Meeting Title: Uttam <> Suraj-Weekly Date: 2024-08-27 Meeting participants: Suraj, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:02:11.050 ⇒ 00:02:11.569 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, Sir Roger!
2 00:02:13.730 ⇒ 00:02:14.509 Uttam Kumaran: Hey! How are you?
3 00:02:15.680 ⇒ 00:02:17.290 suraj: Doing good. How are you.
4 00:02:17.590 ⇒ 00:02:19.120 Uttam Kumaran: Good! How’s the week been.
5 00:02:22.228 ⇒ 00:02:26.501 suraj: Going good finally able to install the real end stuff.
6 00:02:26.890 ⇒ 00:02:27.260 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.
7 00:02:27.260 ⇒ 00:02:34.734 suraj: As soon as I got the laptop yesterday. Yeah, I saw the little walkthrough video of yours. And it’s great. And
8 00:02:35.550 ⇒ 00:02:36.980 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Good. I didn’t know.
9 00:02:36.980 ⇒ 00:02:37.300 suraj: Okay.
10 00:02:37.320 ⇒ 00:02:41.389 Uttam Kumaran: We we recorded that, but I didn’t know whether it was gonna end up being useful. I was waiting
11 00:02:41.410 ⇒ 00:02:42.870 Uttam Kumaran: for the next person, you know.
12 00:02:43.930 ⇒ 00:02:44.839 Uttam Kumaran: to try it out so.
13 00:02:44.840 ⇒ 00:02:45.990 suraj: Okay, okay.
14 00:02:47.120 ⇒ 00:02:49.189 suraj: when did that? When did you record that.
15 00:02:49.690 ⇒ 00:02:51.841 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe a few months ago, but
16 00:02:52.780 ⇒ 00:02:53.599 suraj: Okay, you know I’m glad.
17 00:02:53.600 ⇒ 00:03:00.960 Uttam Kumaran: Because I just it takes a I’ve I’ve walked through real so many times. So one day we’re just like, let’s start recording everything so that it’s there.
18 00:03:00.960 ⇒ 00:03:04.727 suraj: That is, that is useful for someone like me, because
19 00:03:05.140 ⇒ 00:03:11.380 suraj: it’s new, right like. And I was just yesterday night, and I was trying to execute the same commands you as you did, and
20 00:03:12.126 ⇒ 00:03:17.323 suraj: got some errors, and today morning I was able to fix them and
21 00:03:17.810 ⇒ 00:03:27.469 suraj: So I I’m into the developer, real developer page and able to. Look, look at those things like how you did. How you guys did everything.
22 00:03:29.280 ⇒ 00:03:34.870 suraj: and I had few questions, and I called Nicholas in the morning and able to figure that out.
23 00:03:35.474 ⇒ 00:03:38.709 suraj: yeah, everything is going out so far.
24 00:03:40.000 ⇒ 00:03:40.880 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, great.
25 00:03:41.820 ⇒ 00:03:47.090 Uttam Kumaran: How is were you able to kind of like poke around at things on your side? And what are you seeing.
26 00:03:48.792 ⇒ 00:03:58.570 suraj: So yesterday morning, Nicholas told that there is an issue with the marketing dashboard related to the revenue from Google Amazon all this stuff.
27 00:03:58.730 ⇒ 00:04:02.790 suraj: And he showed what’s happening. And I see it’s an issue
28 00:04:02.810 ⇒ 00:04:04.825 suraj: and but like
29 00:04:05.650 ⇒ 00:04:08.319 suraj: But today morning, I saw them in the back end
30 00:04:09.370 ⇒ 00:04:18.230 suraj: the data. And it was, everything is null in there. So I think, he told, Ryan is also looking into the back end data.
31 00:04:18.925 ⇒ 00:04:23.789 suraj: Yeah. So I looked at the few dashboards. And what I’m planning
32 00:04:23.810 ⇒ 00:04:25.600 suraj: today and tomorrow is true.
33 00:04:25.800 ⇒ 00:04:27.859 suraj: Look at the tables and.
