Meeting Title: Engineering Leads Sync Date: 2025-09-17 Meeting participants: Shreya Chowdhury, Awaish Kumar
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1 00:02:31.660 ⇒ 00:02:32.510 Awaish Kumar: Hello.
2 00:02:33.860 ⇒ 00:02:35.429 Shreya Chowdhury: Hey, how’s it going?
3 00:02:36.700 ⇒ 00:02:38.200 Awaish Kumar: Good. Good evening.
4 00:02:38.940 ⇒ 00:02:40.270 Shreya Chowdhury: It’s going.
5 00:02:40.560 ⇒ 00:02:42.790 Shreya Chowdhury: Trying to get everything organized.
6 00:02:42.980 ⇒ 00:02:55.040 Shreya Chowdhury: I think, since it’s just the two of us, should we just fill out, the Notion doc, and then drop our updates in the Slack channel?
7 00:02:56.850 ⇒ 00:03:01.229 Awaish Kumar: Basically, we can discuss it here.
8 00:03:02.750 ⇒ 00:03:09.999 Awaish Kumar: Last time we dealt with… I am Sam, we did it, like, as a regular meeting, so we
9 00:03:10.470 ⇒ 00:03:15.539 Awaish Kumar: Basically, you can discuss here, share our updates, and maybe give suggestions to each other.
10 00:03:15.820 ⇒ 00:03:17.470 Awaish Kumar: So, like, Thomas…
11 00:03:18.220 ⇒ 00:03:25.569 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, like, we don’t… we should not expect, expect that someone is going to join in every meeting.
12 00:03:25.780 ⇒ 00:03:26.850 Awaish Kumar: survive.
13 00:03:27.720 ⇒ 00:03:30.489 Awaish Kumar: We basically have this meeting so that we
14 00:03:31.700 ⇒ 00:03:34.759 Awaish Kumar: Can give each other some suggestions, some…
15 00:03:38.180 ⇒ 00:03:39.380 Awaish Kumar: What’s just handy.
16 00:03:41.650 ⇒ 00:03:43.740 Awaish Kumar: To improve our engineering.
17 00:03:45.730 ⇒ 00:03:47.020 Awaish Kumar: capability for.
18 00:03:47.400 ⇒ 00:03:48.300 Awaish Kumar: Excellent.
19 00:03:48.680 ⇒ 00:03:49.140 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah.
20 00:03:49.140 ⇒ 00:03:54.350 Awaish Kumar: So I have filled in my part, you can fill in, and then we can go over.
21 00:03:55.210 ⇒ 00:03:56.230 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, that’s fine.
22 00:04:07.040 ⇒ 00:04:16.890 Awaish Kumar: Basically, yeah, after we discuss and we maybe come to some conclusions, we can write it, at the end of this motion page, and…
23 00:04:17.310 ⇒ 00:04:20.540 Awaish Kumar: They’ll share that channel. We wrote them that
24 00:04:20.769 ⇒ 00:04:24.010 Awaish Kumar: That’s what we discussed, that’s what we think,
25 00:04:24.390 ⇒ 00:04:28.849 Awaish Kumar: Should be the next, action items, and then, yeah, he can give his feedback.
26 00:04:30.020 ⇒ 00:04:45.990 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, I think today, I don’t… I don’t have too much to discuss. I’m working on some ad hoc analyses, for insomnia, so that’s my biggest priority for the next couple of days. And then,
27 00:04:46.390 ⇒ 00:04:54.119 Shreya Chowdhury: probably working on wrapping up one of the internal playbooks tickets, but that’s a secondary priority for me.
28 00:04:54.150 ⇒ 00:05:11.379 Shreya Chowdhury: I will go ahead and add the tickets to the engineering manager’s weekly sync, but I think the main thing that Utam wanted to prioritize getting some updates on were the things that he sent for, engineering and for automation and AI.
29 00:05:17.950 ⇒ 00:05:20.710 Shreya Chowdhury: Like, the two things that he sent in the…
30 00:05:21.640 ⇒ 00:05:25.849 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, that’s okay, like, that’s… that’s about OKRs, and .
31 00:05:25.850 ⇒ 00:05:26.570 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah.
32 00:05:27.140 ⇒ 00:05:34.420 Awaish Kumar: I have filled in, so… That will be the part of discussion, and it will go to the U.
33 00:05:34.600 ⇒ 00:05:41.229 Awaish Kumar: pre-slack, but basically here we… I can go further and discuss my things.
34 00:05:41.690 ⇒ 00:05:47.410 Awaish Kumar: So, I have it, like, first of all, if you just open a Notion talk.
35 00:05:47.880 ⇒ 00:05:50.210 Awaish Kumar: It would see my report.
36 00:05:50.370 ⇒ 00:05:54.579 Awaish Kumar: And, like, one other thing is that I want to improve the…
37 00:05:55.740 ⇒ 00:05:59.249 Awaish Kumar: Bug tracking across the different clients.
