Meeting Title: Data Service Standup Date: 2026-01-12 Meeting participants: Awaish Kumar, Mustafa Raja, Demilade Agboola, Ashwini Sharma, Rico Rejoso, Elizah, Uttam Kumaran, Elizah Joy
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1 00:02:08.000 ⇒ 00:02:08.620 Awaish Kumar: Right?
2 00:02:08.759 ⇒ 00:02:09.809 Mustafa Raja: How was your weekend?
3 00:02:10.600 ⇒ 00:02:12.030 Awaish Kumar: It was good. How about you?
4 00:02:12.270 ⇒ 00:02:13.660 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, good.
5 00:02:14.170 ⇒ 00:02:15.940 Mustafa Raja: I ain’t got time to recover.
6 00:02:16.870 ⇒ 00:02:18.050 Awaish Kumar: Okay, huh.
7 00:02:19.160 ⇒ 00:02:21.889 Awaish Kumar: Still feeling great, good now?
8 00:02:22.050 ⇒ 00:02:22.780 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
9 00:02:43.470 ⇒ 00:02:44.639 Awaish Kumar: How you doing?
10 00:03:50.760 ⇒ 00:03:51.530 Awaish Kumar: Understood.
11 00:05:44.050 ⇒ 00:05:47.319 Awaish Kumar: Okay, I think we can start,
12 00:05:48.330 ⇒ 00:05:53.319 Awaish Kumar: So, yeah, I would like to start with the… Magic Spoon.
13 00:05:54.270 ⇒ 00:05:55.570 Awaish Kumar: And delete it.
14 00:05:55.790 ⇒ 00:06:00.189 Awaish Kumar: in the last week, like, I see in the…
15 00:06:00.530 ⇒ 00:06:07.820 Awaish Kumar: linear boat, the status is, like… They’re similar to the… What we saw last week?
16 00:06:11.210 ⇒ 00:06:17.150 Ashwini Sharma: No, there is a… I think there is a new ticker that I’ve added for myself, which is auditing
17 00:06:17.620 ⇒ 00:06:22.459 Ashwini Sharma: Auditing the pipeline that Data that I had loaded, yeah.
18 00:06:22.460 ⇒ 00:06:23.080 Demilade Agboola: Yeah.
19 00:06:24.510 ⇒ 00:06:27.790 Ashwini Sharma: And then, the,
20 00:06:27.950 ⇒ 00:06:36.830 Ashwini Sharma: It’s not really clear right now, but there will be some tasks for Demulade for optimization of the models that have been identified to take.
21 00:06:37.370 ⇒ 00:06:39.400 Ashwini Sharma: Longer time to execute.
22 00:06:39.950 ⇒ 00:06:41.320 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, they’re dead as well.
23 00:06:41.590 ⇒ 00:06:43.230 Ashwini Sharma: Oh, okay, it’s that already.
24 00:06:45.300 ⇒ 00:06:51.829 Awaish Kumar: Okay, so for the… like, last week we discussed that we will deliver the audit, and we will deliver the pipeline.
25 00:06:52.260 ⇒ 00:06:55.419 Ashwini Sharma: Yes. So, basically, both of them are…
26 00:06:55.820 ⇒ 00:07:02.619 Ashwini Sharma: Deliver the pipeline means deliver the data that comes out of the pipeline. It’s not that the data changes daily.
27 00:07:02.740 ⇒ 00:07:05.330 Ashwini Sharma: The data changes once a month.
28 00:07:06.420 ⇒ 00:07:13.100 Ashwini Sharma: So, we have the latest data, as of, as of yesterday, or last week, right?
29 00:07:13.440 ⇒ 00:07:28.810 Ashwini Sharma: there is a new data that will come up sometime this month, during the middle of the month, so maybe January 15th, or something like that. That time, we’ll run the pipeline again, but yeah, there are some dependencies, especially on the owner access, because of which we cannot deploy the pipeline.
30 00:07:29.290 ⇒ 00:07:32.039 Ashwini Sharma: And neither can we do some DBT stuff, yeah.
31 00:07:33.170 ⇒ 00:07:36.639 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, Demi, like, if you wanna go on, like.
32 00:07:37.800 ⇒ 00:07:41.469 Awaish Kumar: On, like, how the client was feeling, or stuff like that.
