Meeting Title: Uttam <> Akshay Date: 2024-06-11 Meeting participants: Akshay Kumar G, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:00:21.920 ⇒ 00:00:22.430 Shake.
2 00:00:22.430 ⇒ 00:00:23.240 Uttam Kumaran: Bring me!
3 00:00:27.690 ⇒ 00:00:28.529 Akshay Kumar G: Patrick William.
4 00:00:29.200 ⇒ 00:00:30.469 Uttam Kumaran: Hey! How are you?
5 00:00:30.990 ⇒ 00:00:31.570 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, I think.
6 00:00:33.390 ⇒ 00:00:35.959 Uttam Kumaran: Thanks. I know it’s late now. I’m doing well.
7 00:00:36.770 ⇒ 00:00:39.290 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, like, it’s fine, like, not a lot more carrier.
8 00:00:39.430 ⇒ 00:00:43.020 Akshay Kumar G: It’s not like, I’m not a I don’t have a fixed, sleeping demo.
9 00:00:43.430 ⇒ 00:00:45.610 Uttam Kumaran: You sleeping at like 4 Am. Now, or what.
10 00:00:46.410 ⇒ 00:00:51.329 Akshay Kumar G: No like it depends. Like, actually, I’m in the San Marcelli. So like it’s flexible, like.
11 00:00:52.670 ⇒ 00:00:55.539 Uttam Kumaran: Cool cool. How’s the how’s the week going so far?
12 00:00:57.150 ⇒ 00:01:02.539 Akshay Kumar G: That’s fine, like, basically, this sounds team and like utilizing for learning things like
13 00:01:02.640 ⇒ 00:01:06.560 Akshay Kumar G: starting like starting with like learning languages. Quite an adult story
14 00:01:06.660 ⇒ 00:01:08.430 Akshay Kumar G: like, I know, there’s a minimum.
15 00:01:09.370 ⇒ 00:01:16.296 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. So are you. You’re you’re in semester leave right now. So I guess today I wanted to kind of go through a couple of things. One I wanted to just
16 00:01:16.550 ⇒ 00:01:37.719 Uttam Kumaran: we we only met once. I wanted just say Hi and and chat, and also they. I wanted to get a little bit understanding of like what your availability is like. And then I’ll also go into like, kind of like, what I think the program is gonna be. But what’s your like? What’s your availability this summer for some people I know they’re available until like around August end, like, what’s your
17 00:01:37.988 ⇒ 00:01:43.930 Uttam Kumaran: availability? And then also let me know if you have some holidays that you’re taking off. I’ll just note down here in notion.
18 00:01:44.610 ⇒ 00:01:51.729 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, actually, I’m already snow, actually like for this month as well as like the next month, like, I have to hold 2 months as always, so
19 00:01:51.900 ⇒ 00:01:53.200 Akshay Kumar G: I’m pleased with it.
20 00:01:55.420 ⇒ 00:01:56.990 Uttam Kumaran: So June until end of July.
21 00:01:57.640 ⇒ 00:02:00.950 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, till the end of July. It’s the summer service.
22 00:02:01.580 ⇒ 00:02:02.210 Uttam Kumaran: Okay?
23 00:02:04.390 ⇒ 00:02:07.940 Uttam Kumaran: And then you’re not. Are you taking any like holidays or anything in between.
24 00:02:10.340 ⇒ 00:02:12.890 Akshay Kumar G: Like you’re asking for something like trip or something.
25 00:02:13.470 ⇒ 00:02:20.280 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, like any anytime. Just so I can have that in my calendar. So I know that you’re gonna be out of out of office.
26 00:02:20.280 ⇒ 00:02:32.440 Akshay Kumar G: No like I I don’t have anything like fix like maybe, like maybe some weekends. Maybe, like I have, I registered for a post so that may have exam. So I’m not like for a week or something. I don’t have anything.
27 00:02:33.380 ⇒ 00:02:44.920 Uttam Kumaran: And then, in terms of like the timings like during the day. I know we we’re gonna have our meeting tomorrow. 8 Pm. Isd, like, what is your sched, your schedule? You’re basically free until like
28 00:02:45.070 ⇒ 00:02:49.190 Uttam Kumaran: around now. Or you said around like 2 Pm. CST.
29 00:02:51.180 ⇒ 00:02:54.009 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, like, I’m fine with, like, basically like.
30 00:02:54.090 ⇒ 00:02:56.479 Akshay Kumar G: maybe, like, if you say in is like.
