Meeting Title: Uttam_Mitchell Date: 2025-01-13 Meeting participants: Mitchell Wright, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:01:01.490 ⇒ 00:01:02.764 Mitchell Wright: Yo! What’s up.
2 00:01:03.190 ⇒ 00:01:03.980 Uttam Kumaran: Yo.
3 00:01:05.593 ⇒ 00:01:10.867 Mitchell Wright: Cool. Thanks for hopping on with me. Okay, so here’s here’s the basic basically, what’s going on.
4 00:01:12.140 ⇒ 00:01:31.117 Mitchell Wright: there’s a potential of like very quickly hiring a data person. And so I think what’s gonna work best is, if we just did like I don’t know. Almost like a staff augmentation kind of thing, because right now, like, I just need help getting
5 00:01:33.720 ⇒ 00:01:37.689 Mitchell Wright: like stuff set up like procured and set up right like.
6 00:01:37.690 ⇒ 00:01:38.130 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
7 00:01:38.130 ⇒ 00:01:39.946 Mitchell Wright: That’s the main thing. And
8 00:01:40.530 ⇒ 00:01:50.165 Mitchell Wright: so, yeah, like, Snowflake, polytomic dvt, whatever like, get all that stuff set up and connecting data sources. And like, I just need data and snowflake and
9 00:01:50.840 ⇒ 00:01:55.489 Mitchell Wright: yeah. And then I think we kind of can reevaluate from there of like.
10 00:01:55.490 ⇒ 00:01:56.000 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
11 00:01:56.190 ⇒ 00:02:03.380 Mitchell Wright: What things are looking like. But I think that’s gonna be the fastest way for us to get up and running and gonna be the most impactful for me.
12 00:02:03.380 ⇒ 00:02:03.900 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
13 00:02:03.900 ⇒ 00:02:10.399 Mitchell Wright: What does that kind of look like for you guys just like we get a block of hours, and we’re just paying.
14 00:02:10.400 ⇒ 00:02:10.910 Uttam Kumaran: Exactly.
15 00:02:10.919 ⇒ 00:02:12.129 Mitchell Wright: Hourly rate.
16 00:02:12.130 ⇒ 00:02:13.030 Uttam Kumaran: Exactly.
17 00:02:13.340 ⇒ 00:02:17.520 Mitchell Wright: Okay, yeah. And what does what does that look like? Hourly rate wise?
18 00:02:18.170 ⇒ 00:02:22.200 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, for this, it would be 200 an hour, and we would just
19 00:02:22.610 ⇒ 00:02:34.830 Uttam Kumaran: we would just run this and then, yeah, as soon as you get a sense that makes sense. I mean, like, Yeah, I’ve all this stuff you you asked for. I’m like, this is really straightforward. And I was like, we just will run as fast or as much as you
20 00:02:35.670 ⇒ 00:02:47.240 Uttam Kumaran: to run. So when you’re like, what’s the scope? I’m like kind of like all this all the normal shit. So. But I get where you’re coming from. And yeah, also again, like even us, if you need help with
21 00:02:47.630 ⇒ 00:02:50.260 Uttam Kumaran: hiring that person or evaluating, let me know.
22 00:02:50.260 ⇒ 00:02:57.050 Mitchell Wright: Yeah, so basically, the data team from 1st from Vercel wants to leave more or less like.
23 00:02:57.050 ⇒ 00:02:57.420 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
24 00:02:57.420 ⇒ 00:02:59.159 Mitchell Wright: All of them. So I basically
25 00:02:59.620 ⇒ 00:03:10.840 Mitchell Wright: one or 2 of them good near future, like in a few weeks. But like even that, like, I need to just kind of move on some stuff, cause I we’re at a point now where it’s like.
26 00:03:11.880 ⇒ 00:03:34.700 Mitchell Wright: Shit’s broken data isn’t coming from our platform like from our product into our marketing systems. And like I, if I just get the data into the data warehouse and we can reverse Etl, we can do whatever like. Also, just like running simple queries like they won’t let me run them against prod, which okay, that’s fine. But like
27 00:03:34.860 ⇒ 00:03:38.130 Mitchell Wright: I need, I need to be able to get this data. So like.
28 00:03:38.530 ⇒ 00:03:40.400 Mitchell Wright: I need the data warehouse like.
29 00:03:40.400 ⇒ 00:03:40.720 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
30 00:03:40.720 ⇒ 00:03:41.679 Mitchell Wright: So that’s kind of what I.
31 00:03:41.680 ⇒ 00:03:48.140 Uttam Kumaran: So let me try to get you something today. I mean, like on our side, what we need to get started is like as long as you just have Github and
32 00:03:48.330 ⇒ 00:03:49.170 Uttam Kumaran: like
33 00:03:49.610 ⇒ 00:04:05.540 Uttam Kumaran: on the procurement side, like, you can either give us basically, the the initial steps are like we would just need an email, probably on your domain, and then I can go get everything like I can go set up Snowflake on a credit card that’ll be a trial and then as long as you have Github, then we can just do dbt.
34 00:04:05.730 ⇒ 00:04:11.510 Uttam Kumaran: I assume you want to do. Do you care about like using cloud or doing core.
35 00:04:11.510 ⇒ 00:04:17.488 Mitchell Wright: Just core for now, just so we could get up and running, and we don’t have to deal with procurement bullshit there.