34 00:04:27.860 ⇒ 00:04:29.280 Uttam Kumaran: I just didn’t want.
35 00:04:30.650 ⇒ 00:04:31.809 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Okay. Great.
36 00:04:31.810 ⇒ 00:04:32.440 suraj: How many?
37 00:04:33.970 ⇒ 00:04:39.770 suraj: Yeah. Yeah. So able to planning to look at some tables and see how the data is failing
38 00:04:39.960 ⇒ 00:04:43.109 suraj: into the snowflake. And yeah.
39 00:04:43.300 ⇒ 00:04:47.089 suraj: and also want to explore all dashboards from real.
40 00:04:47.300 ⇒ 00:04:49.410 suraj: and see if there are issues also
41 00:04:49.530 ⇒ 00:04:53.239 suraj: like accuracy. Kind of things. That’s what Nicolas here
42 00:04:53.280 ⇒ 00:04:54.400 suraj: when tour
43 00:04:54.933 ⇒ 00:05:02.939 suraj: but I want to also know some things from you like, basically what, exactly will be my role kind
44 00:05:03.280 ⇒ 00:05:05.150 suraj: of things here.
45 00:05:06.980 ⇒ 00:05:22.339 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, you know. It’s kind of. I kind of wanted to wait until you were able to kind of see the data and things like that. The biggest thing, as I mentioned last week, is going to be primarily working on tasks for Ken Chuck and the rest of the business.
46 00:05:22.733 ⇒ 00:05:27.289 Uttam Kumaran: So you know, you met Kim last week. She had several requests to add columns.
47 00:05:27.290 ⇒ 00:05:27.790 suraj: Yeah.
48 00:05:27.790 ⇒ 00:05:44.270 Uttam Kumaran: Or answer some questions, so the initial goal will be making sure that all of their reporting is up to date, and has all the things they need, and then we work with them on a weekly basis to collect more requirements. So Nico should have shared with you, like some of the outstanding issues and things like that.
49 00:05:44.430 ⇒ 00:05:47.619 Uttam Kumaran: So ideally for Thursday’s meeting.
50 00:05:47.820 ⇒ 00:05:49.630 Uttam Kumaran: you know, we can come prepared
51 00:05:49.660 ⇒ 00:05:51.610 Uttam Kumaran: to kind of understand.
52 00:05:51.660 ⇒ 00:05:56.929 Uttam Kumaran: you know, at what current like, basically, Nico has tasks that already exist.
53 00:05:56.990 ⇒ 00:06:06.230 Uttam Kumaran: that we’re working on like adding certain columns and things like that. So a lot of that would like to transition over to you. You’re able to add those columns or directly work with Kim
54 00:06:06.560 ⇒ 00:06:08.290 Uttam Kumaran: and chopped in slack
55 00:06:08.620 ⇒ 00:06:10.820 Uttam Kumaran: for any of their reporting needs.
56 00:06:10.970 ⇒ 00:06:12.090 Uttam Kumaran: And basically like.
57 00:06:12.090 ⇒ 00:06:12.490 suraj: Okay.
58 00:06:12.890 ⇒ 00:06:18.209 Uttam Kumaran: And like, kind of basically slowly take over in terms of like answering any of their reporting questions.
59 00:06:19.290 ⇒ 00:06:20.780 suraj: Got it. Got it.
60 00:06:22.430 ⇒ 00:06:23.350 suraj: So
61 00:06:23.800 ⇒ 00:06:31.010 suraj: anything modifications to the existing reports or new reports I should. I will be doing those things right.
62 00:06:31.270 ⇒ 00:06:38.257 Uttam Kumaran: That’s correct. Yeah. So you’ll be kind of making any of those code changes. And then pushing full requests to github.
63 00:06:39.680 ⇒ 00:06:46.660 Uttam Kumaran: you know. And I think anything, anything that goes into bringing in new data or modeling data. You know. I I
64 00:06:46.770 ⇒ 00:06:54.090 Uttam Kumaran: I I know I mentioned you. You mentioned before that you’re definitely interested in learning that stuff. But we have some support here to kind of make that happen as well.
