually not too far away from Muttown.
26 00:05:28.010 ⇒ 00:05:28.850 Justin Breshears: I’m sorry?
27 00:05:29.260 ⇒ 00:05:33.200 Awaish Kumar: I’m also working in, like, central time, right?
28 00:05:33.200 ⇒ 00:05:35.780 Justin Breshears: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we’re both in Central.
29 00:05:35.880 ⇒ 00:05:37.740 Justin Breshears: So it is 9.30 here.
30 00:05:38.070 ⇒ 00:05:40.230 Awaish Kumar: Okay, in the morning.
31 00:05:40.230 ⇒ 00:05:45.580 Justin Breshears: Yeah, yeah. So, a little bit different there. Well, cool. How long have you been with Brainforge?
32 00:05:46.970 ⇒ 00:05:49.979 Awaish Kumar: Almost, like, 10 months.
33 00:05:50.500 ⇒ 00:05:51.260 Justin Breshears: Nice.
34 00:05:51.540 ⇒ 00:05:52.929 Justin Breshears: Liking it so far?
35 00:05:54.310 ⇒ 00:05:56.130 Awaish Kumar: Yes, yes.
36 00:05:58.820 ⇒ 00:06:03.249 Awaish Kumar: How, how have been your experience coming into play?
37 00:06:03.250 ⇒ 00:06:20.469 Justin Breshears: Good. It’s been fast and furious. I mean, I’ve only been part-time for a few weeks, so… trying to fit a lot into a very little amount of time, but, you know, hopefully going on full-time, starting actually from today on, so… be able to jump… jump in full speed.
38 00:06:20.680 ⇒ 00:06:21.669 Justin Breshears: It’s been good.
39 00:06:22.290 ⇒ 00:06:27.419 Awaish Kumar: Okay, and what has… Where have you been working, like, before?
40 00:06:27.660 ⇒ 00:06:36.819 Justin Breshears: Yeah, before this, I was, at a company called Kalint. We were AWS partners, so did a lot of AWS work.
41 00:06:37.270 ⇒ 00:06:42.540 Justin Breshears: You know, specific, like, cloud migrations, and cloud app dev, and… .
42 00:06:42.540 ⇒ 00:06:43.070 Awaish Kumar: Is it even…
43 00:06:43.070 ⇒ 00:06:44.310 Justin Breshears: some data stuff.
44 00:06:44.690 ⇒ 00:06:45.510 Justin Breshears: Sorry?
45 00:06:45.750 ⇒ 00:06:48.220 Awaish Kumar: Was it… was that also a consultancy firm?
46 00:06:48.730 ⇒ 00:06:56.469 Justin Breshears: Yes, yes. So we were a consultancy that, was like a third party between AWS and their clients, so if somebody wants to
47 00:06:57.070 ⇒ 00:07:03.959 Justin Breshears: set up a GenAI chatbot on AWS’s, you know, systems, you know, we would help them out with that.
48 00:07:04.420 ⇒ 00:07:09.280 Awaish Kumar: It’s just different, take a stakeholder kind of service, but that’s…
49 00:07:09.280 ⇒ 00:07:10.030 Justin Breshears: Yeah.
50 00:07:10.030 ⇒ 00:07:10.930 Awaish Kumar: What is his name.
51 00:07:11.400 ⇒ 00:07:16.719 Justin Breshears: Yeah, it’s very similar to the type of stuff that Brainforge does, just, yeah, in a specific context.
52 00:07:17.360 ⇒ 00:07:28.640 Awaish Kumar: I think now we are also providing services like chatbot, right? It’s just that it’s now… Brainforge is maybe using different tool stack than their mode.
53 00:07:29.010 ⇒ 00:07:29.780 Awaish Kumar: Yep.
54 00:07:29.780 ⇒ 00:07:42.119 Justin Breshears: Exactly, exactly. So, yeah. I have, experience with a lot of the same type of stuff. Kayla was a little bit, larger than Brainforge, so, Hutan brought me on really as, like.
55 00:07:42.160 ⇒ 00:07:54.329 Justin Breshears: kind of to get us from here to there, right? Like, so, we’re a lot smaller, and so, you know, trying to figure out how to scale and how to grow, you know, from where we’re at to…
56 00:07:54.390 ⇒ 00:07:56.500 Justin Breshears: You know, double, triple where we’re at.
