Meeting Title: Green Forge EP Weekly Sync Date: 2026-01-15 Meeting participants: Mustafa Raja, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:19:24.300 ⇒ 00:19:25.360 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, dude
2 00:19:29.170 ⇒ 00:19:30.500 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, how’s everything?
3 00:19:31.140 ⇒ 00:19:33.359 Mustafa Raja: Yeah… Good, how are you?
4 00:19:34.670 ⇒ 00:19:37.650 Uttam Kumaran: Good. Busy, but all good.
5 00:19:38.480 ⇒ 00:19:39.380 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
6 00:19:43.660 ⇒ 00:19:46.050 Uttam Kumaran: How about you, Hadi? How’s the… how’s the week going?
7 00:19:47.060 ⇒ 00:19:48.889 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, week’s been good,
8 00:19:49.260 ⇒ 00:19:54.829 Mustafa Raja: I was able to, do the Gantt chart in this week and previous weeks.
9 00:19:55.290 ⇒ 00:20:04.740 Mustafa Raja: Weekly decks, and then… The architecture diagram. So, what’s left, I believe, is…
10 00:20:05.070 ⇒ 00:20:07.129 Mustafa Raja: Coming up with a good notion.
11 00:20:08.070 ⇒ 00:20:09.970 Mustafa Raja: Doc, right?
12 00:20:10.710 ⇒ 00:20:17.349 Mustafa Raja: Or not same, organization. I was thinking of doing, maybe a document for onboarding.
13 00:20:17.640 ⇒ 00:20:23.399 Mustafa Raja: That I am going… that I should maintain as the project goes. What do you think about that?
14 00:20:24.700 ⇒ 00:20:26.670 Uttam Kumaran: I agree, yeah, that’d be great.
15 00:20:27.210 ⇒ 00:20:32.549 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I think, because that’s the… that’s the purpose of the,
16 00:20:32.680 ⇒ 00:20:40.920 Mustafa Raja: That’s the purpose of, EPs holding onto Notion, right? That, at any point, if anyone wants to get onboarded.
17 00:20:41.070 ⇒ 00:20:42.500 Mustafa Raja: They have all.
18 00:20:42.500 ⇒ 00:20:45.430 Uttam Kumaran: Sort of like a… like a project log, almost.
19 00:20:45.430 ⇒ 00:20:49.520 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
20 00:20:51.440 ⇒ 00:20:58.119 Mustafa Raja: With ongoing streams, and then streams that we are done with, and with streams that are canceled, everything.
21 00:20:59.250 ⇒ 00:21:03.809 Uttam Kumaran: I wonder almost if you can use the transcripts and linear tickets and, like…
22 00:21:04.120 ⇒ 00:21:06.449 Uttam Kumaran: To just help you build that, you know?
23 00:21:06.450 ⇒ 00:21:06.840 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
24 00:21:06.840 ⇒ 00:21:08.850 Uttam Kumaran: So that we’re, like, programmatically build it.
25 00:21:09.660 ⇒ 00:21:18.749 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I was thinking the same. I saw… I saw the other day, Casey was talking about that, for, I believe, Element.
26 00:21:19.190 ⇒ 00:21:19.870 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
27 00:21:20.600 ⇒ 00:21:25.649 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so I might… I might look into that also, and see how…
28 00:21:25.650 ⇒ 00:21:25.980 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
29 00:21:25.980 ⇒ 00:21:32.400 Mustafa Raja: that might look like. But I do have a pretty good structure in my head.
30 00:21:32.520 ⇒ 00:21:35.209 Mustafa Raja: That I would want to implement.
31 00:21:35.210 ⇒ 00:21:35.830 Uttam Kumaran: Mmm.
32 00:21:35.830 ⇒ 00:21:39.219 Mustafa Raja: with the EP Leads meeting, I’d want to do that.
33 00:21:40.330 ⇒ 00:21:42.699 Mustafa Raja: So I have something to show.
34 00:21:43.630 ⇒ 00:21:45.110 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay, great, great, great.
35 00:21:45.500 ⇒ 00:21:46.280 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
36 00:21:51.030 ⇒ 00:21:54.909 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I’ve been almost meeting with, Demilade every day.
37 00:21:55.250 ⇒ 00:21:57.109 Uttam Kumaran: Great, okay.
38 00:21:57.560 ⇒ 00:22:02.749 Mustafa Raja: I was, aligning… I believe I’ll also be EPing the…
39 00:22:02.940 ⇒ 00:22:07.720 Mustafa Raja: the work with, Greg, is that correct?