65 00:06:54.647 ⇒ 00:06:59.410 Uttam Kumaran: But the biggest thing is going to be working with Nico and the pool parts team
66 00:06:59.430 ⇒ 00:07:01.040 Uttam Kumaran: to continue to answer any.
67 00:07:01.040 ⇒ 00:07:01.490 suraj: Okay.
68 00:07:01.490 ⇒ 00:07:01.920 Uttam Kumaran: Have.
69 00:07:03.150 ⇒ 00:07:06.800 Uttam Kumaran: So again, Kim had some questions about measuring
70 00:07:06.810 ⇒ 00:07:09.490 Uttam Kumaran: customer acquisition costs. And Ltv.
71 00:07:09.920 ⇒ 00:07:13.769 Uttam Kumaran: right? I’m sure you’re familiar with like doing that sort of stuff in the past.
72 00:07:14.060 ⇒ 00:07:15.770 Uttam Kumaran: So the biggest thing I would encourage you.
73 00:07:15.770 ⇒ 00:07:16.559 suraj: Yes, yes.
74 00:07:16.560 ⇒ 00:07:30.579 Uttam Kumaran: To to understand, to continue to understand the data models that exist now, and for me, it’s a little. It’s just a little bit difficult to kind of give you like every single detail instead. What would probably better is if you have a list of questions
75 00:07:30.610 ⇒ 00:07:40.620 Uttam Kumaran: like, you’re like, Hey, I’ve been looking at the All Orders table. I’m wondering where this data comes from. Where does this logic live? That is really easy for me to, you know, kind of give you a little bit of background.
76 00:07:40.620 ⇒ 00:07:42.179 suraj: No no answer.
77 00:07:42.180 ⇒ 00:07:42.820 Uttam Kumaran: Specifically.
78 00:07:42.820 ⇒ 00:07:43.340 suraj: It’s.
79 00:07:43.340 ⇒ 00:07:48.779 Uttam Kumaran: Otherwise, you know, we can spend 10 h just talking about. You know the whole model.
80 00:07:48.780 ⇒ 00:07:49.310 suraj: Take some time.
81 00:07:49.310 ⇒ 00:07:50.050 Uttam Kumaran: For sure.
82 00:07:50.270 ⇒ 00:07:51.010 Uttam Kumaran: better.
83 00:07:51.290 ⇒ 00:07:57.438 suraj: Of course. So how we are supposed to communicate with the client example. Chuck and Kim like
84 00:07:58.030 ⇒ 00:07:59.629 suraj: in the slack itself.
85 00:08:00.280 ⇒ 00:08:03.871 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, so we communicate both on slack and
86 00:08:04.370 ⇒ 00:08:11.159 Uttam Kumaran: and in our weekly meetings. So I just want to confirm, if are you in the slack channels with them. Yet or no.
87 00:08:11.400 ⇒ 00:08:12.869 suraj: Doesn’t look like you are.
88 00:08:12.870 ⇒ 00:08:16.414 Uttam Kumaran: So let me. Yeah, let me just make sure you’re in there.
89 00:08:20.900 ⇒ 00:08:23.120 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I just added you now.
90 00:08:23.120 ⇒ 00:08:24.840 suraj: Yeah, yeah.
91 00:08:30.560 ⇒ 00:08:32.419 suraj: Shipping and monkey.
92 00:08:46.930 ⇒ 00:08:49.189 suraj: Okay. Now, I see these students.
93 00:08:49.190 ⇒ 00:08:56.449 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. So these 3 is where we’re gonna be interacting with the clients. I mean again, right now, there’s not much noise, but.
94 00:08:56.450 ⇒ 00:08:57.200 suraj: Nice.
95 00:08:57.200 ⇒ 00:08:57.950 Uttam Kumaran: You can see.
96 00:08:57.950 ⇒ 00:08:59.209 suraj: The biggest thing.