33 00:07:42.270 ⇒ 00:07:57.009 Demilade Agboola: To be fair, I think they’re actually very impressed with what we’ve done so far. We’re moving faster than they can keep up, so they’re constantly telling us, like, this week, the major blocker or the major concern about this week is if we will get…
34 00:07:57.150 ⇒ 00:08:08.140 Demilade Agboola: they can’t be able to meet our access, issues and access requests in time. So, if we’re not able to meet our targets this week, the major risk is that they didn’t give us access in time, so…
35 00:08:08.390 ⇒ 00:08:14.610 Demilade Agboola: We’re much faster than I think they expected us to be, and we’re able to show
36 00:08:14.930 ⇒ 00:08:18.170 Demilade Agboola: And answered the questions that they have for us. Okay.
37 00:08:19.050 ⇒ 00:08:27.950 Awaish Kumar: And, yeah, in terms of this week, or, like, all these three tickets are the ones which you need to finish by end of week.
38 00:08:29.120 ⇒ 00:08:29.740 Demilade Agboola: the majority…
39 00:08:29.740 ⇒ 00:08:30.080 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah.
40 00:08:30.080 ⇒ 00:08:33.470 Demilade Agboola: The major targets are we want to be able to QA the data.
41 00:08:33.600 ⇒ 00:08:41.110 Demilade Agboola: Definitely, and if we’re able to get access, yes, we want to start working on the pipeline and implementing it in production, like the Prefect pipeline.
42 00:08:41.460 ⇒ 00:08:54.719 Demilade Agboola: Okay. I want to send over the full dbt audit doc, and then for the dbt runtime, again, that’s also dependent on, write access to dbt, because we only have view access only, so…
43 00:08:54.920 ⇒ 00:08:59.440 Demilade Agboola: Once we can get access, then yes, we will be able to try to…
44 00:09:01.010 ⇒ 00:09:03.890 Demilade Agboola: Give them the outfit they need for this week.
45 00:09:04.850 ⇒ 00:09:09.579 Awaish Kumar: Okay, so, like… like, the status is blocked, then, for these…
46 00:09:09.950 ⇒ 00:09:10.790 Demilade Agboola: For now.
47 00:09:11.440 ⇒ 00:09:15.549 Demilade Agboola: Yes, for optimizing dbt, as well as, creating the
48 00:09:15.780 ⇒ 00:09:18.660 Demilade Agboola: The pipeline in production, the prefix pipeline in production.
49 00:09:18.660 ⇒ 00:09:19.000 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
50 00:09:19.000 ⇒ 00:09:21.389 Demilade Agboola: We need redshift access and preferred access.
51 00:09:21.970 ⇒ 00:09:30.700 Ashwini Sharma: Hold on a second, one second. One question, Demi, I… is it blocked because we don’t have Redshift access, or is it blocked because we don’t have dbt cloud access?
52 00:09:31.740 ⇒ 00:09:33.640 Demilade Agboola: for optimizing?
53 00:09:33.640 ⇒ 00:09:34.430 Ashwini Sharma: Yes.
54 00:09:35.040 ⇒ 00:09:43.719 Demilade Agboola: We don’t have… so the access we have to dbt Cloud is viewer access, so we don’t have any write access. I can’t change any of the code. I can only see…
55 00:09:43.840 ⇒ 00:09:48.840 Demilade Agboola: Like, even now, when I look at the code, I’m looking at the code in GitHub, I can’t see the code in dbt Cloud.
56 00:09:48.840 ⇒ 00:09:57.449 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, so what we can do is… Okay, we can discuss this offline, yeah, because I have a trick over here, yeah.
57 00:09:59.120 ⇒ 00:10:05.330 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, apart from that, we have Hira. I actually just contacted Greg on…
58 00:10:05.530 ⇒ 00:10:09.949 Awaish Kumar: And to see, like, where the status is for SOWs, and…
59 00:10:11.150 ⇒ 00:10:13.530 Awaish Kumar: When we can deliver that to the client.
60 00:10:13.640 ⇒ 00:10:16.520 Awaish Kumar: Apart from that, there’s nothing of this kind.
61 00:10:19.290 ⇒ 00:10:23.520 Awaish Kumar: for CTA this week, do… Do we have any meetings or anything?
62 00:10:23.850 ⇒ 00:10:28.319 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna send an email out, yeah, I’m gonna send an email today.
