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Parental LOA Plan

Leave Plan overview

6 Weeks out (Tentatively anytime starting April 20th)

8 Weeks in (Tentatively from June 2nd - August 1st)

6 Weeks out (Early August to Mid September)

I’ve scheduled my leave to ensure I can contribute to Q2/Q3 quarterly planning, including breaking down planning into actionable tasks and assignments. The day-to-day execution will then be managed by the respective technical leads while I’m gone for the paternity leave

Things to consider

Teams

I currently line manage Data Platform, Push and Video. Below are the new point of contacts for these teams

Data Platform - Scott Lam (New Hire) /

@James Schefter

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Push -

@Javier Buzzi

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Video -

@Joshua Logue

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@James Schefter

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I manage the leads for Messaging and ML

No changes here.

@Mark Stern

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and

@Prashanth Subbiah

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will continue to lead these teams respectively

Admin

Reporting structure

If you are directly reporting to me, You will be reporting to

@James Schefter

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for when I am gone during vacation. This affects Video team and Data Platform Team (Until Scott Joins on April 28th)

Q1 Reviews

I did not get to finish Q1 reviews on time. I have raw notes and if I couldn’t get them done before I’m gone I’ll get them done by end of June. Apologies for this delay. Rest assured I have notes on all my reports accomplishments, learning and growth areas.

Check-ins

represented fairly and well.

Meetings

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@Mark Stern

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will lead the DP/ML/DS/PM meeting on Monday’s

1:1’s will be paused until I’m back. Please feel free to put something on your skip levels calendar to meet at least once when I am gone.

Daily standups

Data Platform - Continues to meet everyday at noon EST.

Daily work updates are done as comments on the respective Jira ticket assigned to individuals

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@Aakash Jaswal

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and

@Jaison Jose

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to meet everyday until Scott joins and then meet as a team after that

AV Streaming - Continues to meet everyday at 1:PM EST

Add your daily updates as comments to the Jira tickets you are working on.

PUSH

⁠

@Javier Buzzi

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- Please meet with the video team starting Monday April 21st. I’ve renamed the standup to represent video/push since Josh and you are the only two engineers for push currently and Josh overlaps with video heavily

Add your daily updates as comments to the Jira tickets you are working on.

Action Items

Apart from the assigned action Items through sprint and team work below are the other outstanding action items

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@James Schefter

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Transfer direct reports to yourself or another person of your choosing and request HR to move them in HiBob.

Currently it’s

@Javier Buzzi

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@Joshua Logue

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@Grzegorz Gronkowski

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@Aakash Jaswal

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@Mark Stern

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@Prashanth Subbiah

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@Aaron Mascaro

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and

@Jaison Jose

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Give access permissions to Scott Lam for the Engineering leadership Coda doc

add scott to leadership meetings

Move

@Aakash Jaswal

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and

@Jaison Jose

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to Scott when he is ready

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@Javier Buzzi

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- Create new epics on Push board for premium private show work along with issues.

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@Ryan Chalman

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- Will work with Design on PPP+ and update Josh when the PRD is ready along with the design

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@Joshua Logue

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- Manage LL HLS rollout working with

@William Hector

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and

@Ryan Chalman

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@Jaison Jose

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Create tickets for Scott Lam based on the Sprint goals assigned for him in DE Board

I’ve added Scott to team meetings and DP Backlog Grooming meetings. If I have missed any other meetings please add him to that.

Video

Admin

Meetings

1:1’s

Please meet with

@James Schefter

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at least once a Month if not more.

Daily standups

Team will continue to meet every day on the scheduled time along with

@Javier Buzzi

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to discuss both video and Push related work.

Reporting Structure

Team will report to James during the period of my absence

Vacations and PTO’s will be approved by James

Other

If you have a conference request reach out to James

Projects

LL HLS

⁠

@Joshua Logue

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will be the point person on the engineering side for this. Below are his primary tasks for the next two sprints regarding LL HLS

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AV Sprint 10⁠

Rollout CMAF and LL HLS and monitor post release

AV Sprint 11

Address any fallouts from LL HLS release (if needed)

Rollout Plan

Rolling out CMAF -

@William Hector

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is working on this as of - April 17th

Rolling out LL HLS to logged in users using perform -

@Ryan Chalman

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will take point on this

Ensuring appropriate events are being captured in snowflake for testing and reporting -

@Ryan Chalman

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will take point on this

Monitoring LL HLS rollout

⁠

@Joshua Logue

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will take lead on this with help from Devops. If there is any backend work that needs to be done

@Grzegorz Gronkowski

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will prioritize it over Private C2C.