40 00:22:08.330 ⇒ 00:22:08.980 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
41 00:22:09.570 ⇒ 00:22:11.290 Mustafa Raja: Okay, I’ll annoy you then.
42 00:22:14.720 ⇒ 00:22:18.330 Uttam Kumaran: And that’ll be interesting for you to learn the product analytics stuff, too.
43 00:22:18.700 ⇒ 00:22:21.439 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, and Greg is just so smart.
44 00:22:22.120 ⇒ 00:22:25.860 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, he’s great. Demi’s also amazing. Glad you get to work closely with him.
45 00:22:26.720 ⇒ 00:22:32.699 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, super nice and super intelligent, that’s… yeah, it’s good to have him around.
46 00:22:38.480 ⇒ 00:22:44.009 Uttam Kumaran: So tell me, like, how do you think about the new structure, and like, you know, like, how can we,
47 00:22:44.420 ⇒ 00:22:45.940 Uttam Kumaran: How can we be helpful?
48 00:22:46.290 ⇒ 00:22:47.460 Uttam Kumaran: To enable you.
49 00:22:48.270 ⇒ 00:22:49.719 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so…
50 00:22:49.780 ⇒ 00:22:51.700 Uttam Kumaran: I think.
51 00:22:52.400 ⇒ 00:22:59.310 Mustafa Raja: I think for the most part, I’m good. I might struggle with, what’s it called?
52 00:22:59.830 ⇒ 00:23:12.390 Mustafa Raja: Notion, but I guess that’s something I’ll be handling next week, and if I have any questions, I’ll just drop in the Engagement Planner’s channel.
53 00:23:12.520 ⇒ 00:23:14.919 Mustafa Raja: Okay. So far, so far, I feel good.
54 00:23:15.750 ⇒ 00:23:16.420 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
55 00:23:16.710 ⇒ 00:23:28.189 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, the… the… my CSO, Demi, has been very helpful. We’ve been coordinating, especially in the Gantt chart. We’ve been coordinating very closely.
56 00:23:28.620 ⇒ 00:23:31.460 Mustafa Raja: So, we haven’t had hiccups in those terms.
57 00:23:33.680 ⇒ 00:23:34.530 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
58 00:23:35.470 ⇒ 00:23:36.859 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, that’s pretty good.
59 00:23:37.770 ⇒ 00:23:38.390 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
60 00:23:40.480 ⇒ 00:23:44.679 Mustafa Raja: So this new structure, does it… and does it give you more time? .
61 00:23:46.110 ⇒ 00:23:50.280 Uttam Kumaran: Certainly. I mean, it’s not only that, I think clients are getting a better experience.
62 00:23:50.690 ⇒ 00:23:51.560 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
63 00:23:51.850 ⇒ 00:24:05.769 Uttam Kumaran: You know, so time… my time is one thing, but you know me, like, I’ll fill up the time with something else. Yeah. But no, it’s tremendous, dude, this is working really well. I mean, it’s really… kudos to Clarence, he’s, like, the…
64 00:24:06.960 ⇒ 00:24:10.770 Uttam Kumaran: He’s the mad scientist behind this, you know, but…
65 00:24:11.240 ⇒ 00:24:15.730 Uttam Kumaran: We debated a lot of models,
66 00:24:16.070 ⇒ 00:24:19.910 Uttam Kumaran: And you know, and I think we arrived at something that’s working really well.
67 00:24:20.570 ⇒ 00:24:24.029 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I think this is working really well also.
68 00:24:24.480 ⇒ 00:24:28.930 Mustafa Raja: I think this is a good model, to grow… grow with.
69 00:24:30.440 ⇒ 00:24:31.860 Uttam Kumaran: What do you think about, like.
70 00:24:33.160 ⇒ 00:24:38.800 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, I’m interested for you to see the Lilo work, because it’s really interesting what that team is doing there.
71 00:24:39.480 ⇒ 00:24:43.420 Mustafa Raja: Oh yeah, I’ve been… I’ve been keeping up with the updates in the channel.
72 00:24:44.620 ⇒ 00:24:49.130 Mustafa Raja: Good, yeah, and I saw that,
73 00:24:49.240 ⇒ 00:24:54.490 Mustafa Raja: We got upgraded, the contract got upgraded, that’s super nice, right?
74 00:24:56.180 ⇒ 00:24:59.880 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, no, it’s great, it’s awesome. Like, it’s working out super well.