63 00:10:29.570 ⇒ 00:10:30.240 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
64 00:10:31.420 ⇒ 00:10:31.800 Uttam Kumaran: Nothing.
65 00:10:31.800 ⇒ 00:10:32.420 Ashwini Sharma: Yes.
66 00:10:32.620 ⇒ 00:10:44.619 Ashwini Sharma: So, CTA, I started working on that report today, and then realized that the data that Catherine had shared was a bit messed up, which I had loaded in Snowflake.
67 00:10:44.800 ⇒ 00:11:03.400 Ashwini Sharma: Messed up in the sense that she had shared multiple CSV files, and like, one table is having multiple CSV files, right? And that… those CSV files are messed up, like, the columns are not in order, the number of columns are not the same, the name of columns are not the same. So, and these are really huge files, 150MB each, right?
68 00:11:03.550 ⇒ 00:11:11.230 Ashwini Sharma: So, I… today, I had to work, to rectify that problem, merge the column names as similar as it can get.
69 00:11:11.390 ⇒ 00:11:17.589 Ashwini Sharma: And, I’ve loaded the data again, I’ll start working on the report that, that was member engagement report.
70 00:11:18.040 ⇒ 00:11:18.760 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
71 00:11:18.950 ⇒ 00:11:31.599 Awaish Kumar: Then we have an element. So basically, I have created a few work streams here, and then all the two rules which I shared. In Slack, I have, like, created a ticket for them.
72 00:11:31.890 ⇒ 00:11:33.489 Awaish Kumar: In this.
73 00:11:34.030 ⇒ 00:11:36.070 Awaish Kumar: So, we have kind of,
74 00:11:36.440 ⇒ 00:11:43.259 Awaish Kumar: some tickets assigned to you, Utam, on the platform maintenance part. So, like, you have to just…
75 00:11:43.360 ⇒ 00:11:48.509 Awaish Kumar: You were saying you would create a trial, ask for a trial of Omni for Element?
76 00:11:48.870 ⇒ 00:11:56.610 Uttam Kumaran: Yes. Yeah, so I can… I can kick that off today. The biggest thing I’m gonna… so I’ll… I can set up the Omni stuff.
77 00:11:56.760 ⇒ 00:12:04.199 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. Yeah, I can set up Omni. I think… I think I honestly also may…
78 00:12:04.530 ⇒ 00:12:10.350 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, we’ll see if I… maybe we want to loop in Mustafa to just help with some Omni stuff?
79 00:12:10.530 ⇒ 00:12:13.370 Uttam Kumaran: But yeah, okay, I can handle that.
80 00:12:13.870 ⇒ 00:12:18.010 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, yeah, for you, just… it is just, like, creating a trial, like, everything.
81 00:12:18.010 ⇒ 00:12:22.689 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I just wanna… I just wanna confirm how long they’re gonna let us do the trial.
82 00:12:22.690 ⇒ 00:12:23.110 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
83 00:12:23.110 ⇒ 00:12:27.270 Uttam Kumaran: Like, if they’d be okay with 2 months, I’ll, I’ll let him know.
84 00:12:27.470 ⇒ 00:12:28.150 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
85 00:12:28.680 ⇒ 00:12:36.569 Awaish Kumar: Okay, and once we know that, we can decide if we want to give JSON, like, access to our instance or their own.
86 00:12:37.750 ⇒ 00:12:39.150 Awaish Kumar: And boom.
87 00:12:40.950 ⇒ 00:12:42.060 Awaish Kumar: What else?
88 00:12:42.250 ⇒ 00:12:47.100 Awaish Kumar: like, so I’m, like, after this meeting, we’ll be focusing on,
89 00:12:47.290 ⇒ 00:12:51.190 Awaish Kumar: And this is… that was, asked by Will.
90 00:12:52.720 ⇒ 00:12:54.489 Awaish Kumar: On the retail side, and yeah.
91 00:12:55.160 ⇒ 00:13:00.819 Awaish Kumar: So, that’s the plan for today, and yeah, is there anything else you want to add?
92 00:13:01.150 ⇒ 00:13:07.749 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I guess I wish… what’s… maybe a kind of side question, like, what’s your overall, like, how do you feel last week, capacity-wise?
93 00:13:07.950 ⇒ 00:13:09.300 Uttam Kumaran: On your stuff.
94 00:13:12.250 ⇒ 00:13:14.029 Awaish Kumar: My own stuff.
