Meeting Title: Uttam <> Agustin Date: 2024-06-10 Meeting participants: Agustin, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:06:21.590 ⇒ 00:06:23.439 Agustin: Hey? Utan good morning!
2 00:06:25.230 ⇒ 00:06:26.755 Uttam Kumaran: Augustine, sorry for the delay.
3 00:06:27.790 ⇒ 00:06:31.640 Agustin: No problem. I’m waiting here finishing
4 00:06:31.770 ⇒ 00:06:33.849 Agustin: these units. Integration.
5 00:06:34.630 ⇒ 00:06:35.090 Uttam Kumaran: Nice
6 00:06:36.378 ⇒ 00:06:40.495 Uttam Kumaran: great! I guess we’ll just jump, jump right into stuff.
7 00:06:41.950 ⇒ 00:06:46.840 Uttam Kumaran: yeah. The the big thing is that asset link is slowing down.
8 00:06:48.060 ⇒ 00:06:49.130 Uttam Kumaran: So
9 00:06:50.360 ⇒ 00:06:52.600 Uttam Kumaran: couple of like broader
10 00:06:53.100 ⇒ 00:06:59.999 Uttam Kumaran: changes. One is I. Wanna my goal is to get everybody, you know, hopefully, closer to
11 00:07:00.610 ⇒ 00:07:04.709 Uttam Kumaran: full time or as close to full time hours as possible, you know. That’s kind of what I
12 00:07:04.850 ⇒ 00:07:13.530 Uttam Kumaran: what I mentioned when we 1st started working together. And I’m I’m definitely trying my best.
13 00:07:13.530 ⇒ 00:07:14.590 Agustin: How many hours
14 00:07:14.620 ⇒ 00:07:15.700 Agustin: did you say?
15 00:07:16.418 ⇒ 00:07:20.560 Uttam Kumaran: No, I wanted to get you to be working like full time hours.
16 00:07:21.130 ⇒ 00:07:24.769 Uttam Kumaran: I remember. That’s what we kind of were going for initially.
17 00:07:25.421 ⇒ 00:07:29.510 Uttam Kumaran: That being said like, it’s really contingent on
18 00:07:29.560 ⇒ 00:07:31.689 Uttam Kumaran: the clients and the type of work.
19 00:07:32.048 ⇒ 00:07:39.840 Uttam Kumaran: As well as like my ability to go do sales which you know, bringing Nico on has really been helping with that. So
20 00:07:40.470 ⇒ 00:07:52.540 Uttam Kumaran: a a. At the moment it may slow down to just primarily work for pool parts when there’s new integration needs but I hope that by the end of this month we have another
21 00:07:53.282 ⇒ 00:07:55.517 Uttam Kumaran: client onboarded that will kind of
22 00:07:56.470 ⇒ 00:07:58.279 Uttam Kumaran: begin to onboard you on
23 00:07:58.923 ⇒ 00:08:05.970 Uttam Kumaran: a couple of other, I guess, like I’ll pause there if you have any questions about asset, link, or anything like that in particular.
24 00:08:06.040 ⇒ 00:08:07.410 Agustin: Not really.
25 00:08:07.410 ⇒ 00:08:12.750 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool. So for the next few weeks, you know, it may, it may be like
26 00:08:13.170 ⇒ 00:08:18.380 Uttam Kumaran: it may be close to 10 h or less. It’s kinda gonna depend. But what we’re doing is we’re getting better at
27 00:08:18.410 ⇒ 00:08:20.970 Uttam Kumaran: scoping out work for the month.
28 00:08:21.170 ⇒ 00:08:30.146 Uttam Kumaran: So we should have a little bit more understanding of like backlog and things like that for you. But again, my goal is to get us another client by the end of the month.
29 00:08:30.530 ⇒ 00:08:37.760 Uttam Kumaran: so can begin working on. That second thing is we’re working on a bit of a structure. And I’m gonna talk
30 00:08:37.970 ⇒ 00:08:40.170 Uttam Kumaran: a little bit about that
31 00:08:40.970 ⇒ 00:08:42.790 Uttam Kumaran: During the team meeting today.
