Meeting Title: Data Engineer Interview (Michael Angelo Suico) Date: 2025-08-01 Meeting participants: Michael Angelo Suico, Awaish Kumar
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1 00:02:28.470 ⇒ 00:02:29.290 Awaish Kumar: Hello!
2 00:02:29.740 ⇒ 00:02:31.880 Michael Angelo Suico: Hi! Kumar, you like.
3 00:02:32.970 ⇒ 00:02:34.190 Awaish Kumar: Hello! How are you?
4 00:02:35.830 ⇒ 00:02:36.889 Michael Angelo Suico: Yeah, I’m doing good.
5 00:02:37.230 ⇒ 00:02:38.269 Michael Angelo Suico: How about you?
6 00:02:40.210 ⇒ 00:02:42.220 Awaish Kumar: I can’t hear you properly like.
7 00:02:47.370 ⇒ 00:02:49.730 Michael Angelo Suico: Oh, wait! Let me just.
8 00:02:53.640 ⇒ 00:02:54.440 Awaish Kumar: Alright.
9 00:02:54.770 ⇒ 00:02:56.459 Awaish Kumar: Did you have network issue.
10 00:02:59.080 ⇒ 00:03:00.880 Michael Angelo Suico: No, I don’t have any network issues.
11 00:03:02.210 ⇒ 00:03:05.309 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I’m getting message from the zoom that
12 00:03:05.895 ⇒ 00:03:13.150 Awaish Kumar: your network bandwidth is low, and so your voice is like cutting out.
13 00:03:16.730 ⇒ 00:03:20.620 Michael Angelo Suico: Oh, okay, I’m just let me change my connection.
14 00:03:21.140 ⇒ 00:03:23.630 Michael Angelo Suico: And then, reconnect.
15 00:03:27.770 ⇒ 00:03:29.140 Michael Angelo Suico: just give me a second.
16 00:03:30.690 ⇒ 00:03:33.500 Awaish Kumar: Is it possible for you to connect to any other.
17 00:05:46.850 ⇒ 00:05:47.650 Michael Angelo Suico: Hi, Ellie!
18 00:05:50.410 ⇒ 00:05:51.190 Michael Angelo Suico: Hello!
19 00:05:51.680 ⇒ 00:05:52.740 Awaish Kumar: Hello. Yeah.
20 00:05:53.240 ⇒ 00:05:54.639 Michael Angelo Suico: Can you hear me now? Hear you.
21 00:05:56.720 ⇒ 00:05:57.480 Awaish Kumar: Hello!
22 00:05:58.320 ⇒ 00:06:00.110 Michael Angelo Suico: Hello! Can you hear me clearly now?
23 00:06:00.350 ⇒ 00:06:06.119 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I was still very low. Care. Is it possible for you to like connect to any other
24 00:06:06.820 ⇒ 00:06:10.149 Awaish Kumar: microphone or something, or like it’s very slow.
25 00:06:11.740 ⇒ 00:06:16.140 Michael Angelo Suico: Oh, okay, are you guys? Change my connection?
26 00:06:16.290 ⇒ 00:06:21.439 Michael Angelo Suico: And I think my microphone. I don’t have any other alternatives right now.
27 00:06:22.750 ⇒ 00:06:27.299 Awaish Kumar: What is it? Maybe just try with without these airports
28 00:06:27.520 ⇒ 00:06:30.139 Awaish Kumar: right now it’s very low, and I can’t.
29 00:06:30.920 ⇒ 00:06:32.799 Awaish Kumar: Here you actually covered it.
30 00:06:34.050 ⇒ 00:06:37.340 Michael Angelo Suico: Sure let me go change my microphone
31 00:06:48.130 ⇒ 00:06:49.190 Michael Angelo Suico: about this one.
32 00:06:51.570 ⇒ 00:06:52.520 Michael Angelo Suico: Hello! Hello!
33 00:07:11.950 ⇒ 00:07:12.710 Michael Angelo Suico: Hello!