97 00:08:59.210 ⇒ 00:09:00.670 Uttam Kumaran: That I that I would love?
98 00:09:01.044 ⇒ 00:09:09.270 Uttam Kumaran: You know, from from you. And Nico is really just to get organized on, like, what are the current list of requests from Kim and from Chuck.
99 00:09:09.610 ⇒ 00:09:17.269 Uttam Kumaran: And what are the what are the key? Things that need to change in the rail and to achieve that reporting for them.
100 00:09:18.240 ⇒ 00:09:19.010 suraj: Yeah, that’s something.
101 00:09:19.010 ⇒ 00:09:31.050 Uttam Kumaran: I think that you know I again, like Nico, has been mainly running the project. But there are things that Kim has been asking for around customer Ltv. Around. Customer acquisition costs around marketing costs.
102 00:09:31.427 ⇒ 00:09:37.459 Uttam Kumaran: That we want to do. And then I also have several things in the backlog that I want to start to
103 00:09:37.500 ⇒ 00:09:39.179 Uttam Kumaran: hand over to you.
104 00:09:39.270 ⇒ 00:09:45.570 Uttam Kumaran: So the one thing that I can encourage you to do is to try to stay organized either in motion.
105 00:09:45.977 ⇒ 00:09:52.389 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe the best place to start to organize kind of like what the immediate tasks are for. Pull parts.
106 00:09:52.732 ⇒ 00:10:06.270 Uttam Kumaran: The biggest thing. That I’m gonna just send a message now to Nico, in our group is basically to start writing a notion kind of like what all the tasks that that you need to be tackling are for Kim.
107 00:10:07.380 ⇒ 00:10:09.320 Uttam Kumaran: So there are some things that are outstanding.
108 00:10:09.601 ⇒ 00:10:12.589 Uttam Kumaran: Does that help or like? What do you think about that?
109 00:10:12.590 ⇒ 00:10:14.060 suraj: Yeah, yeah, absurd.
110 00:10:14.920 ⇒ 00:10:22.429 suraj: absolutely. So. If I know what are the tasks like list of tasks, I’ll start looking to one by one and see. Obviously, I will have more questions then.
111 00:10:22.540 ⇒ 00:10:32.359 suraj: And I think primarily like, as I got just access to these tools I’ll start looking into this like the back end data or the real.
112 00:10:32.380 ⇒ 00:10:34.360 suraj: Everything is current in this week.
113 00:10:34.410 ⇒ 00:10:51.710 suraj: And and I I thought of exploring myself all the things in the Puerto Rican. But unfortunately, I didn’t have that access. So probably even by this long weekend, have any plans. So I’ll I’ll I’ll also look into these like exploring basically the tool and stuff.
114 00:10:52.460 ⇒ 00:10:56.750 suraj: So I think it will be helpful. Yeah, for Nick Nicole to
115 00:10:58.506 ⇒ 00:11:00.649 suraj: Let me please stop this task. Basically.
116 00:11:01.200 ⇒ 00:11:08.219 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. So I’ll send a note right after this. And then why don’t we try to meet again sometime before the end of the week.
117 00:11:08.800 ⇒ 00:11:24.590 Uttam Kumaran: mainly, I’m gonna ask him to kind of keep this main pool parts motion area organized. And then basically, again, a lot of the analysis tasks will be both, you know, hopefully creating new dashboards, but also maybe answering some questions
118 00:11:24.590 ⇒ 00:11:39.789 Uttam Kumaran: or doing some analysis for them. I just want to make sure everything is tracked, and it’s also very clear for you. So there’s not any confusion, I know, looking at the roadmap, looking at the stuff in notion. Now there’s a lot. So I’m going to go, have and make sure that that’s that’s well organized.
119 00:11:41.030 ⇒ 00:11:45.910 Uttam Kumaran: And then also for him to just make a basic list of like, hey, these are the things that we want to take care of.