57 00:07:58.410 ⇒ 00:07:59.540 Awaish Kumar: Okay, yeah.
58 00:08:00.040 ⇒ 00:08:01.700 Justin Breshears: So that’s my… my focus.
59 00:08:02.600 ⇒ 00:08:10.260 Justin Breshears: I, just a little bit more about me, I have a wife and 2 kids, I got a 2-year-old and a 6-month-old.
60 00:08:10.380 ⇒ 00:08:17.150 Justin Breshears: The 2-year-old’s a girl, and 6 months old is a boy, so my life is chaotic, and…
61 00:08:17.430 ⇒ 00:08:21.800 Justin Breshears: Not a lot of sleep in it. What about you? Do you have a family?
62 00:08:23.330 ⇒ 00:08:25.310 Awaish Kumar: A wife and our daughter.
63 00:08:25.660 ⇒ 00:08:26.580 Awaish Kumar: Awesome.
64 00:08:26.800 ⇒ 00:08:30.329 Awaish Kumar: We just started going to, like, kind of a play crew.
65 00:08:34.080 ⇒ 00:08:36.639 Awaish Kumar: No, so, like, she’s also very…
66 00:08:38.440 ⇒ 00:08:45.370 Awaish Kumar: like, the… like, I understand what your feelings are of not getting complete sleep.
67 00:08:45.370 ⇒ 00:08:46.660 Justin Breshears: Yeah.
68 00:08:46.830 ⇒ 00:08:50.300 Justin Breshears: Yeah, anybody with a young child definitely gets that.
69 00:08:50.930 ⇒ 00:08:53.880 Awaish Kumar: Before that, like, Yeah, it was…
70 00:08:55.050 ⇒ 00:09:00.780 Awaish Kumar: kind of difficult in Canada, where I was working in daytime, and then I couldn’t sleep at night.
71 00:09:01.210 ⇒ 00:09:05.260 Awaish Kumar: Here, like, I’m already awake in the nights, mostly.
72 00:09:07.590 ⇒ 00:09:08.100 Awaish Kumar: It’s okay.
73 00:09:08.100 ⇒ 00:09:13.700 Justin Breshears: Yeah, I mean, I guess that’s an advantage when you have kids that don’t sleep well at night, you’re like, oh, I’m already up.
74 00:09:15.590 ⇒ 00:09:16.470 Justin Breshears: It’s cool.
75 00:09:17.590 ⇒ 00:09:26.869 Justin Breshears: But yeah, like I said, I don’t want to take up the 10 of your time, just wanted to chat and say hello, so, it’s nice to get to know you a little bit more. I’m excited to keep working with you.
76 00:09:27.360 ⇒ 00:09:28.430 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, true.
77 00:09:29.010 ⇒ 00:09:33.060 Awaish Kumar: Mike, what do you like, apart from… Well.
78 00:09:33.060 ⇒ 00:09:46.900 Justin Breshears: Oh, man. I feel like, because of the work we do, it’s like sitting at a desk in front of a computer screen all day. Like, what I like to do outside of work is mostly just be outside. Like, I gotta do the exact opposite of what we do, right? So I like to hold.
79 00:09:47.160 ⇒ 00:09:52.199 Justin Breshears: Running, play sports, you know, just spend time outside. What about you?
80 00:09:52.560 ⇒ 00:09:53.619 Awaish Kumar: What did you play?
81 00:09:54.390 ⇒ 00:10:00.339 Justin Breshears: Right now, it’s a lot of, like, pickleball and golf, because those are…
82 00:10:00.750 ⇒ 00:10:02.880 Awaish Kumar: A little bit, less…
83 00:10:03.240 ⇒ 00:10:10.149 Justin Breshears: strenuous activities, because I grew up playing, like, football, and soccer, and basketball, and all those, and…
84 00:10:10.340 ⇒ 00:10:14.570 Justin Breshears: I don’t know, I’m getting old now. I feel like I can’t do all those things anymore.
85 00:10:15.410 ⇒ 00:10:20.099 Awaish Kumar: You wanna go play with Trump?
86 00:10:21.000 ⇒ 00:10:21.560 Awaish Kumar: What’s up?