34 00:07:13.860 ⇒ 00:07:14.710 Awaish Kumar: No.
35 00:08:12.290 ⇒ 00:08:13.110 Michael Angelo Suico: Hello! Hello!
36 00:08:15.450 ⇒ 00:08:15.830 Awaish Kumar: Hello!
37 00:08:15.830 ⇒ 00:08:22.460 Michael Angelo Suico: I’m sorry, I think. My the driver of my computer for the microphone is missing right now.
38 00:08:24.110 ⇒ 00:08:25.489 Michael Angelo Suico: It’s not working.
39 00:08:30.755 ⇒ 00:08:31.600 Michael Angelo Suico: Hello.
40 00:08:37.299 ⇒ 00:08:37.919 Awaish Kumar: No.
41 00:08:46.550 ⇒ 00:08:48.000 Michael Angelo Suico: No, no, no.
42 00:08:52.730 ⇒ 00:08:53.810 Awaish Kumar: Before me.
43 00:09:06.350 ⇒ 00:09:07.190 Awaish Kumar: long.
44 00:09:10.670 ⇒ 00:09:12.089 Michael Angelo Suico: Hello! How about that one.
45 00:09:14.180 ⇒ 00:09:14.940 Awaish Kumar: From?
46 00:09:15.700 ⇒ 00:09:16.859 Awaish Kumar: Can you hear me.
47 00:09:17.790 ⇒ 00:09:18.980 Michael Angelo Suico: Yes, I can hear you.
48 00:09:20.570 ⇒ 00:09:23.310 Awaish Kumar: Of price was like, it is very
49 00:09:23.450 ⇒ 00:09:26.050 Awaish Kumar: so, maybe try to speak a little bit louder.
50 00:09:26.546 ⇒ 00:09:29.240 Awaish Kumar: Yeah. So how can I pronounce your name?
51 00:09:29.350 ⇒ 00:09:30.580 Awaish Kumar: Mikhail?
52 00:09:32.030 ⇒ 00:09:34.389 Michael Angelo Suico: Hey? You can call me Michael, or Michael.
53 00:09:35.440 ⇒ 00:09:45.990 Awaish Kumar: Michael, okay, so yeah, so like, we are going to talk about.
54 00:09:46.390 ⇒ 00:09:49.900 Awaish Kumar: So this is in this meeting. I’m going to treat myself. And then we are.
55 00:09:50.190 ⇒ 00:09:55.219 Awaish Kumar: and what breakfast does, and then we are going to this one’s more about.
56 00:09:55.500 ⇒ 00:09:57.060 Awaish Kumar: We do, and we’ll talk about.
57 00:09:57.780 ⇒ 00:10:04.560 Awaish Kumar: So I’m my name is avish Kumar, and I’m like kind of general manager here is helpful.
58 00:10:05.660 ⇒ 00:10:14.520 Awaish Kumar: then, for the consulting company we provide data and AI servicing to different plans, industries.
59 00:10:17.180 ⇒ 00:10:20.400 Awaish Kumar: and want to be in work working from.
60 00:10:20.950 ⇒ 00:10:27.309 Awaish Kumar: or people are like working from all over the world. And there is their own.
61 00:10:27.900 ⇒ 00:10:31.230 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, that’s mostly about encode.
62 00:10:31.440 ⇒ 00:10:33.740 Awaish Kumar: So if you can do this yourself, so.
63 00:10:35.170 ⇒ 00:10:36.769 Michael Angelo Suico: Right? So
64 00:10:37.860 ⇒ 00:10:45.659 Michael Angelo Suico: I’m Michael. So previously, I was working with for my data engineering experiences. So I was
65 00:10:46.150 ⇒ 00:10:55.669 Michael Angelo Suico: able to work with different clients already. On my va or freelance.