120 00:11:46.287 ⇒ 00:11:50.090 Uttam Kumaran: And then we can set some deadlines. And then again, you’re in the slack channel. So
121 00:11:50.160 ⇒ 00:11:53.600 Uttam Kumaran: also feel free to ping Chuck or Kim there.
122 00:11:54.900 ⇒ 00:11:57.659 Uttam Kumaran: you know, and they’re gonna be our primary stakeholders. So.
123 00:11:58.070 ⇒ 00:12:00.499 suraj: Yeah, yeah, understood. Yeah, sure. Sure.
124 00:12:00.630 ⇒ 00:12:01.950 suraj: Okay, cool.
125 00:12:03.390 ⇒ 00:12:03.710 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
126 00:12:04.150 ⇒ 00:12:15.851 Uttam Kumaran: I hope you you know you poke around in snowflake and rail and feel free to run any queries you need and also again feel free. If you want to export stuff to excel and play around, it’s totally fine.
127 00:12:16.980 ⇒ 00:12:20.409 Uttam Kumaran: But again, ideally, I think you should have the hang of
128 00:12:20.890 ⇒ 00:12:25.511 Uttam Kumaran: ideally by. You know, the end of next week. I’m hoping that you’re comfortable with
129 00:12:25.900 ⇒ 00:12:31.190 Uttam Kumaran: you know, making changes to rail pushing code and then having those changes, you know. Come up.
130 00:12:31.590 ⇒ 00:12:33.390 suraj: Absolutely, absolutely definitely.
131 00:12:33.410 ⇒ 00:12:44.381 suraj: Yeah, yeah, that’s what I’m planning to. Yeah, just like, I, I just want to let you know one thing like, I I’m not used to this AI tool or or this kind of thing, so I’ll I’ll
132 00:12:44.670 ⇒ 00:12:45.770 Uttam Kumaran: Just barely.
133 00:12:45.770 ⇒ 00:12:48.869 suraj: Me for a while, so that I can catch up things.
134 00:12:48.870 ⇒ 00:12:52.976 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, no problem. I, you know, hopefully, I think a lot of the actual
135 00:12:53.760 ⇒ 00:13:00.469 Uttam Kumaran: the actual coding part of real. There’s the only AI thing is just helps you write the 1st dashboard.
136 00:13:00.470 ⇒ 00:13:01.620 suraj: Yeah, yeah, true, yeah.
137 00:13:01.620 ⇒ 00:13:09.900 Uttam Kumaran: You know, but for the most part it’s just defining metrics and dimensions, and are you’re able to run it locally and kind of make a change and see it populate right? Locally.
138 00:13:12.220 ⇒ 00:13:15.149 suraj: I will, I will do that. I I saw the previews.
139 00:13:15.380 ⇒ 00:13:18.919 suraj: I just executed, only the previews of the dashboards.
140 00:13:19.170 ⇒ 00:13:24.490 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. So the the preview of the dashboard is exactly what’s what’s getting published publicly to them.
141 00:13:24.770 ⇒ 00:13:25.490 Uttam Kumaran: And so.
142 00:13:25.490 ⇒ 00:13:25.850 suraj: Got that.
143 00:13:25.850 ⇒ 00:13:33.640 Uttam Kumaran: Basically, the development flow is like, you make a change locally, you preview it. You’re like, okay, it’s good to go. And then you push that code to Github.
144 00:13:33.952 ⇒ 00:13:38.629 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know. Are you you familiar with working with Github, and that before or no.
145 00:13:39.060 ⇒ 00:13:43.449 suraj: Not much, but I’m I’m getting used to it. Yeah, I’m exploring.
146 00:13:43.450 ⇒ 00:13:51.640 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s also an area, too, where, you know, there’s a lot of us in the team are are very well worse. The best thing about is again. So we just keep code
147 00:13:52.014 ⇒ 00:13:58.130 Uttam Kumaran: up to date. And then we can have multiple people collaborating. So it’ll be a learning process. And again like, take your time and
148 00:13:58.516 ⇒ 00:14:02.320 Uttam Kumaran: the biggest thing. I want you to be as as comfortable with
149 00:14:02.390 ⇒ 00:14:05.386 Uttam Kumaran: the tools and then comfortable with the code base.