31 00:02:56.520 ⇒ 00:03:03.340 Akshay Kumar G: from morning 8 to till 12, like, I’m flexible like even more time. Also, you know, like I, we are unlinking. So
32 00:03:03.450 ⇒ 00:03:04.990 Akshay Kumar G: maybe, like April.
33 00:03:05.660 ⇒ 00:03:12.779 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. The major thing is, I just wanna make sure we can each meet most days. And I could just make sure you have all the help you need and information.
34 00:03:12.800 ⇒ 00:03:15.540 Uttam Kumaran: and then I will be scheduling meetings with
35 00:03:15.680 ⇒ 00:03:22.609 Uttam Kumaran: internal people, with some external people to do presentations. And so I just wanna make sure that you have. You know enough?
36 00:03:23.930 ⇒ 00:03:27.290 Uttam Kumaran: you know, available enough like time available to do that. So
37 00:03:27.800 ⇒ 00:03:28.969 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, good.
38 00:03:30.600 ⇒ 00:03:35.570 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, great and then do you have access? You? You were able to log into notion and see everything.
39 00:03:36.540 ⇒ 00:03:38.879 Akshay Kumar G: I’ll try it like I will try and select.
40 00:03:38.900 ⇒ 00:03:40.640 Akshay Kumar G: There’s no, it’s all in. Yeah. So.
41 00:03:40.640 ⇒ 00:03:45.340 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, see if you can get it. Now, I just wanna make sure that we’re able that you have that
42 00:03:45.639 ⇒ 00:03:47.970 Uttam Kumaran: just click through it, only it’ll take 1 min.
43 00:03:48.490 ⇒ 00:03:49.240 Akshay Kumar G: Dash it!
44 00:05:35.560 ⇒ 00:05:37.319 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, I got it. It’s so good.
45 00:05:37.770 ⇒ 00:05:38.409 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, great.
46 00:05:43.600 ⇒ 00:05:48.180 Uttam Kumaran: Okay? So I’ll be taking notes. And you should see your name. I’m gonna be taking notes in there
47 00:05:56.470 ⇒ 00:05:59.029 Uttam Kumaran: like, you see this this file right here.
48 00:06:02.220 ⇒ 00:06:02.830 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah.
49 00:06:03.820 ⇒ 00:06:04.570 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool.
50 00:06:04.780 ⇒ 00:06:05.789 Uttam Kumaran: So this
51 00:06:05.970 ⇒ 00:06:09.869 Uttam Kumaran: this, I’m gonna start taking some notes just down here in a meeting notes.
52 00:06:10.298 ⇒ 00:06:15.829 Uttam Kumaran: But one is if you can fill out this notion, Doc, with your information.
53 00:06:16.271 ⇒ 00:06:20.248 Uttam Kumaran: That way. This is just gives me some information about like,
54 00:06:21.080 ⇒ 00:06:27.829 Uttam Kumaran: your college like graduation, your Linkedin phone things like that. So I just have it for contact.
55 00:06:28.651 ⇒ 00:06:31.764 Uttam Kumaran: I’m going to just begin taking some notes here.
56 00:06:40.873 ⇒ 00:06:59.910 Uttam Kumaran: so the second thing for this week is we have a meeting tomorrow, and then I’m gonna be including everybody on a team meeting on Friday for Friday. I’m asking all the interns to pro, to create do this thing call we called 5 slides. Basically, your job is to produce 5 slides about you.
57 00:06:59.920 ⇒ 00:07:01.950 Uttam Kumaran: And have you used Google slides before.
58 00:07:03.540 ⇒ 00:07:06.710 Akshay Kumar G: No like I’m not used it like often so easy.
59 00:07:07.160 ⇒ 00:07:17.149 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, check out. So the goal is to try to set up 5 slides about you and Google slides. So this can be any of your interest, your hobbies, what you’re interested in learning this summer.
60 00:07:18.120 ⇒ 00:07:21.530 Uttam Kumaran: and then you’ll be presenting those 5 different slides to
61 00:07:21.650 ⇒ 00:07:23.070 Uttam Kumaran: the brave force team.
62 00:07:23.730 ⇒ 00:07:24.340 Uttam Kumaran: Yep.
63 00:07:24.340 ⇒ 00:07:25.070 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, sure.
64 00:07:26.850 ⇒ 00:07:27.950 Uttam Kumaran: Or check out.