36 00:04:18.430 ⇒ 00:04:20.429 Uttam Kumaran: Cloud, for one person is free.
37 00:04:20.939 ⇒ 00:04:26.929 Uttam Kumaran: We can’t share creds because they want like 2 fa. Oh, we could, but it’ll be a little bit annoying.
38 00:04:27.140 ⇒ 00:04:29.099 Uttam Kumaran: so I can, just if I.
39 00:04:29.100 ⇒ 00:04:33.419 Mitchell Wright: I mean, what’s the like setting it up on on Github like.
40 00:04:34.080 ⇒ 00:04:37.159 Uttam Kumaran: I would I we just have github actions that run core
41 00:04:37.960 ⇒ 00:04:44.050 Uttam Kumaran: like as a get up action. So I can just do that, too, and that way all it would require from us is just like
42 00:04:44.600 ⇒ 00:04:46.350 Uttam Kumaran: pushing Prs there and then
43 00:04:46.680 ⇒ 00:04:50.329 Uttam Kumaran: the job would just pick it up and and execute so we could do that, too. That’s totally fine.
44 00:04:50.330 ⇒ 00:05:14.260 Mitchell Wright: Yeah, probably just start with that and then decide from there, cause it’s super easy to switch over to cloud if we want to do that. But yeah, basically just want to get something up and going. I have a meeting with the CEO at 2 30, if it’s at all possible for you to send over like a very basic like, Hey, we’ll commit to, you know, X number of hours
45 00:05:14.810 ⇒ 00:05:18.883 Mitchell Wright: a week for the next, like 3 to 4 weeks
46 00:05:21.120 ⇒ 00:05:34.769 Mitchell Wright: like, and then I can just run that past them, and like we’ll just kind of get that signed off and 200 bucks an hour and like, maybe, even if it’s I don’t know. Like, what do you guys need from an hour commit for you to be like, okay, let’s do this or.
47 00:05:35.629 ⇒ 00:05:39.219 Uttam Kumaran: We usually don’t do anything less than 10 HA week, just because it’s like.
48 00:05:39.570 ⇒ 00:05:40.460 Mitchell Wright: It’s tough.
49 00:05:40.460 ⇒ 00:05:46.809 Uttam Kumaran: So I can just put, I can even do a minimum. And then you and then or you basically give me a sense of like what you want to do, like.
50 00:05:46.810 ⇒ 00:05:55.539 Mitchell Wright: Yeah, I mean, we’ll commit to 10 HA week, and then it’ll I mean, I’ll take what you can give as far as just getting this up and running with me.
51 00:05:55.540 ⇒ 00:06:04.409 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, cool. So I’ll just say minimum of 10. And then I’ll just outline a couple of the things we need. And then we can talk in slack. So let me get that to you. In the next hour.
52 00:06:04.620 ⇒ 00:06:16.309 Mitchell Wright: Okay, awesome. Thank you. And then and then, yeah, like, my hope is, I run it past him. He’s gonna just be like, sure. Do whatever you need, and then we’ll get that signed and like we could just take off running.
53 00:06:16.600 ⇒ 00:06:24.029 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool. Alright, yeah. And then the core things in terms of like initial steps is just like we would just need Github. And then, yeah, if you can.
54 00:06:24.290 ⇒ 00:06:29.420 Uttam Kumaran: If by any way, you can get us an email under your domain like Brainforge at Stack Blitz.
55 00:06:29.910 ⇒ 00:06:30.490 Mitchell Wright: Okay.
56 00:06:30.490 ⇒ 00:06:31.890 Uttam Kumaran: That way we can.
57 00:06:32.060 ⇒ 00:06:33.589 Uttam Kumaran: I can start to use that for.
58 00:06:33.590 ⇒ 00:06:35.359 Mitchell Wright: Can I just give you Thomas Sack Blitz.
59 00:06:35.360 ⇒ 00:06:36.870 Uttam Kumaran: Or you can give me. It’s on my stack, but.
60 00:06:36.870 ⇒ 00:06:37.500 Mitchell Wright: That’s perfect.
61 00:06:37.973 ⇒ 00:06:42.236 Uttam Kumaran: That way. Everything can be under your yeah stuff.
62 00:06:43.280 ⇒ 00:06:49.030 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, well, I I feel like, if we start in the next day or 2. We can move a lot by Friday, so.
63 00:06:49.280 ⇒ 00:06:55.649 Mitchell Wright: Oh, hell, yeah. Okay, cool man. Okay, get that over to me. I’ll try and get that signed off on today, and then
64 00:06:55.850 ⇒ 00:07:00.089 Mitchell Wright: we’ll just start going. I feel like that’s just gonna be easier.
65 00:07:00.380 ⇒ 00:07:01.120 Uttam Kumaran: Sure. That’s fine.
66 00:07:01.120 ⇒ 00:07:03.579 Mitchell Wright: Just with how things are are going internally here.
67 00:07:03.580 ⇒ 00:07:05.070 Uttam Kumaran: Totally. Okay. Okay.
68 00:07:05.070 ⇒ 00:07:05.970 Mitchell Wright: Okay. Thanks. Man.
69 00:07:05.970 ⇒ 00:07:06.460 Uttam Kumaran: Hi Jason.
70 00:07:06.460 ⇒ 00:07:07.340 Mitchell Wright: Later.
71 00:07:07.340 ⇒ 00:07:08.170 Uttam Kumaran: Talk soon bye.