95 00:13:14.030 ⇒ 00:13:14.750 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
96 00:13:15.130 ⇒ 00:13:18.720 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I think it was… I, like, I could say I had more…
97 00:13:19.440 ⇒ 00:13:23.360 Awaish Kumar: Apart from Element, I’m… I’m not into, actually.
98 00:13:24.690 ⇒ 00:13:30.829 Awaish Kumar: Like, development on any other… doing development for any of the work, so it was kind of okay.
99 00:13:31.180 ⇒ 00:13:32.120 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.
100 00:13:32.590 ⇒ 00:13:39.489 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’m not… we may… it’s gonna still take me maybe a few weeks to get another AE, so I may…
101 00:13:39.790 ⇒ 00:13:43.630 Uttam Kumaran: Continue to lean on you if we need some backup elsewhere.
102 00:13:43.960 ⇒ 00:13:54.350 Uttam Kumaran: Because Casey… I just put Casey… Casey’s on another client now, and so there’s a couple of updates, but we can talk today, I just wanted to check it out. Yeah, and then otherwise, an element, I think we did good last week, so I’ll prep for the meeting later today.
103 00:13:56.460 ⇒ 00:14:03.080 Awaish Kumar: Okay, we have some, two meetings today, like, with wholesale and… For metrics, okay.
104 00:14:03.990 ⇒ 00:14:04.670 Uttam Kumaran: Correct.
105 00:14:10.360 ⇒ 00:14:14.509 Awaish Kumar: Then, apart from this, we…
106 00:14:17.230 ⇒ 00:14:21.190 Awaish Kumar: We don’t… we don’t have anything on urban stems, right, Demi?
107 00:14:23.460 ⇒ 00:14:27.729 Demilade Agboola: No, nothing new from our understanding. Still just the same Thursday meeting, so…
108 00:14:27.730 ⇒ 00:14:28.390 Awaish Kumar: No.
109 00:14:30.140 ⇒ 00:14:33.050 Awaish Kumar: Okay, and then for default…
110 00:14:36.660 ⇒ 00:14:41.189 Demilade Agboola: Okay, so for default, the…
111 00:14:41.590 ⇒ 00:14:54.779 Demilade Agboola: Client seems pretty… excited. I mean, I’ve talked to a couple of people, Lev is looking forward to what we have to do, Stan is excited by the prospect of what we can get out before the end of January… yeah, before the end of January.
112 00:14:55.260 ⇒ 00:15:02.710 Demilade Agboola: And Caitlin is just accepted with how we work. So, right now, the stakeholders are saying, fine, the goal will be to optimize that.
113 00:15:02.880 ⇒ 00:15:18.539 Demilade Agboola: And then to continue to do that, we’ve been able to talk to the different stakeholders, get what they need, and Mustafa and I have been working together to create a Gantt chart in how we want to execute this, which we will share with the…
114 00:15:19.000 ⇒ 00:15:26.400 Demilade Agboola: Caitlin’s in particular, early this week, so she can give feedback on if we need to reprioritize certain things.
115 00:15:26.610 ⇒ 00:15:30.930 Demilade Agboola: And then, we will be able to execute starting from this week.
116 00:15:32.730 ⇒ 00:15:33.400 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
117 00:15:34.750 ⇒ 00:15:41.599 Mustafa Raja: So, so far, according to the end chart, this is, this is going pretty well.
118 00:15:41.770 ⇒ 00:15:51.330 Mustafa Raja: Apart from that, for the architecture diagram, I might ping… ping you today, Avish, so, just for a little help.
119 00:15:52.160 ⇒ 00:15:54.829 Mustafa Raja: Okay. On Figma? Yeah, that’s pretty much it.
120 00:15:54.830 ⇒ 00:16:00.650 Uttam Kumaran: And Mustafa, you think we’ll be able to present that and the Gantt chart this week to Caitlin, maybe?
121 00:16:00.970 ⇒ 00:16:02.500 Mustafa Raja: The architecture diagram.
122 00:16:02.810 ⇒ 00:16:03.740 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
123 00:16:03.740 ⇒ 00:16:06.739 Mustafa Raja: Yeah. Yeah, I’ll be… I’ll be done with this today.
124 00:16:07.430 ⇒ 00:16:12.669 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, and then, Demi, is a meeting with her on… she’s gonna be… we’re gonna go back to doing Thursdays?