65 00:07:29.920 ⇒ 00:07:33.450 Uttam Kumaran: Google slides for that. And that’ll be on Friday.
66 00:07:34.320 ⇒ 00:07:35.050 Uttam Kumaran: Nope.
67 00:07:36.030 ⇒ 00:07:51.459 Uttam Kumaran: the other thing is for so for this summer, basically, I know everybody is almost has about like one like 2 months or a little bit over 2 months. So the goal this summer will be having everybody focus on 2 disciplines. Right now, we have about 4 disciplines that
68 00:07:51.610 ⇒ 00:08:05.139 Uttam Kumaran: you know, you could potentially select. And this is what I’m gonna hopefully try to gather from everyone by the end of this week or early next week. So this would be between data analysis, analytics, engineering data engineering and AI.
69 00:08:05.170 ⇒ 00:08:19.430 Uttam Kumaran: So your job is to select 2 of those that you’re interested in learning about this summer. That’ll just help me kind of begin to develop a little bit of a curriculum around those topics and kind of put together some key projects for each person.
70 00:08:19.762 ⇒ 00:08:27.080 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s and that’s 1 more thing that you know if you can begin to think about, and I’ll be providing everybody with some information about each of those.
71 00:08:27.453 ⇒ 00:08:31.470 Uttam Kumaran: But the goal will be to select 2 of those to kind of focus on for this something.
72 00:08:32.850 ⇒ 00:08:39.299 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, so basically like data engineering in the sense like, we’ll be using software like spark. And all right.
73 00:08:40.330 ⇒ 00:08:49.350 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. So you’ll be doing like spark, but more like python. Data frames, workflows orchestration. Things like that.
74 00:08:51.490 ⇒ 00:08:55.310 Akshay Kumar G: So unless this will be basically using like SQL, excel, or like
75 00:08:55.530 ⇒ 00:08:56.470 Akshay Kumar G: so like.
76 00:08:56.470 ⇒ 00:08:57.560 Uttam Kumaran: And it’ll be sequel.
77 00:08:58.693 ⇒ 00:09:04.510 Uttam Kumaran: But it won’t. It’ll be more like mix of sequel python. And then some other technologies.
78 00:09:04.600 ⇒ 00:09:07.729 Uttam Kumaran: analytics, engineering will be all sequel. Basically.
79 00:09:11.260 ⇒ 00:09:17.590 Akshay Kumar G: So you said, like that, engineer data, engineering and analytics like, what was the other block? Okay.
80 00:09:17.900 ⇒ 00:09:31.179 Uttam Kumaran: Data analysis. So data analysis is on like asking the why questions. For example, why, where? Where did we make money from today? Where is our cost going? So asking those questions and looking at the business intelligence tool.
81 00:09:31.240 ⇒ 00:09:33.350 Uttam Kumaran: That’s what will be more data analysis.
82 00:09:33.810 ⇒ 00:09:34.550 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
83 00:09:36.670 ⇒ 00:09:42.110 Uttam Kumaran: But think about it. Don’t need to make a decision today. But I know everybody. Last time was interested in one specific thing.
84 00:09:42.720 ⇒ 00:09:53.230 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s what I wanna understand is. And the AI piece is really focused on automation. So automating some stuff internally for brain forge automating, some things for our team.
85 00:09:53.300 ⇒ 00:09:55.920 Uttam Kumaran: things like that. So every single.
86 00:09:56.060 ⇒ 00:09:59.470 Uttam Kumaran: all the 4 have very interesting projects associated with them. So
87 00:09:59.869 ⇒ 00:10:03.460 Uttam Kumaran: there’d be more than enough work to do for everybody.
88 00:10:03.820 ⇒ 00:10:04.295 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah.
89 00:10:08.260 ⇒ 00:10:12.589 Uttam Kumaran: So not much else today. Honestly, I wanted to just kind of like
90 00:10:12.680 ⇒ 00:10:26.529 Uttam Kumaran: make sure, I that I spend some time with everybody, and that I kind of gathered that you’re able to log into notion in slack. Do you have any questions for me or anything I can answer about like the program the summer, or let me know.
91 00:10:27.480 ⇒ 00:10:35.329 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, like, I am actually like, I’m from a non technical background. So it’ll be very helpful like to say, name some software you’ll be using for
92 00:10:35.420 ⇒ 00:10:37.330 Akshay Kumar G: basically analysis or something like
93 00:10:37.580 ⇒ 00:10:38.839 Akshay Kumar G: 2, basically. So
94 00:10:40.150 ⇒ 00:10:41.349 Akshay Kumar G: shall we start learning.