Private C2C / F2F / WebRTC

⁠

@Joshua Logue

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will be the point person on the engineering side for F2F

Q2 Execution plan

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AV Sprint 10⁠

(ends Apr 28th) - Unit Testing, Video Player integration - MVP Demo guide update

Fix all issues pertaining to video player Integration with Webrtc -

@Joshua Logue

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@Grzegorz Gronkowski

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Finish unit testing for Room logic and authentication -

@Grzegorz Gronkowski

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AV Sprint 11⁠

(ends may 12th) - Map WebRTC Proxy servers to Origin/Edge servers and Start Observability work

Map WebRTC Proxy servers to Origin/Edge servers -

@Grzegorz Gronkowski

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Observability - player integration -

@Joshua Logue

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AV Sprint 12⁠

(ends May 26th) - Handle Compliance, Finish observability, Start design updates

Compliance -

@Grzegorz Gronkowski

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Design Updates -

@Joshua Logue

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- Need to create epics and tickets based on PRD. We can pull this up before observability if the design work is completed in early May.

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AV Sprint 13⁠

(ends 9th June) - Finish design updates and prepare for deployment in production

Design updates -

@Joshua Logue

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Prepare for Deployment -

@Grzegorz Gronkowski

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- Work with Devops and

@William Hector

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closely

Glossary

Links

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Sprint Backlog⁠

- Created and allotted tickets for the next 4 sprints

go/streaming - for any team related information

Data Platform

Refer to

Q2 roadmap⁠

for quick view on Priorities, assignments and Jira links pointing to below assignments.

Admin

Meetings

1:1’s

1:1’s will be suspended until June 2nd week. However I encourage everyone to meet with James at least once when I am gone.

Scott will start meeting with

@Jaison Jose

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and

@Aakash Jaswal

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starting from the 3rd week of his onboarding.

Daily Standup’s

Aakash and Jaison to lead daily standups for the first two weeks. It’s up to Scott beyond that on how he wants to run daily standups.

Reporting Structure

Team will report to James until he move Aakash and Jaison to Scott Lam

Vacations and PTO’s will be approved by James

Other

If you have a conference request reach out to James

Priority Framework

Use this framework to prioritize incoming work.

For The Team

Data Intake requests for P0 projects from PM’s

Data Intake requests for P0 initiatives from Data Science

Modelling (

@Jaison Jose

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and Scott)

KPI Dashboard Phase 2

Infrastructure (

@Aakash Jaswal

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and Scott)

Snowflake PII Layer

Terraform Upgrade

Meltano Migration

Data Lifecycle management in S3

Accessibility and collab (

@Jaison Jose

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and Scott)

DBT for Bayside (Check if this is still needed)

DBT for Volume - Scott Lam

Maintenance (

@Jaison Jose

⁠

and Scott)

Transient to permanent DBT Models

Other

Scott Onboarding plan

Scott Lam will be the new Lead for Data Platform team.

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Here⁠

is the onboarding checklist for Scott to ramp up with the team and the org

Meetings are already set on calendar for Scott

Added to Stand-ups starting Wednesday August 20th

Added to Data Analytics Review meetings and stakeholder meetings starting the second week after onboarding

Data Platform walkthrough meetings are scheduled with

Aakash - August 20th

Jaison - August 20th

First week sync up with James is set for Friday - August 22nd

Q2 Execution Plan

DE Sprint 11 (Ends on 28th April) -

@Aakash Jaswal

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is out for a week in this sprint

Finish Dudes -

@Jaison Jose

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Finish Runbooks and documentations -

@Aakash Jaswal

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@Jaison Jose

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Please finish this and have it ready before Scott Joins

Finish requirements gathering for KPI - Viewer Funnel -

@Jaison Jose

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Transient to Permanent Tables -

@Jaison Jose

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Identify top critical tables

Chose the method to transfer (Time, compute, cost)

DE Sprint 12 (Ends on 12th May) -

@Aakash Jaswal

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is out for a week in this sprint. We also onboard Scott to the team.