32 00:08:43.343 ⇒ 00:08:46.029 Uttam Kumaran: I’m we’re working on a structure for
33 00:08:47.980 ⇒ 00:08:49.210 Uttam Kumaran: for
34 00:08:49.970 ⇒ 00:08:51.569 Uttam Kumaran: basically the
35 00:08:51.930 ⇒ 00:08:56.993 Uttam Kumaran: basically the way that every single person lands in terms of like a role at the
36 00:08:58.170 ⇒ 00:08:59.200 Uttam Kumaran: at the
37 00:09:00.640 ⇒ 00:09:06.020 Uttam Kumaran: at the company, and basically kind of dividing everybody between data, engineering.
38 00:09:06.110 ⇒ 00:09:09.140 Uttam Kumaran: analytics, engineering and
39 00:09:09.876 ⇒ 00:09:11.130 Uttam Kumaran: analyst work
40 00:09:11.260 ⇒ 00:09:20.610 Uttam Kumaran: and then also dividing at dividing roles between senior and junior across each. So what I what what that kind of means is one.
41 00:09:20.670 ⇒ 00:09:39.289 Uttam Kumaran: you know, at every single client we want assigned you know, senior people to begin to work and begin to deliver a ton of value for anyone on the team that’s junior also is, gonna have an opportunity to work and shadow the people that are senior, but then also begin to like, level up and get their skill set
42 00:09:39.595 ⇒ 00:09:45.104 Uttam Kumaran: higher. And then again, as we kind of get more clients, we have a process by which we assign people.
43 00:09:45.530 ⇒ 00:10:00.180 Uttam Kumaran: I think you probably know at the beginning. We’re. It’s kind of just like wherever there’s work needed. We can kind of assign people. But now that we we have a lot of redundancy among people. It’s allowed me to kind of think through what the best structure is gonna be
44 00:10:01.590 ⇒ 00:10:06.490 Uttam Kumaran: So basically, what I’ll be presenting on this afternoon is
45 00:10:07.300 ⇒ 00:10:11.860 Uttam Kumaran: like where everybody sits and kind of like how we’re going to divide up
46 00:10:12.432 ⇒ 00:10:23.069 Uttam Kumaran: everybody between Senior and Junior roles. And then how senior and junior data engineers, analysts and analytics, engineers kind of get assigned.
47 00:10:24.610 ⇒ 00:10:34.719 Uttam Kumaran: so that’s that’s the basic like, one of the bigger changes that’s coming. And I. And again, ideally, what that does is, it helps us be more predictive with
48 00:10:35.236 ⇒ 00:10:39.400 Uttam Kumaran: what clients need and make sure we have bandwidth for that.
49 00:10:39.490 ⇒ 00:10:45.160 Uttam Kumaran: At the same time. It allows us to also bring on people wherever they are in their stage, and then
50 00:10:45.260 ⇒ 00:10:52.460 Uttam Kumaran: kind of level them up both like on the technical side, but also on like the project management communication side.
51 00:10:54.550 ⇒ 00:10:56.969 Uttam Kumaran: so yeah, I’ll pause there if you have any questions.
52 00:10:59.030 ⇒ 00:11:01.059 Agustin: Okay, yes. I understand
53 00:11:01.160 ⇒ 00:11:03.859 Agustin: what the goal? Yeah, to have like.
54 00:11:04.160 ⇒ 00:11:07.280 Agustin: And people that has expertise on what
55 00:11:07.520 ⇒ 00:11:09.460 Agustin: being needed from the client.
56 00:11:11.670 ⇒ 00:11:24.020 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And so I think that’s those are the kind of the the big things. So for this week, and then maybe until I kind of get back to you. I mean the I think the the core needs will be primarily from
57 00:11:24.110 ⇒ 00:11:30.460 Uttam Kumaran: pool parts. But again, we’ll talk and understand. What work needs to be getting assigned.