38 00:06:00.970 ⇒ 00:06:03.409 Awaish Kumar: I have introduced some labels in Eden.
39 00:06:03.530 ⇒ 00:06:05.620 Awaish Kumar: But I want to extend it.
40 00:06:05.810 ⇒ 00:06:08.990 Awaish Kumar: for all the clients. So, for example, for default.
41 00:06:09.890 ⇒ 00:06:16.080 Awaish Kumar: I want to, maybe have your input on, for example, what are different
42 00:06:17.170 ⇒ 00:06:22.230 Awaish Kumar: tickets, like, for example, like, from there, there are some, like, new…
43 00:06:23.830 ⇒ 00:06:36.889 Awaish Kumar: task, like, for example, if I talk about data, we have new dashboard requirements, new model requirement, things like that, but then there are some bugs, like we have an existing pipeline.
44 00:06:37.590 ⇒ 00:06:42.570 Awaish Kumar: And, the data… Basically, sometime, can…
45 00:06:43.090 ⇒ 00:06:49.749 Awaish Kumar: can fail, like, we might have duplicates, we might have, like, an outlier, which basically just
46 00:06:52.240 ⇒ 00:07:03.290 Awaish Kumar: basically overflows the… the revenue or whatever. And for those kind of things, we started adding some levels, so we could… we can categorize, like.
47 00:07:03.610 ⇒ 00:07:10.899 Awaish Kumar: How much new models we are building every week, how much we are spending on reports, how much we are spending on add-on requests.
48 00:07:11.170 ⇒ 00:07:17.019 Awaish Kumar: And how much we are spending on… Bucks which are basically…
49 00:07:17.630 ⇒ 00:07:24.139 Awaish Kumar: Right after the new deployment, so we want to minimize that as well.
50 00:07:24.610 ⇒ 00:07:26.860 Awaish Kumar: To capture all of this, I…
51 00:07:27.140 ⇒ 00:07:35.320 Awaish Kumar: already added a few labels and eaten. So, I don’t know, like, I want to have a similar kind of pattern for
52 00:07:35.420 ⇒ 00:07:44.500 Awaish Kumar: product analytics work as well. For example, by default, you might have some data work, you might have some AI work, and then we have product analytics work.
53 00:07:45.250 ⇒ 00:07:47.810 Awaish Kumar: So, for all the books, like.
54 00:07:48.700 ⇒ 00:07:52.209 Awaish Kumar: To get related debug fixes or things like that, we should…
55 00:07:52.640 ⇒ 00:07:56.159 Awaish Kumar: Think of two labels, and then put it in the…
56 00:07:57.800 ⇒ 00:08:02.009 Awaish Kumar: Linear, and each ticket is basically categorized in one of the
57 00:08:02.220 ⇒ 00:08:08.090 Awaish Kumar: So, at the end of it, you can see how many strengths Fair.
58 00:08:10.210 ⇒ 00:08:13.849 Awaish Kumar: So, it would be nice, if you could just,
59 00:08:14.440 ⇒ 00:08:21.750 Awaish Kumar: Think of those and share your feedback. Share the labels and… and their purpose in the channel.
60 00:08:22.400 ⇒ 00:08:23.050 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah.
61 00:08:23.050 ⇒ 00:08:27.910 Awaish Kumar: We can review it, and then we can put those in the default linear project.
62 00:08:28.520 ⇒ 00:08:34.780 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, do you want to start a dock, or something where you just have, like,
63 00:08:35.100 ⇒ 00:08:41.449 Shreya Chowdhury: Like, a brief description of, like, oh, like, what… which ones we need, and whatever, so that if…
64 00:08:41.809 ⇒ 00:08:43.270 Shreya Chowdhury: You know, we… someone shared…
65 00:08:43.270 ⇒ 00:08:44.949 Awaish Kumar: I, I don’t know, like, Pete.
66 00:08:45.180 ⇒ 00:08:52.690 Awaish Kumar: So… For the product analytics work, I don’t know, like, what we need. I just gave you a full…
67 00:08:52.690 ⇒ 00:08:53.250 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, yeah.
68 00:08:53.690 ⇒ 00:08:55.320 Shreya Chowdhury: But I’m saying that… A lot of it could be…
69 00:08:55.350 ⇒ 00:08:58.779 Awaish Kumar: So, yeah, you can go ahead and create a Notion document.
70 00:08:58.780 ⇒ 00:09:15.309 Shreya Chowdhury: I’m saying if we have one doc with all of the labels for everywhere, then we’ll just have it all in one place so we can all see it, and each of us can individually just… so I can add the labels for product analytics, Sam can add them for AI and automation, but we can just all have it in one doc.