125 00:16:13.340 ⇒ 00:16:24.430 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, so the meeting’s going to be on Thursdays, but I would like to meet her and get, like, audience with her early this week, because I would like to be able to show her, hey, this is the Gantt chart, this is what we want to do.
126 00:16:24.430 ⇒ 00:16:35.860 Demilade Agboola: And then she can, you know, because she has insight into the business, and she can say, hey, I think maybe we need to shift priorities, this is coming too early, or this is more important than this, and we can then use that
127 00:16:35.870 ⇒ 00:16:38.089 Demilade Agboola: So that what we’re attacking is useful.
128 00:16:38.480 ⇒ 00:16:40.480 Demilade Agboola: For the business as a whole.
129 00:16:41.460 ⇒ 00:16:48.630 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, perfect. Yeah, I think I… I gave some feedback, Mustafa, right, on the Gantt chart? Maybe you can send me the second version?
130 00:16:48.630 ⇒ 00:16:49.950 Mustafa Raja: updated that.
131 00:16:49.950 ⇒ 00:16:59.940 Uttam Kumaran: And yeah, if you could just tag me in the EP channel, I’ll do another review today. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Thanks. Demilhade and I will meet today again, because, he met with Stan.
132 00:16:59.940 ⇒ 00:17:05.789 Mustafa Raja: To see if we need to add or change anything else. After that, I’ll ping you.
133 00:17:07.030 ⇒ 00:17:12.269 Awaish Kumar: And on the ABC side, like, we had a blocker of service count keys.
134 00:17:12.510 ⇒ 00:17:13.539 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, still there.
135 00:17:15.819 ⇒ 00:17:18.700 Awaish Kumar: Okay, so we are still requesting access from the client.
136 00:17:19.480 ⇒ 00:17:20.740 Mustafa Raja: Yes.
137 00:17:21.010 ⇒ 00:17:22.880 Uttam Kumaran: I can escalate that today.
138 00:17:23.040 ⇒ 00:17:23.650 Mustafa Raja: Okay.
139 00:17:25.640 ⇒ 00:17:28.990 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, so, yeah, that’s pretty much it.
140 00:17:30.820 ⇒ 00:17:32.040 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
141 00:17:32.440 ⇒ 00:17:33.150 Awaish Kumar: Whoa.
142 00:17:35.780 ⇒ 00:17:36.310 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
143 00:17:36.310 ⇒ 00:17:40.589 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, maybe, Ashwed me, we can book a time to discuss CTA later this week. I’ll grab some time.
144 00:17:41.170 ⇒ 00:17:41.830 Ashwini Sharma: Sure.
145 00:17:42.360 ⇒ 00:17:43.590 Uttam Kumaran: Alright, perfect.
146 00:17:45.360 ⇒ 00:17:46.180 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
147 00:17:46.180 ⇒ 00:17:54.800 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe one other point while we have everybody here. I think, Demi, once you… also tag me on anything you need for the, DBT audit.
148 00:17:55.110 ⇒ 00:18:00.450 Uttam Kumaran: I do wanna review that, and I wanna… I wanna, I wanna take…
149 00:18:01.180 ⇒ 00:18:04.789 Uttam Kumaran: That and create a standard template for dbt audits.
150 00:18:05.030 ⇒ 00:18:09.750 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, dear. So, I know it’s probably, like, this one and Urban Stems are, like, the two of them that we’ve done.
151 00:18:09.970 ⇒ 00:18:19.029 Uttam Kumaran: I kind of want to work… if, like, just tag me whenever on anything, and then I’m gonna work with a ways to turn it into something that we can do more often.
152 00:18:20.300 ⇒ 00:18:21.570 Demilade Agboola: Oh, okay, sounds good.
153 00:18:22.300 ⇒ 00:18:22.870 Uttam Kumaran: Thank you.
154 00:18:24.770 ⇒ 00:18:26.419 Awaish Kumar: Okay, thank you, everyone.
155 00:18:26.770 ⇒ 00:18:27.610 Uttam Kumaran: Thank you!
156 00:18:28.160 ⇒ 00:18:28.710 Mustafa Raja: Thank you.
157 00:18:29.080 ⇒ 00:18:29.780 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, thank you.
158 00:18:29.780 ⇒ 00:18:31.200 Mustafa Raja: Thank you, bye.