75 00:25:00.160 ⇒ 00:25:00.910 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
76 00:25:01.650 ⇒ 00:25:08.640 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, it’s good to see Pranav, integrated, with the team so quickly, so well.
77 00:25:08.640 ⇒ 00:25:10.079 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, I agree.
78 00:25:11.050 ⇒ 00:25:11.730 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
79 00:25:12.670 ⇒ 00:25:14.640 Mustafa Raja: People take time. He didn’t.
80 00:25:14.640 ⇒ 00:25:15.320 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
81 00:25:15.940 ⇒ 00:25:18.239 Uttam Kumaran: How was your, how was, like, your bandwidth?
82 00:25:19.430 ⇒ 00:25:30.000 Mustafa Raja: My man, yeah, for this week, I’ve been only working on… Default and, ABC.
83 00:25:30.340 ⇒ 00:25:36.169 Mustafa Raja: I think for the next week, I might have much more availability.
84 00:25:36.570 ⇒ 00:25:43.140 Mustafa Raja: Since this week, I, I, I’ve been, working on,
85 00:25:43.340 ⇒ 00:25:46.690 Mustafa Raja: you know, sort of, EP work.
86 00:25:47.580 ⇒ 00:25:57.829 Mustafa Raja: It took most of my time in, for default, and ad hoc stuff, but I, I believe for the next week, I might have…
87 00:25:58.100 ⇒ 00:26:03.799 Mustafa Raja: lighter tasks on default, so I might have availability… Might have availability.
88 00:26:04.390 ⇒ 00:26:05.150 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
89 00:26:05.460 ⇒ 00:26:05.990 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
90 00:26:06.820 ⇒ 00:26:09.919 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, if I don’t have more client stuff, then I may…
91 00:26:10.050 ⇒ 00:26:13.269 Uttam Kumaran: Just want to collaborate with you on internal stuff, you know.
92 00:26:13.270 ⇒ 00:26:14.400 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
93 00:26:15.180 ⇒ 00:26:21.339 Mustafa Raja: I see that Gabe has been making progress. I’ve been… I haven’t been catching up with it.
94 00:26:21.530 ⇒ 00:26:25.660 Mustafa Raja: So I might also want to catch up with what’s going on internally.
95 00:26:26.910 ⇒ 00:26:30.929 Mustafa Raja: I saw that we are moving to railway, is that correct?
96 00:26:32.760 ⇒ 00:26:34.840 Uttam Kumaran: Potentially, yes.
97 00:26:35.460 ⇒ 00:26:44.549 Mustafa Raja: Okay, we might also want to move to Railway for ABC also, because the monorepo has multiple apps in it, and HeroCore doesn’t play good with it.
98 00:26:46.120 ⇒ 00:26:47.270 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay, okay.
99 00:26:47.580 ⇒ 00:26:48.180 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
100 00:26:48.180 ⇒ 00:26:53.100 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I like, I like… I like Railway, you know?
101 00:26:53.510 ⇒ 00:26:53.970 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
102 00:26:53.970 ⇒ 00:26:55.430 Uttam Kumaran: I think it’s been great so far.
103 00:26:56.020 ⇒ 00:27:01.510 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I checked out, checked it out last week, because I saw the, Lilo.
104 00:27:01.760 ⇒ 00:27:12.049 Mustafa Raja: was using that, and I had used it earlier, before I joined Green Forge. I went in, took a look at it again.
105 00:27:12.420 ⇒ 00:27:14.199 Mustafa Raja: You know, pretty good.
106 00:27:18.040 ⇒ 00:27:32.479 Mustafa Raja: These new softwares always come up with, better ways or, solve the pain points that the older infrastructures would have, so it’s nice to see.
107 00:27:32.890 ⇒ 00:27:36.339 Mustafa Raja: I think it… it might be expen… more… more on the expensive.
108 00:27:36.340 ⇒ 00:27:38.829 Uttam Kumaran: Railway? No, no, railway’s less expensive.
109 00:27:39.060 ⇒ 00:27:42.810 Mustafa Raja: Oh, so railway is less expensive than Heroku.
110 00:27:42.810 ⇒ 00:27:43.670 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, dude.
111 00:27:44.210 ⇒ 00:27:45.020 Mustafa Raja: Hmm.
112 00:27:45.260 ⇒ 00:27:46.270 Mustafa Raja: That’s nice.
113 00:27:47.090 ⇒ 00:27:47.710 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
114 00:27:48.570 ⇒ 00:27:56.180 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I thought… I thought, it’s better… better than Euroquin every way. They must be charging more.