Terraform upgrade -

@Aakash Jaswal

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Upgrade terraform to at least version 0.85

KPI Dashboard Phase 2 -

@Jaison Jose

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Create necessary models for Viewer Acquisition and Viewer Return PII

start Data Ingestion into PII account -

@Jaison Jose

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Scott Onboarding - Scott

Finish HiBob onboarding - First 2 days

Finish Data Platform projects, process and schematics onboarding - End of Week 2

DE Sprint 13 (ends on 26th May)

Terraform Upgrade -

@Aakash Jaswal

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upgrade to the most recent version of Terraform if not to the version closest

KPI Dashboard Phase 2 -

@Jaison Jose

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Create models for Token Spend and Creator RPM

Transient to Permanent tables -

@Jaison Jose

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Complete transfer of 10 largest tables

Scott Onboarding Week 3/4 - Scott

Complete at least on intake requests for NR

Work with Jaison in completing at least one or more models for KPI Phase 2

Review PII layer plan/implementation in snowflake

Review terraform upgrade

DE Sprint 14 (Ends on 9th June)

Ingestion & Pipeline -

@Jaison Jose

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Finish Similar Web and Shopify API Ingestion. Extended goal - Reddit ingestion

Accessibility & Collab -

@Aakash Jaswal

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Set up DBT instance for Bayside

Maintenance -

@Aakash Jaswal

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Set up Data Lifecycle policy in S3

Scott Onboarding Week 5/6 - Scott

Handle all data intake requests from stakeholders

Work with Aakash and set up DBT instance for Volume

Create a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat) document with initial thoughts on Data Platform.

Glossary

Links

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Scott Onboarding checklist with deliverables⁠

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DE Sprint Board⁠

- Next 3 sprints are created with updated goals

go/data - for team operations, documentations and OKR reports

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Data Platform schematics diagram⁠

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Onboarding checklist⁠

for Scott - cc

@Mark Stern

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@James Schefter

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Push

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Sprint Board⁠

- We haven’t used this board yet. Will be starting on April 21st.

@Javier Buzzi

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and

@Joshua Logue

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will be the owners of this board until I return

⁠

@Javier Buzzi

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- is the point person for Push/Premium Private shows/Private shows

This is not accounted for in Q2 Planning but Javier will be back on Monday April 21st and will be start working on 3 main tasks

Q2 Execution Plan

Sprint 1 - Finish token credit updates for Private shows

Sprint 2 - Update ID creation logic for private shows

Sprint 3 - Investigate and update push service features (if any) to ensure premium C2C can be deployed smoothly.

PLEASE INVOLVE

@Ryan Chalman

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before rolling out any private show changes

Meetings

⁠

@Javier Buzzi

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ML/Data

Between

@Mark Stern

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, and

@Brian Mulford

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they have this handled. Please reach out to them if you have any queries

Additionally I’ve tasked

@Aaron Mascaro

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with a C4 architecture model for Rec AI and everything ML. The goal of this task to have a good handle of the current ML systems, share that with entire engineering org for transparency. This will help us understand

What the current gaps are from the Engineering side in reaching Brian’s continued vision

Where to continue to invest in ML as we scale towards more ambitious goals.

Messaging

Reach out to

@Prashanth Subbiah

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for any Messaging related questions

⁠

@Prashanth Subbiah

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will work with Alex on

Coming up with clear expectations on what can be done in Q2 &

Share that with the leadership team (if the scope changes)

Prashanth will also work with the team and change the code review process to ask for reviewers to check out the review branch and test it before accepting the MR.

Other Tasks

Evgenii

Conference presentation

Subham

Subham has

Action Items

James

Admin

Transfer direct reports to yourself or another person of your choosing and request HR to move them in HiBob. Currently it’s

@Javier Buzzi

⁠

@Joshua Logue

⁠

@Grzegorz Gronkowski

⁠

@Aakash Jaswal

⁠

@Mark Stern

⁠

@Prashanth Subbiah

⁠

@Aaron Mascaro

⁠

and

@Jaison Jose

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Data Platform

Give access permissions to Scott Lam for the Engineering leadership Coda doc

Add Scott to leadership meetings

Move

@Aakash Jaswal

⁠

and

@Jaison Jose

⁠

to Scott when he is ready

Meet with Scott at the end of First week - Meeting already scheduled

Review Scotts

Onboarding plan⁠

if needed

Schedule 1:1’s with Data Platform teams (at least once a month)

Schedule 1 Month review meeting on May 26 with Scott if needed and see how he is progressing towards meeting his

Month 1 deliverables⁠

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Video

Schedule 1:1’s with Video team if needed (at Least once a month)

Follow up with

@Joshua Logue

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for LL HLS release by April28th if there is no movement

Follow up with

@Grzegorz Gronkowski

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on WebRTC updates by May 15th and see if we are making progress as per

this⁠

plan

Push

Meet with Javier by May 15th and check on his progress for

PUSH initiatives⁠

Messaging

Follow up with Prashanth on how new code review expectations (Reviewers to checkout the actual PR and test in their local machine) for engineers is going and whether it’s helping to catch bugs earlier.

Other

Follow up with Evgenii on his conference talk request

Follow up with Shubham on his Datadog dashboard organization

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