95 00:10:42.910 ⇒ 00:10:43.620 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, thank you.
96 00:10:45.030 ⇒ 00:10:48.039 Uttam Kumaran: So what is your what’s your what’s your studies right now?
97 00:10:48.170 ⇒ 00:10:50.410 Uttam Kumaran: Like, what’s your degree right now?
98 00:10:50.410 ⇒ 00:10:53.270 Akshay Kumar G: I’m doing bachelors in mechanical engineering.
99 00:10:54.530 ⇒ 00:10:55.160 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
100 00:10:55.630 ⇒ 00:11:02.990 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, I know, like python basics, and like our basics, so few libraries and python like matlot. Look, Ponda. So it was simple.
101 00:11:03.120 ⇒ 00:11:04.859 Akshay Kumar G: and see a bit of.
102 00:11:04.860 ⇒ 00:11:05.910 Uttam Kumaran: You’re doing like
103 00:11:06.080 ⇒ 00:11:09.170 Uttam Kumaran: you’re doing like CAD stuff. Other things right now.
104 00:11:09.580 ⇒ 00:11:11.629 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, yeah, I’m gonna, get Carol, too.
105 00:11:12.860 ⇒ 00:11:13.790 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay?
106 00:11:14.730 ⇒ 00:11:22.710 Uttam Kumaran: And then, like, going into data like, what? What? What about data is like the most interesting to you and what you know today.
107 00:11:24.680 ⇒ 00:11:33.549 Akshay Kumar G: So basically like, everything needs the data like we, everything starts off with data. So what kind of stuff we need. So what we need to extract from it. So
108 00:11:33.880 ⇒ 00:11:37.390 Akshay Kumar G: like, basically, if you say, like, everything will be like
109 00:11:38.820 ⇒ 00:11:41.539 Akshay Kumar G: wouldn’t precise like, everything’s about data like
110 00:11:42.230 ⇒ 00:11:45.149 Akshay Kumar G: like, I don’t get into the exact definition or something, so
111 00:11:45.920 ⇒ 00:11:51.609 Akshay Kumar G: it could see primary thing for like each and everything. So whatever we need like, it should be access from the certain.
112 00:11:53.810 ⇒ 00:12:01.779 Uttam Kumaran: And then tell me like, where do? Where do you in your like? Day to day, and things like that? Where do you use? Where do you use data or like, what have you seen? That’s interesting.
113 00:12:05.070 ⇒ 00:12:06.299 Akshay Kumar G: I didn’t get what you’re asking.
114 00:12:06.940 ⇒ 00:12:12.620 Uttam Kumaran: Now, I said, like in stuff that you’ve done a project that you worked on like, what are some of the data things that you found like super interesting.
115 00:12:14.096 ⇒ 00:12:18.349 Akshay Kumar G: Maybe like, say, you work on some heat transfer policy like.
116 00:12:18.490 ⇒ 00:12:26.460 Akshay Kumar G: so basically stuff like, how certain things very so certain things like we should draw some analysis or like, we should extract you things from those things.
117 00:12:26.590 ⇒ 00:12:42.819 Akshay Kumar G: So basically, like, maybe the data will be like, it will be like lots of data would be this. So we need certain software or something. So extract, do things like some, we should draw some insight into that. So that, like at last, like what was the like final decision or something? How things changes! So those seconds.
118 00:12:43.510 ⇒ 00:12:49.700 Uttam Kumaran: But it seems like you have. You have. You have a little bit of interest in like the data analysis side, which is like, why? Questions.
119 00:12:55.260 ⇒ 00:13:01.779 Uttam Kumaran: okay? Great. Yeah. So I know the big things I think for so I’ll just send you this
120 00:13:02.100 ⇒ 00:13:03.890 Uttam Kumaran: link in slack
121 00:13:09.240 ⇒ 00:13:10.060 Uttam Kumaran: one second.
122 00:13:14.510 ⇒ 00:13:22.269 Uttam Kumaran: So I’ve just taken some notes here. So the biggest thing, the action items is to fill out the notion document is to prepare these 5 slides
123 00:13:22.950 ⇒ 00:13:23.720 Uttam Kumaran: yet.
124 00:13:28.210 ⇒ 00:13:29.879 Uttam Kumaran: and then to think about
125 00:13:30.620 ⇒ 00:13:32.560 Uttam Kumaran: 2 of the 4
126 00:13:32.710 ⇒ 00:13:33.860 Uttam Kumaran: discipline. This.