87 00:10:22.490 ⇒ 00:10:25.040 Awaish Kumar: You wanna go with playing golf with Trump?
88 00:10:25.330 ⇒ 00:10:29.500 Justin Breshears: Oh, gosh, no. I’ll pass on that.
89 00:10:30.510 ⇒ 00:10:32.290 Justin Breshears: What about you? What do you like to do?
90 00:10:33.320 ⇒ 00:10:39.290 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, we see a lot of, like, when I see news, like, he’s almost in the gulf.
91 00:10:39.290 ⇒ 00:10:43.459 Justin Breshears: Yeah, I know, it’s crazy. Spends way too much time doing that.
92 00:10:43.460 ⇒ 00:10:44.490 Awaish Kumar: 14.
93 00:10:44.920 ⇒ 00:10:48.630 Awaish Kumar: What I… I like walking. I go to…
94 00:10:48.890 ⇒ 00:10:52.100 Awaish Kumar: whenever I get time, I go for a walk.
95 00:10:52.210 ⇒ 00:10:57.579 Awaish Kumar: I… like, where I’m right now, I don’t have much of the…
96 00:10:57.850 ⇒ 00:11:14.600 Awaish Kumar: opportunity to explore, like, it’s a very urban city, right? So everywhere there’s just buildings and that. But when I was in Copenhagen before that, I liked to explore, like, different routes, different tracks, and I just go vogue.
97 00:11:15.120 ⇒ 00:11:15.870 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
98 00:11:15.870 ⇒ 00:11:16.710 Justin Breshears: That’s awesome.
99 00:11:16.950 ⇒ 00:11:19.760 Awaish Kumar: I like that a lot.
100 00:11:20.490 ⇒ 00:11:25.379 Awaish Kumar: And Apart from that, like, mostly I just,
101 00:11:26.830 ⇒ 00:11:30.420 Awaish Kumar: Like, maybe watch some movie, or…
102 00:11:30.700 ⇒ 00:11:39.400 Awaish Kumar: I used to play table tennis sometime… some time ago, but I know I don’t get that opportunity.
103 00:11:41.320 ⇒ 00:11:48.369 Justin Breshears: Yeah, that’s awesome. Similar. Just being outside is, is nice after being in front of the computer, for sure.
104 00:11:48.880 ⇒ 00:11:52.920 Awaish Kumar: What city are you in in Pakistan? Krachi.
105 00:11:52.920 ⇒ 00:11:53.480 Justin Breshears: Okay.
106 00:11:54.070 ⇒ 00:12:00.650 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, that’s a disadvantage. Like, our capital, like, Schlumberg, that’s…
107 00:12:01.890 ⇒ 00:12:06.610 Awaish Kumar: much safer, and, like, very beautiful, like I said. It’s a city in…
108 00:12:06.750 ⇒ 00:12:11.559 Awaish Kumar: In the middle of mountains, so you can go hiking. Basically, there are a lot of treks.
109 00:12:12.020 ⇒ 00:12:15.750 Awaish Kumar: Here, it’s… it’s not, like, it’s just ground, and the bed.
110 00:12:15.750 ⇒ 00:12:16.250 Justin Breshears: that.
111 00:12:16.840 ⇒ 00:12:18.060 Awaish Kumar: And the traffic.
112 00:12:19.840 ⇒ 00:12:24.129 Justin Breshears: Sounds like where I live. Very flat, lots of traffic.
113 00:12:24.930 ⇒ 00:12:26.540 Justin Breshears: So I get that.
114 00:12:26.770 ⇒ 00:12:27.610 Justin Breshears: Okay, cool.
115 00:12:28.910 ⇒ 00:12:40.679 Justin Breshears: Okay. Well, man, I’ll let you get back to it. I got a bunch of meetings back-to-back coming up, take a little break, but, yeah, let’s keep, you know, in touch and keep working closely together on this stuff.
116 00:12:40.680 ⇒ 00:12:41.940 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, sure.
117 00:12:42.070 ⇒ 00:12:42.690 Awaish Kumar: No way.
118 00:12:42.690 ⇒ 00:12:45.000 Justin Breshears: Alright. Have a good one, sir.
119 00:12:45.460 ⇒ 00:12:46.779 Awaish Kumar: You too? Bye.