150 00:14:05.820 ⇒ 00:14:11.679 Uttam Kumaran: And you know, I I think the stuff they’re asking. Once you’re once you see it, you’ll you’ll be like, Oh, this is a piece of cake. So
151 00:14:11.970 ⇒ 00:14:12.530 Uttam Kumaran: yeah.
152 00:14:12.530 ⇒ 00:14:14.269 suraj: Yeah. Sounds good. Then.
153 00:14:15.470 ⇒ 00:14:20.532 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool. So let me send. Let me send that note to Nico, and then
154 00:14:21.224 ⇒ 00:14:27.249 Uttam Kumaran: We don’t have time. Let me see if I can set some time with us tomorrow or Thursday
155 00:14:27.561 ⇒ 00:14:33.759 Uttam Kumaran: maybe tomorrow. Towards the end of the day, because I know we have our meetings with Kim and Chuck on Thursday
156 00:14:34.240 ⇒ 00:14:38.819 Uttam Kumaran: that way. Maybe tomorrow we can meet and just prepare what we’re gonna talk to them about.
157 00:14:39.380 ⇒ 00:14:40.020 suraj: Okay.
158 00:14:40.690 ⇒ 00:14:58.149 suraj: I I think you can set up some sometime around this time, even like end of end of tomorrow, should be fine, so that tomorrow morning I will. I will ask Nico to see the list of the things depending.
159 00:14:59.080 ⇒ 00:15:04.000 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, perfect. Let’s do that. I’m just. I’m gonna send the meeting right now and then. You should see that.
160 00:15:04.040 ⇒ 00:15:09.560 Uttam Kumaran: And then yeah, again feel free. Any questions you have asked on slack. We have a lot of people that are floating around that
161 00:15:09.670 ⇒ 00:15:12.450 Uttam Kumaran: know how to do everything. So you have a lot of help on your side.
162 00:15:13.080 ⇒ 00:15:14.210 suraj: Sure, sure.
163 00:15:15.057 ⇒ 00:15:16.752 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Great.
164 00:15:17.760 ⇒ 00:15:23.087 Uttam Kumaran: yeah. I’m glad. I’m glad that you know we’re able to get your laptop and everything anything else I can answer, or
165 00:15:23.580 ⇒ 00:15:26.520 Uttam Kumaran: any other questions. You have anything.
166 00:15:26.520 ⇒ 00:15:30.550 suraj: Moment. Yeah, I’m sure I’ll have more starting from tomorrow.
167 00:15:30.920 ⇒ 00:15:35.389 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool. Yeah. And then this time every week, you know, is mainly for you to ask
168 00:15:35.540 ⇒ 00:15:37.456 Uttam Kumaran: any questions for me and
169 00:15:37.900 ⇒ 00:15:45.750 Uttam Kumaran: you know anything I can help answer, I think for the 1st few weeks it’ll probably be, you know, strictly about stuff that we’re doing. But I want to make sure that you have time.
170 00:15:45.850 ⇒ 00:15:47.900 Uttam Kumaran: Asked me about our process about
171 00:15:47.960 ⇒ 00:15:53.330 Uttam Kumaran: like vendors, the business, or anything. So feel free to use this time. However, you’d like.
172 00:15:54.910 ⇒ 00:15:55.660 suraj: Yeah.
173 00:15:55.900 ⇒ 00:15:57.570 suraj: sure. Sure got it.
174 00:15:58.210 ⇒ 00:16:01.819 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, Suresh. I’ll talk to you tomorrow. Then.
175 00:16:03.090 ⇒ 00:16:03.780 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
176 00:16:03.970 ⇒ 00:16:05.540 suraj: Yeah, I’ll read it. Them. Goodbye.
177 00:16:05.540 ⇒ 00:16:06.650 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Thank you.