127 00:13:35.260 ⇒ 00:13:47.649 Uttam Kumaran: is there any other question for me that you think so? I’m gonna be getting you all this information. I just wanna make sure everybody’s on boarded today and get you everything hopefully. By the time you wake up in the morning you should have a bunch of different things.
128 00:13:48.271 ⇒ 00:13:51.010 Uttam Kumaran: What else? What other questions for me?
129 00:13:52.500 ⇒ 00:14:02.440 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, like, basically, I want to know about the projects or something like your audio listed. So I guess it will be better after attending. Maybe tomorrow’s meeting with all sick. I’ll get some insights from it.
130 00:14:03.160 ⇒ 00:14:17.330 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I’ll have some preparation on potential projects that everybody will working on part of the thing this summer. I also want to give everybody access to all the learning and curriculum. So you can spend some time on your own going and learning and taking some of these online courses.
131 00:14:17.614 ⇒ 00:14:35.050 Uttam Kumaran: Basically, how I learned all this stuff will make available. So it’ll be a mix of both learning. I also want to have you guys attend some meetings with some people from the industry to kind of present on what they do. And then the last thing I also want to do is actually, you work on some projects that we will deploy in production.
132 00:14:35.990 ⇒ 00:15:01.029 Uttam Kumaran: so there’ll be a mix of those again. It’s it’s I don’t want to overwhelm everybody but I wanna make sure that you have enough stuff to be busy, and then, even if you select 2 out of the 4, you’ll have access to all the materials for the other 2. So don’t worry too much about making a decision one way or the other. The goal is really so that you are able to take a deep dive and learn one discipline and kind of understand exactly like the way that we work
133 00:15:02.460 ⇒ 00:15:08.170 Uttam Kumaran: and then basically spend a lot of time with me and the rest of the team kind of learning about how you know we do engineering.
134 00:15:09.290 ⇒ 00:15:10.020 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
135 00:15:12.090 ⇒ 00:15:15.740 Uttam Kumaran: okay, cool. What else? What? Where are you in India right now?
136 00:15:16.700 ⇒ 00:15:17.830 Akshay Kumar G: I’m in Chennai.
137 00:15:18.630 ⇒ 00:15:19.430 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.
138 00:15:20.540 ⇒ 00:15:22.350 Uttam Kumaran: I was just there 2 months ago.
139 00:15:23.490 ⇒ 00:15:24.390 Akshay Kumar G: Oh, really.
140 00:15:25.990 ⇒ 00:15:30.990 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I don’t know. I’m I know I live in. And then I don’t know if you met Sibi, his business park.
141 00:15:32.930 ⇒ 00:15:35.209 Akshay Kumar G: Okay, like, actually, I haven’t noticed, ma’am. Good.
142 00:15:35.810 ⇒ 00:15:37.259 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, okay, nice.
143 00:15:38.250 ⇒ 00:15:42.870 Uttam Kumaran: So I went. We went and met him. And then, have you met Sibi like his? The business partner.
144 00:15:43.570 ⇒ 00:15:44.849 Akshay Kumar G: Oh, I don’t even know.
145 00:15:45.676 ⇒ 00:15:49.820 Uttam Kumaran: I think they them work together on their company to be with my cousin.
146 00:15:50.780 ⇒ 00:15:51.450 Akshay Kumar G: Oh.
147 00:15:53.280 ⇒ 00:15:53.950 Akshay Kumar G: okay.
148 00:15:54.790 ⇒ 00:16:01.580 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool nothing else. Just send me a slack message. I’m gonna get you a bunch more information. So hopefully expect that you know later
149 00:16:01.610 ⇒ 00:16:14.189 Uttam Kumaran: today, my time, but hopefully, tomorrow morning, your time. But yeah, I’m very excited. Thank you for taking the time this summer. I I think you guys are, gonna learn a lot. Hopefully give you a lot of stuff to to dive into and learn. So.
150 00:16:15.280 ⇒ 00:16:16.190 Akshay Kumar G: Yeah, I totally
151 00:16:16.520 ⇒ 00:16:17.729 Akshay Kumar G: thank you for the opportunity.
152 00:16:18.420 ⇒ 00:16:21.199 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. Okay. Okay. Alright. I’ll talk to you soon.
153 00:16:21.450 ⇒ 00:16:22.300 Akshay Kumar G: Acid.