66 00:10:58.188 ⇒ 00:11:04.890 Michael Angelo Suico: experience. And I was also able to work with our big company, which is Dallas international
67 00:11:05.429 ⇒ 00:11:13.419 Michael Angelo Suico: so my data engineering profession started when I was with accenture. So I have undergone a lot of
68 00:11:13.860 ⇒ 00:11:20.979 Michael Angelo Suico: boot camps regarding data. Engineering practices. And my 1st client was a big
69 00:11:21.260 ⇒ 00:11:24.679 Michael Angelo Suico: telecom company which is located in
70 00:11:25.850 ⇒ 00:11:30.630 Michael Angelo Suico: South Korea, which is, I’m assuming. Yeah. And that’s my 1st project.
71 00:11:31.010 ⇒ 00:11:37.630 Michael Angelo Suico: then. So my most recent one is with Dallas International. So I worked with with
72 00:11:38.437 ⇒ 00:11:46.890 Michael Angelo Suico: I think you know Ryan, Brian Luke. So yeah, he’s my teammate there, and we were able to
73 00:11:48.750 ⇒ 00:11:55.659 Michael Angelo Suico: able to predict all this work work with him, and
74 00:11:56.130 ⇒ 00:12:00.009 Michael Angelo Suico: also delivered all the deliverable in time.
75 00:12:01.530 ⇒ 00:12:04.540 Awaish Kumar: You know. Like, Where are you currently located?
76 00:12:05.740 ⇒ 00:12:07.710 Michael Angelo Suico: I’m sorry I can’t hear you.
77 00:12:08.510 ⇒ 00:12:10.330 Awaish Kumar: Where are you currently located?
78 00:12:11.200 ⇒ 00:12:15.009 Michael Angelo Suico: So I’m currently located in the Philippines. In Lindalao.
79 00:12:18.580 ⇒ 00:12:24.369 Awaish Kumar: So you have, like overall, how many years of experience in data, engineering.
80 00:12:25.662 ⇒ 00:12:31.150 Michael Angelo Suico: Just to count so just to give you a background, I’m also a software developer
81 00:12:31.520 ⇒ 00:12:41.709 Michael Angelo Suico: software develop development engineer vacation. So I was able to work creating websites and other.
82 00:12:45.240 ⇒ 00:12:50.059 Michael Angelo Suico: Yeah, that technology, like, for example, I, I was able to work with
83 00:12:50.590 ⇒ 00:12:53.459 Michael Angelo Suico: Metro bank, which is a local bank here in the Philippines
84 00:12:54.000 ⇒ 00:13:03.119 Michael Angelo Suico: and one of the Big 4. So I I was a back end developer, which is focuses on Java and sequel for our database
85 00:13:03.600 ⇒ 00:13:11.790 Michael Angelo Suico: and for the data engineering. I have already 4 years work experience for data.
86 00:13:13.490 ⇒ 00:13:15.790 Awaish Kumar: Okay? So what time the
87 00:13:17.040 ⇒ 00:13:23.520 Awaish Kumar: like? If you can give me an example of a project like an engineering project
88 00:13:23.740 ⇒ 00:13:25.700 Awaish Kumar: which you are most proud of.
89 00:13:27.430 ⇒ 00:13:34.760 Michael Angelo Suico: Yeah, actually, I am very proud of, for all of the projects that I have handled most, especially
90 00:13:36.078 ⇒ 00:13:47.909 Michael Angelo Suico: with my, I’m freelance, because, my clients are very, even though.
91 00:13:48.926 ⇒ 00:14:06.310 Michael Angelo Suico: yeah. Regarding appreciate what I did. So they asked me to build a dashboard, and from scratch yeah, from from extracting the data from the database or different databases. As to the visualization.
92 00:14:07.310 ⇒ 00:14:08.030 Michael Angelo Suico: Yep.
93 00:14:10.680 ⇒ 00:14:14.159 Awaish Kumar: I couldn’t hear anything like the voice was freaking out.
94 00:14:15.580 ⇒ 00:14:17.029 Michael Angelo Suico: Oh, sorry for that one.
95 00:14:18.600 ⇒ 00:14:26.090 Michael Angelo Suico: If you are free next week we can. I think I will be more prepared.