115 00:27:57.600 ⇒ 00:28:04.400 Uttam Kumaran: No, it’s just, dude, Heroku’s, people know it. You know, just people know… Know the,
116 00:28:06.620 ⇒ 00:28:10.130 Uttam Kumaran: they just know Heroku, like, the name, you know, so… Yeah, yeah.
117 00:28:10.330 ⇒ 00:28:11.230 Mustafa Raja: You’re right.
118 00:28:37.680 ⇒ 00:28:41.410 Uttam Kumaran: I guess I had a question, I was wondering if you could help me, like, figure out this codex issue.
119 00:28:42.180 ⇒ 00:28:44.570 Mustafa Raja: What issue are we having?
120 00:28:46.180 ⇒ 00:28:48.409 Uttam Kumaran: I was trying to ship a Codex feature.
121 00:28:49.900 ⇒ 00:28:54.249 Uttam Kumaran: And it… it was telling me that, like, we… it wasn’t able to,
122 00:28:55.530 ⇒ 00:28:57.219 Uttam Kumaran: Here, I’ll forward you this.
123 00:28:57.610 ⇒ 00:28:59.100 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, fool with me now.
124 00:29:00.430 ⇒ 00:29:03.819 Mustafa Raja: I’ll dig, take a look at it.
125 00:29:07.850 ⇒ 00:29:10.159 Mustafa Raja: Looks like MPM field, and…
126 00:29:30.390 ⇒ 00:29:32.980 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I’m logging in,
127 00:29:41.920 ⇒ 00:29:49.449 Mustafa Raja: Oh, so it’s… Yeah, 403 is most probably, it does not have permissions to install.
128 00:29:50.620 ⇒ 00:29:52.359 Mustafa Raja: But we can get a dad.
129 00:29:59.850 ⇒ 00:30:01.619 Mustafa Raja: Do you know…
130 00:30:57.970 ⇒ 00:31:00.609 Uttam Kumaran: Dude, I called this guy today who’s literally, like.
131 00:31:01.150 ⇒ 00:31:04.240 Uttam Kumaran: He was, like, wanted us to help build
132 00:31:04.610 ⇒ 00:31:09.149 Uttam Kumaran: Like, an internal, like, master context layer for his company.
133 00:31:09.750 ⇒ 00:31:10.480 Mustafa Raja: Huh?
134 00:31:11.360 ⇒ 00:31:12.690 Mustafa Raja: What’d you think about that?
135 00:31:13.830 ⇒ 00:31:16.910 Uttam Kumaran: I was like, yeah, let’s do it, I’ll do it, we’ll do it.
136 00:31:16.910 ⇒ 00:31:19.350 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, more air work is always nice.
137 00:31:19.350 ⇒ 00:31:21.999 Uttam Kumaran: I said, we’ll do anything, let’s go.
138 00:31:22.000 ⇒ 00:31:22.660 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
139 00:31:24.350 ⇒ 00:31:28.580 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, it’s great to have Sam also, he’s always.
140 00:31:28.580 ⇒ 00:31:29.449 Uttam Kumaran: I agree.
141 00:31:29.450 ⇒ 00:31:33.780 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, he’s always good with the architecture, which is really nice.
142 00:31:36.050 ⇒ 00:31:45.509 Mustafa Raja: Also, I think… also, I think, even with the ideas that I would have, I’d still want to discuss it with someone like Sam or Casey, you know?
143 00:31:46.490 ⇒ 00:31:59.270 Mustafa Raja: get, you know, another set of eyes on how I’m thinking, if I’m thinking correct, and what would they, do in that situation, you know? Sort of come up with the best possible solution, so…
144 00:31:59.410 ⇒ 00:32:01.669 Mustafa Raja: The team really is super nice.
145 00:32:02.430 ⇒ 00:32:04.019 Mustafa Raja: I like, I like it here.
146 00:32:05.640 ⇒ 00:32:15.760 Uttam Kumaran: I’m trying to just add more, like, you’re gonna see there’s a lot of cool, like, Luke is really cool, we… Sheshu just joined on the operations side, he’s good, so there’s some really good people.
147 00:32:16.290 ⇒ 00:32:17.010 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
148 00:32:18.010 ⇒ 00:32:18.680 Mustafa Raja: The country’s.
149 00:32:18.680 ⇒ 00:32:26.260 Uttam Kumaran: I’m glad, I just get to, like, actually, like, try to work, like, on stuff I want to, like fun AI stuff and sales, you know?