58 00:11:30.540 ⇒ 00:11:36.409 Uttam Kumaran: There’s 1 more engineer that’s coming on board on the analytics engineering side to kind of take over my workflow
59 00:11:37.233 ⇒ 00:11:38.560 Uttam Kumaran: and so
60 00:11:38.570 ⇒ 00:11:45.979 Uttam Kumaran: he’ll be coming on, and then it’ll primarily be him and Jacob on that account kind of working.
61 00:11:46.070 ⇒ 00:11:47.210 Uttam Kumaran: And then
62 00:11:47.570 ⇒ 00:11:53.260 Uttam Kumaran: there’s 1 more account that we’re working on. And then I’m kind of going to be focusing on sales for this next few weeks. So
63 00:11:55.420 ⇒ 00:11:56.550 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, that’s like.
64 00:11:56.880 ⇒ 00:11:58.789 Agustin: Yeah. One new client.
65 00:11:59.590 ⇒ 00:12:07.469 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, there. So we currently, we currently have 2 clients. And then, there’s just there’s a couple of more in the pipeline that I’m hoping to close this month
66 00:12:07.900 ⇒ 00:12:10.959 Uttam Kumaran: that again, once we have close, and once we have us.
67 00:12:11.220 ⇒ 00:12:15.350 Uttam Kumaran: you know, like a little bit of a understanding of like what the needs are.
68 00:12:15.440 ⇒ 00:12:17.270 Uttam Kumaran: There’ll be some work coming your way.
69 00:12:19.080 ⇒ 00:12:22.219 Agustin: Okay, that’s great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got it.
70 00:12:22.830 ⇒ 00:12:25.319 Uttam Kumaran: I appreciate like, I know, we’re kind of going through this like.
71 00:12:25.440 ⇒ 00:12:27.807 Uttam Kumaran: There may be a slow month this month, but
72 00:12:28.940 ⇒ 00:12:31.409 Agustin: Yeah, no, no issues in like
73 00:12:31.490 ⇒ 00:12:35.870 Agustin: working few hours per week, maybe 10, or I don’t know. Maybe
74 00:12:36.220 ⇒ 00:12:38.109 Agustin: 6. I’m not sure.
75 00:12:38.110 ⇒ 00:12:43.030 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think it’s I think we’re gonna try. And we’re gonna try and scope out the work for the rest of the month.
76 00:12:43.628 ⇒ 00:12:51.710 Uttam Kumaran: And we’re having a meeting with with the clients today to kind of understand what the rest of the work is. But yeah, maybe closer to 10 or less.
77 00:12:52.111 ⇒ 00:12:58.348 Uttam Kumaran: But we’ll see. There may be some stuff around documentation. There may be some other work, so gonna try to scope it out.
78 00:12:58.830 ⇒ 00:13:00.000 Agustin: Hey? That’s right.
79 00:13:01.046 ⇒ 00:13:11.740 Agustin: Yeah, from my side. I don’t have much to say other than what I like doing. That, you probably know, is like doing this kind of integrations in the snowflake.
80 00:13:11.990 ⇒ 00:13:14.859 Agustin: which are kind of smooth right now for me.
81 00:13:15.130 ⇒ 00:13:19.129 Agustin: And then all the aw us infrastructure.
82 00:13:19.130 ⇒ 00:13:19.820 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
83 00:13:20.190 ⇒ 00:13:23.559 Agustin: Yeah, yeah, I like both those things.
84 00:13:24.172 ⇒ 00:13:25.289 Agustin: Not close to
85 00:13:25.300 ⇒ 00:13:29.290 Agustin: doing analytics, engineering or working with Dvt.
86 00:13:29.570 ⇒ 00:13:31.750 Agustin: but yeah, that’s what I like. Most.
87 00:13:33.120 ⇒ 00:13:34.320 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, awesome.