96 00:14:27.940 ⇒ 00:14:31.560 Awaish Kumar: Sorry I then.
97 00:14:31.750 ⇒ 00:14:32.880 Michael Angelo Suico: Except for this month.
98 00:14:34.520 ⇒ 00:14:43.480 Awaish Kumar: Any like. If you want, like, we can reschedule this time later time. Because alright.
99 00:14:44.330 ⇒ 00:14:46.260 Awaish Kumar: you are cutting out and sorry.
100 00:14:46.710 ⇒ 00:14:48.279 Awaish Kumar: Okay, I can’t understand.
101 00:14:48.780 ⇒ 00:14:49.720 Michael Angelo Suico: Sure. Sure.
102 00:14:50.900 ⇒ 00:14:54.059 Michael Angelo Suico: Sure. Sure, I I can email you for this one. Wait
103 00:14:55.400 ⇒ 00:14:59.350 Michael Angelo Suico: alright. I guess. Remove my camera right now, so that.
104 00:14:59.970 ⇒ 00:15:03.570 Michael Angelo Suico: it will not be interrupted with the bond Internet bond.
105 00:15:04.527 ⇒ 00:15:08.790 Michael Angelo Suico: Yeah. I think it’s much better to reschedule this call.
106 00:15:08.950 ⇒ 00:15:12.130 Michael Angelo Suico: So I can purchase another headset, you know
107 00:15:13.200 ⇒ 00:15:17.080 Michael Angelo Suico: I think it’s not. You cannot hear me clearly right now.
108 00:15:18.464 ⇒ 00:15:25.580 Awaish Kumar: I’m unable to like completely understand? Because, like, when you speak a few of these words or sentences.
109 00:15:26.150 ⇒ 00:15:27.959 Awaish Kumar: we do all like integrated.
110 00:15:28.200 ⇒ 00:15:33.470 Awaish Kumar: I’m just that’s about, and I can’t hear completely what you are saying.
111 00:15:33.810 ⇒ 00:15:36.780 Awaish Kumar: It may be recorded from network issue on your side.
112 00:15:37.160 ⇒ 00:15:47.060 Awaish Kumar: right? Maybe try to reschedule it some dated time. And find yourself a good spot right where we can actually talk. Right?
113 00:15:54.720 ⇒ 00:16:03.220 Awaish Kumar: Okay? Yeah, like, it’s, it’s it’s just because, like, when I when you like, when I want to understand about the project like it’s, it’s just
114 00:16:03.450 ⇒ 00:16:05.510 Awaish Kumar: some of the sentences.
115 00:16:05.700 ⇒ 00:16:07.439 Awaish Kumar: I just miss them because of
116 00:16:07.920 ⇒ 00:16:10.600 Awaish Kumar: it. Just pass this out. So
117 00:16:11.492 ⇒ 00:16:15.730 Awaish Kumar: yeah, it would be nice like for me to understand what really have worked on
118 00:16:15.930 ⇒ 00:16:21.389 Awaish Kumar: and completely understand what they’re saying. I don’t. I need to hear like anything they say.
119 00:16:21.710 ⇒ 00:16:24.880 Awaish Kumar: yeah, maybe we can reschedule it. That would be right.
120 00:16:25.570 ⇒ 00:16:29.349 Awaish Kumar: Okay, okay, sure, no problem.
121 00:16:30.140 ⇒ 00:16:30.730 Awaish Kumar: Thank you.
122 00:16:32.710 ⇒ 00:16:37.390 Awaish Kumar: You can just use same link, all shared by the quality.
123 00:16:37.490 ⇒ 00:16:44.990 Awaish Kumar: We’ll do that 1 2 weeks, probably anytime. But this is like, so like, we have some Internet, like.
124 00:16:45.200 ⇒ 00:16:46.120 Awaish Kumar: good Internet.
125 00:16:50.290 ⇒ 00:16:50.990 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
126 00:16:52.610 ⇒ 00:16:54.960 Awaish Kumar: Thank you. Yeah. See, you soon. Bye.