150 00:32:26.740 ⇒ 00:32:27.560 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
151 00:32:30.790 ⇒ 00:32:35.230 Mustafa Raja: Okay, I’ll take a look at, how this is working.
152 00:32:35.560 ⇒ 00:32:36.880 Mustafa Raja: the code extreme.
153 00:32:37.250 ⇒ 00:32:41.309 Mustafa Raja: I don’t see a way to redo this…
154 00:32:42.010 ⇒ 00:32:45.889 Mustafa Raja: But I’ll take a look at this, did it off.
155 00:32:47.050 ⇒ 00:32:48.470 Mustafa Raja: This human after sitting there?
156 00:32:54.660 ⇒ 00:32:55.550 Mustafa Raja: Hmm…
157 00:33:40.230 ⇒ 00:33:41.779 Mustafa Raja: How do you define them, Nadine?
158 00:33:43.720 ⇒ 00:33:46.229 Uttam Kumaran: E worked for a company I used to work for.
159 00:33:46.630 ⇒ 00:33:47.779 Mustafa Raja: It’s a competitor.
160 00:33:47.780 ⇒ 00:33:48.230 Uttam Kumaran: competitor.
161 00:33:48.230 ⇒ 00:33:48.820 Mustafa Raja: Romah herself.
162 00:33:49.540 ⇒ 00:33:55.519 Uttam Kumaran: No, I, I, I worked there when that company just started, and he worked after I left.
163 00:33:55.910 ⇒ 00:33:56.550 Uttam Kumaran: I mean…
164 00:33:57.120 ⇒ 00:34:05.509 Uttam Kumaran: he left that company, and he was… we had some… one mutual friend, Neil, who was like, yo, you should talk to Demulata, he’s great. And I said, okay.
165 00:34:07.100 ⇒ 00:34:08.130 Mustafa Raja: Oh, that’s nice.
166 00:34:13.060 ⇒ 00:34:14.709 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, Demblale is super nice.
167 00:35:44.460 ⇒ 00:35:48.919 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’m gonna try to go… just go outside and go work from somewhere, I think.
168 00:35:49.390 ⇒ 00:35:52.959 Uttam Kumaran: Are you taking a look at that issue? I’m gonna try some stuff later today, maybe.
169 00:35:54.030 ⇒ 00:35:59.510 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I’m going to take a look at, this codex thing, maybe in the morning.
170 00:36:00.010 ⇒ 00:36:00.530 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
171 00:36:00.530 ⇒ 00:36:05.090 Mustafa Raja: I’m going to… There’s no intuitive.
172 00:36:05.390 ⇒ 00:36:11.290 Mustafa Raja: We… they have to, you know, redrun the testing or something, so maybe I will…
173 00:36:11.780 ⇒ 00:36:15.130 Mustafa Raja: I’ll ask it to do that again, and see…
174 00:36:15.470 ⇒ 00:36:25.629 Mustafa Raja: where the issue is coming from. I see that there is, there is a tag for internet access is disabled after setup.
175 00:36:26.110 ⇒ 00:36:26.790 Mustafa Raja: You can…
176 00:36:26.790 ⇒ 00:36:27.580 Uttam Kumaran: Oh.
177 00:36:27.580 ⇒ 00:36:29.970 Mustafa Raja: environment settings, so am I just…
178 00:36:29.970 ⇒ 00:36:31.660 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, shit, I didn’t even know.
179 00:36:33.080 ⇒ 00:36:38.589 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, do you want… do you want to try this right now? Or maybe, enable internet and then…
180 00:36:39.780 ⇒ 00:36:42.810 Uttam Kumaran: I can do it, I’ll let you go to bed, I can do it. I’ll try, I’ll try.
181 00:36:44.270 ⇒ 00:36:45.130 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
182 00:36:45.980 ⇒ 00:36:52.940 Mustafa Raja: Oh, or I could do this in the morning, no worries, just let me know.
183 00:36:53.630 ⇒ 00:36:54.679 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, I will…
184 00:36:55.510 ⇒ 00:36:56.260 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
185 00:36:57.780 ⇒ 00:36:59.860 Mustafa Raja: Thanks so much for talking.
186 00:36:59.860 ⇒ 00:37:03.370 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, thank you, dude. I’ll talk to you soon. Appreciate all the hard work.
187 00:37:04.040 ⇒ 00:37:05.130 Mustafa Raja: Thank you!
188 00:37:05.450 ⇒ 00:37:06.670 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, bye.
189 00:37:07.340 ⇒ 00:37:08.280 Mustafa Raja: Have a good day, bye.