71 00:09:17.910 ⇒ 00:09:20.490 Awaish Kumar: So right now, we don’t have it, that’s what I’m saying, Ben.
72 00:09:20.700 ⇒ 00:09:22.080 Shreya Chowdhury: I know, but I’m.
73 00:09:22.080 ⇒ 00:09:25.120 Awaish Kumar: And we can… we can then go from there.
74 00:09:26.150 ⇒ 00:09:34.120 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, that’s fine, but I think we should probably… if you want to take a second to create that doc, and then just drop it in the channel, then…
75 00:09:34.120 ⇒ 00:09:50.420 Shreya Chowdhury: each of us can take our own section, so I can take the product analytics one, Sam can jump in for, AI and automation, and then anyone else… like, it’ll make it easily shareable, so if anyone else needs to see the labels or see, like, whatever, we can share that link easily.
76 00:09:53.020 ⇒ 00:10:00.800 Awaish Kumar: Okay, how would that come? After, after that,
77 00:10:01.340 ⇒ 00:10:04.669 Awaish Kumar: there is some work on insomnia, where I need,
78 00:10:04.980 ⇒ 00:10:11.070 Awaish Kumar: need to do some optimizations. Okay. So I’m working on with the team to do…
79 00:10:11.340 ⇒ 00:10:15.330 Awaish Kumar: Basically to reduce the effort we are putting in.
80 00:10:15.330 ⇒ 00:10:15.720 Shreya Chowdhury: Okay.
81 00:10:15.720 ⇒ 00:10:17.980 Awaish Kumar: And, yeah.
82 00:10:18.350 ⇒ 00:10:25.729 Awaish Kumar: Then there are some OKRs, basically… Some values throughout.
83 00:10:30.390 ⇒ 00:10:37.769 Awaish Kumar: about, like, engineering and the tickets. So basically, for example, I want to ensure,
84 00:10:38.360 ⇒ 00:10:44.189 Awaish Kumar: 50% of tickets are completed before the due date, and I could see, like, we are not that
85 00:10:45.850 ⇒ 00:10:48.409 Awaish Kumar: I could only see, like, we are only…
86 00:10:48.550 ⇒ 00:10:53.150 Awaish Kumar: 23% of the tickets are being completed on time.
87 00:10:53.360 ⇒ 00:10:56.159 Awaish Kumar: So, we are host on health projects.
88 00:10:57.280 ⇒ 00:11:02.159 Awaish Kumar: So I would just, We’ll push for everyone, like, for…
89 00:11:02.340 ⇒ 00:11:11.819 Awaish Kumar: for myself on Eden, and for you all on default, that all the tickets you are working on hold for your team, for example.
90 00:11:12.150 ⇒ 00:11:17.450 Awaish Kumar: If Henry’s working with you, then… You would be basically…
91 00:11:17.960 ⇒ 00:11:19.490 Awaish Kumar: You should take care of both.
92 00:11:20.010 ⇒ 00:11:27.930 Awaish Kumar: Both of you, like, that… Like, with a better estimation and deadlines, that those tickets are completed on time.
93 00:11:30.340 ⇒ 00:11:31.769 Awaish Kumar: Majority of the time.
94 00:11:32.910 ⇒ 00:11:33.620 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah.
95 00:11:38.540 ⇒ 00:11:41.370 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, so that’s mainly it from my side.
96 00:11:45.170 ⇒ 00:11:49.049 Shreya Chowdhury: Okay, yeah. From my side,
97 00:11:50.060 ⇒ 00:11:55.140 Shreya Chowdhury: I’m working on a lot of insomnia analytics work. There’s a lot of…
98 00:11:55.170 ⇒ 00:12:06.470 Shreya Chowdhury: business insights and questions that they have that, they need answers to, so I’m digging into the data now. There’s some questions that we may not
99 00:12:06.500 ⇒ 00:12:18.669 Shreya Chowdhury: have access to that data yet, so I’m working on determining what we have access to and what’s available. But there’s definitely a lot of questions that can be answered in the meantime with what we have.
100 00:12:18.670 ⇒ 00:12:27.630 Shreya Chowdhury: So I’m working on that. I’ve created some linear tickets for it, so I’m probably just gonna add it to our engineering doc, so we have an update.
101 00:12:28.800 ⇒ 00:12:44.000 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, and I’m working on getting some of that feedback fleshed out by today, because Robert wants to work on a cadence where we have a lot of the stuff done by Wednesday, so we can send updates on Thursday since they don’t work Friday.
102 00:12:48.560 ⇒ 00:12:49.360 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
103 00:12:50.850 ⇒ 00:12:52.919 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, that’s pretty much it from my end.
104 00:12:53.310 ⇒ 00:13:01.940 Awaish Kumar: Like, how… this, like… how you are… I don’t know how much you have spent your time with Henry?
