# Alexa Amundson

**Technical Lead**

amundsonalexa@gmail.com | [github.com/blackboxprogramming](https://github.com/blackboxprogramming)

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## Summary

Technical lead building BlackRoad OS from zero to 7.2M LOC, 1,810 repos, and a 7-node production fleet. Drives technical direction across AI/ML, infrastructure, cloud, and developer tooling. 326 commits/day velocity with 4,019 PRs merged and 60+ KPIs tracked daily.

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## Experience

### BlackRoad OS | Founder & Technical Lead | 2025–Present

**Technical Vision & Execution**
- Architected full-stack platform: edge compute (5 Pis) + cloud (Cloudflare + DO) + AI (27 models)
- Grew codebase to 7,212,320 LOC across 1,603 GitHub repos in 20 languages
- Maintained 326 commits/day development velocity
- Merged 4,019 pull requests across all repositories

**Infrastructure Leadership**
- Designed hybrid edge-cloud architecture with 7 compute nodes
- 99 Cloudflare Pages, 22 D1 databases, 46 KV, 11 R2 buckets
- WireGuard mesh VPN + Cloudflare tunnels for secure distributed operations
- 256 systemd services, 14 Docker containers, 48 Nginx sites

**AI/ML Direction**
- Deployed 27 Ollama models (48.1 GB) with 52 TOPS hardware acceleration
- Fine-tuned 4 custom models for domain-specific applications
- Built AI image generation pipeline with 4 backend agents
- SSE streaming proxy for real-time model interaction

**Developer Experience**
- Built 212 CLI tools (121 MB) for team productivity
- Self-hosted Gitea with 207 repos across 7 organizations
- Code search engine indexing 354 repos with FTS5
- Automated deployment pipelines via GitHub Actions and Cloudflare

**Operational Excellence**
- Built KPI system tracking 60+ metrics across 9 data sources
- Self-healing automation on all fleet nodes
- Security hardening: malware removal, credential rotation, zero-trust networking
- Power and thermal optimization across edge fleet

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## Technical Skills

**Leadership:** Architecture design, technical roadmap, operational excellence
**Stack:** Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Bash, Go | FastAPI, Next.js, React
**Infrastructure:** Linux, Docker, Cloudflare, WireGuard, Raspberry Pi, Hailo-8
**Data:** PostgreSQL, SQLite, D1, KV, R2, FTS5, Qdrant
**AI:** Ollama, custom fine-tuning, NPU inference, multi-model orchestration

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## Metrics

| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Lines of code | 7,212,320 |
| Commits/day | 326 |
| PRs merged | 4,019 |
| Repos | 1,810 |
| AI models | 27 |
| Fleet nodes | 7 |
| KPIs tracked | 60+ |