88 00:13:35.809 ⇒ 00:13:44.910 Uttam Kumaran: I mean. So the the thing that the main thing I wanna do is like one. I wanna have a path by which everybody can kind of level up. And, for example, a lot of the work that
89 00:13:45.270 ⇒ 00:13:59.790 Uttam Kumaran: you know, on the data engineering side, we really just have, like me, you and Patrick. And so I wanna make sure that the work that you’re doing Patrick has understanding. I wanna make sure the work that Patrick’s doing you have an understanding of. But then also, I wanna make sure everybody is leveled up on like
90 00:13:59.960 ⇒ 00:14:04.670 Uttam Kumaran: how we’re doing project management communicating with people also training other people.
91 00:14:04.750 ⇒ 00:14:13.179 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s the thing that like, I want to make sure that if a brain forge, everybody’s kind of gets has the ability to kind of level up to more senior level.
92 00:14:13.550 ⇒ 00:14:20.229 Uttam Kumaran: And you know that that includes responsibility that includes pay like, and making sure that people can.
93 00:14:20.529 ⇒ 00:14:28.090 Uttam Kumaran: You know, take care of the work, and and more efficiently. And so I think there’s we have a wide array of experiences. So that’s the thing we’ll be settling on is like
94 00:14:28.210 ⇒ 00:14:30.035 Uttam Kumaran: what that role is, and
95 00:14:31.000 ⇒ 00:14:36.310 Uttam Kumaran: and how to you know. Make sure everybody’s like level up there. So.
96 00:14:37.410 ⇒ 00:14:38.120 Agustin: Great.
97 00:14:38.600 ⇒ 00:14:40.500 Agustin: Okay, understood.
98 00:14:40.780 ⇒ 00:14:47.180 Agustin: Sorry if I ask too many times about the payment this month, because while my finances are a bit tight.
99 00:14:47.280 ⇒ 00:14:48.529 Agustin: to be honest.
100 00:14:48.670 ⇒ 00:14:51.559 Agustin: So yeah, I mean, I have no rush. So unless.
101 00:14:52.540 ⇒ 00:14:59.190 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I submitted it. I I submitted over the weekend. So I don’t know if you receive the con confirmation.
102 00:15:00.110 ⇒ 00:15:06.549 Agustin: Not really. I mean, I I didn’t get an email. Maybe I will have to log in into gusto and and see.
103 00:15:06.550 ⇒ 00:15:07.100 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
104 00:15:08.010 ⇒ 00:15:09.360 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, double, check.
105 00:15:10.460 ⇒ 00:15:11.810 Agustin: I will check. Thank you.
106 00:15:12.378 ⇒ 00:15:13.970 Agustin: Yeah, I appreciate it.
107 00:15:14.220 ⇒ 00:15:14.770 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
108 00:15:15.510 ⇒ 00:15:23.488 Uttam Kumaran: okay, great. Well, yeah. Slack me. If anything. I know you’re working on the Unis stuff. So yeah, keep going on there and then I think we’ll talk in the meeting later today.
109 00:15:23.710 ⇒ 00:15:28.569 Agustin: Sure. Yeah, I sent a message to Shastin, because we are getting very few records.
110 00:15:28.880 ⇒ 00:15:30.190 Agustin: So yeah.
111 00:15:30.310 ⇒ 00:15:34.459 Agustin: I will. I message him. I will message. I message him. So
112 00:15:34.610 ⇒ 00:15:36.670 Agustin: I hope he replies today, yeah.
113 00:15:36.670 ⇒ 00:15:38.229 Uttam Kumaran: There. Okay, perfect.
114 00:15:38.840 ⇒ 00:15:39.560 Agustin: Great.
115 00:15:40.040 ⇒ 00:15:41.165 Agustin: Thank you, Tom.
116 00:15:41.540 ⇒ 00:15:41.909 Uttam Kumaran: So the.
117 00:15:41.910 ⇒ 00:15:42.510 Agustin: And reason.
118 00:15:43.040 ⇒ 00:15:44.090 Uttam Kumaran: Watch you. Bye.