105 00:13:02.210 ⇒ 00:13:04.779 Awaish Kumar: If you can grab the album…
106 00:13:05.610 ⇒ 00:13:15.710 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, so I’m planning on… I’m planning on looping Henry in on a lot of the analytics work. Right now, Casey is… has some automation work there, but I think…
107 00:13:15.720 ⇒ 00:13:30.919 Shreya Chowdhury: I’m going to loop Henry in so that we can be meeting weekly and talking about, eventually, the goal is to have me and him on product analytics for basically every client, so we’ll be plugged in to, all of those spaces.
108 00:13:34.210 ⇒ 00:13:36.809 Awaish Kumar: So, I haven’t met him yet.
109 00:13:37.040 ⇒ 00:13:49.999 Shreya Chowdhury: I have met Henry. We haven’t, met this week to discuss Insomnia, but I’m going to sync with him, and then, he’s working on some default stuff today, but…
110 00:13:50.120 ⇒ 00:14:04.449 Shreya Chowdhury: once we get a chance to sync, I want to set up some time for us to meet regularly every week. I think we’ll probably just add it to our… we have a stand-up Tuesdays and Thursdays, me, Justin, and Casey, so I’ll probably just add him to that so that we have it.
111 00:14:08.010 ⇒ 00:14:16.020 Awaish Kumar: For insomnia, I’ve already requested to join as well, but apart from that,
112 00:14:16.650 ⇒ 00:14:17.420 Shreya Chowdhury: Okay.
113 00:14:17.420 ⇒ 00:14:20.509 Awaish Kumar: That’s… what Casey’s doing is mainly the…
114 00:14:21.520 ⇒ 00:14:24.720 Awaish Kumar: Automation or other, like, manual filling of some sheets.
115 00:14:24.720 ⇒ 00:14:25.480 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah.
116 00:14:25.480 ⇒ 00:14:27.590 Awaish Kumar: But that’s,
117 00:14:28.390 ⇒ 00:14:34.990 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, that’s… yeah, I don’t… like, it’s not related to product analytics, but I don’t know how much
118 00:14:35.200 ⇒ 00:14:39.879 Awaish Kumar: Is there for product analytics, and maybe have any… you can loop in the analytics on that.
119 00:14:41.860 ⇒ 00:14:42.520 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah.
120 00:14:42.520 ⇒ 00:14:53.350 Awaish Kumar: Like, do you need his time? How much time will you need him? How much do you need of his time? Because he’s also working on Eden and Paul.
121 00:14:53.750 ⇒ 00:15:13.720 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, exactly. So I don’t want to pull him in unless, like, I have something significant that I need his help on. It’s more like when Utam and I last chatted, he said ideally we would be plugged into product analytics of every team. If there’s nothing for him to do, then I don’t want to be pulling him off of other things that he should be spending his time on.
122 00:15:15.610 ⇒ 00:15:21.269 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, it’s not about… yeah, like… like, I think Utam wanted you,
123 00:15:22.340 ⇒ 00:15:30.629 Awaish Kumar: To be not just, like, executed on one client, but overall, like, oversee the… Word of analytics for now.
124 00:15:30.830 ⇒ 00:15:35.489 Awaish Kumar: How he’s… maybe how he’s doing on other things, or… I don’t know, maybe…
125 00:15:35.780 ⇒ 00:15:40.920 Awaish Kumar: what I understood, that was the utam’s… intention.
126 00:15:43.000 ⇒ 00:15:43.690 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah.
127 00:15:43.920 ⇒ 00:15:50.260 Awaish Kumar: That’s what I was asking, maybe you… if you are looking… maybe spending, maybe, maybe 30 minutes to see
128 00:15:50.450 ⇒ 00:15:59.320 Awaish Kumar: how forward are trees and other things are very good to maybe suggest some… Optimizations or improvements.
129 00:16:01.270 ⇒ 00:16:01.980 Shreya Chowdhury: Here we go.
130 00:16:05.230 ⇒ 00:16:06.520 Awaish Kumar: Okay, damn.
131 00:16:07.910 ⇒ 00:16:10.590 Awaish Kumar: That’s it, so yeah, I don’t think there’s…
132 00:16:10.750 ⇒ 00:16:16.220 Awaish Kumar: I filled mine, you can fill that in, so I can basically share that doc.
133 00:16:16.440 ⇒ 00:16:19.329 Awaish Kumar: In the channel, along with,
134 00:16:19.660 ⇒ 00:16:24.210 Awaish Kumar: Google Sheets, so for Tom and Sam to… equivalent.
135 00:16:25.290 ⇒ 00:16:27.460 Shreya Chowdhury: Yeah, okay, sounds good.
136 00:16:29.150 ⇒ 00:16:30.710 Awaish Kumar: Okay, good.
137 00:16:31.150 ⇒ 00:16:31.870 Shreya Chowdhury: Bye.