Joseph Pyram It. Oh. Can you hear me?

Lucia Hoang Yes. Hi, Joe. How are you?

Joseph Pyram I'm okay. How are you doing? Sorry for you.

Lucia Hoang No, it's all good. All good. How are you doing today?

Joseph Pyram I'm okay. Okay. So good. How about you?

Lucia Hoang I'm doing all right. I'm home at my mom's for the. The holiday, so I'm about to go and attempt a Costco run after this call. So I don't know how if I' survive that, but it's, it's a little ambitious to me to go to Costco during lunchtime the Wednesday, but I'll try it out.

Joseph Pyram It's still a work day, so I think you may be okay.

Lucia Hoang I. Hopefully, yeah, we're all figuring it out. We're all. Yeah, I'm kind of wondering, I'm like, is everyone else who's working from home gonna take the next lunch hour to go to Costco too? Like, that's my, that's my thought question.

Joseph Pyram Yeah.

Lucia Hoang Well, I appreciate you taking, taking the call right now. I, I know that Randy reached out to you about an opportunity and so I was thinking I can spend a couple of minutes to share more about scout and what is it that we do here. And then I would love learn more about your experience at Just Works and then to me again, what role did Randy share with you in his initial email?

Joseph Pyram You tell me about a software engineering position. Didn't tell me too many details about it, but it's for software engineering position at what company?

Lucia Hoang Can you share that again? Sorry, you cut out for a second.

Joseph Pyram Yeah, it was for software engineering position. Let me see if I can get the details. But it's just was he had previously reached out for me to me for a front end. For a front end position. And that one I told him that I'm more of a backend engineer. So he then contacted me afterwards. Tell me why there's another opportunity and if I was still interested and I. Yes. And he then reached out to you, so he didn't really provide the details.

Lucia Hoang Okay. Okay, great. Okay, in that case, then I can share more about Scout and then I'd love to learn a little bit more about you, and then we can see if there's like a match somewhere here. So Scout is a private network for software engineers, product managers, and product designers. What Scout did was Scout initially started off as a mentorship platform. Um, and what there was a platform that essentially allowed senior level people to mentor folks who are mid or early in their careers. Um, what started to happen very organically on this platform was people started asking each other for jobs and referring each other to jobs. And so Randy and Kirk, who are the two founders, what they did was they had gone out to their network and essentially asked a number of startup founders like, hey, you know, how's hiring going? And resoundingly all these founders said, it's really hard. Can we just meet people on your network? And so essentially what they did was they started making introductions between people from the mentorship platform to essentially all of these different founders. And once that was able to scale, they decided to pivot to just be like a true network. So right now Scout primarily focuses on just making introductions between people who are interested in learning more about startups and kind of exploring that space, and then founders who are looking to grow their team. And so we work with a number of different startups from all over actually. So like primarily San Francisco and New York. But, you know, we essentially can work with any startup that's probably like pre Seed Seed Series A or Series B. So. So that's like, essentially like Scout. And what is it that we do here? We're not a traditional recruiting agency or anything like that. Like, we're just like truly a network. Yeah. Any questions about Scout and what is it that we do?

Joseph Pyram Okay, so you say, you said in that the traditional staffing agency, right, you're more of a network. So what's, what's different between your outside vision that it's for startups? So one specific.

Lucia Hoang Yeah, so we do. We provide programming and whatnot for a lot of our folks in our network. So we provide community events. So for example, like in San Francisco, we have like a founding engineer circle. So if you're a founding engineer of an organization, you can essentially attend these events and meet other founding engineers. So you can essentially speak with them about like the different issues that you're encountering. Because most founding engineers, it's like a very isolating job because you're like the only engineer at a company, and. And so that's something that we can provide there. We also do programming and community events over in New York as well. And so we're just in the process of just kind of really spinning that up. And then we're also in a product development process where we want to actually provide real product. Product and tooling for people looking to kind of explore startups and whatnot.

Joseph Pyram Cool.

Lucia Hoang Yeah, I would love to hear more about like your experience. You said that you primarily work more on the back end. I'd love to learn more about like what you've been doing over at Just Works.

Joseph Pyram Yeah, sure. So started at Just Works about five years ago and when I joined them I was on the back end working in their core payments team like the premise department. The department and work there mostly responsible for like payment transfer, like they run payroll for companies. And so I was mostly. My team was responsible for the transfer of payments from bank accounts to bank accounts. And I stayed there for about a year and a half, almost two years and then the company across teams to learn more about the business, learn more about different aspects of the company. And so there was an opportunity to move on to another team which is the internal tooling team. And I moved there and I've been there ever since. Even though we kind of organized a few times. But I've been there ever since and basically the team were. Our main thing is to build tools for our internal customers who are just workers that you know, use different tools to help our clients. And so my team mostly builds APIs in particular that other teams use to. To empower their. Their work. So. So yeah that's. So basically our tech flow or tech stack rather it just works is we have a bunch of stacks actually but the current, I mean it's mostly Ruby, mostly Ruby and else job. But even moving away from that, even doing GO mostly. And so working been working on go on the front end and back back end on the back end rather. And the front end is React and the View js. Yeah.

Lucia Hoang Okay.