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Alexa Amundson

Automation Engineer

amundsonalexa@gmail.com | github.com/blackboxprogramming


Summary

Automation engineer who built 212 CLI tools, 52 scheduled tasks, and self-healing fleet automation across a 7-node infrastructure. Automates KPI collection (60+ metrics daily), deployment pipelines, fleet monitoring, power optimization, and cross-platform repository sync.


Experience

BlackRoad OS | Founder & Automation Lead | 2025Present

CLI Tooling

  • Built 212 CLI tools (121 MB) in ~/bin covering deployment, monitoring, stats, and fleet management
  • 91 shell scripts for infrastructure automation
  • Custom RoadC programming language with lexer, parser, and tree-walking interpreter
  • br-stats, br-upload, br-generate, roadid, carpool — production CLI tools

Scheduled Automation

  • 17 Mac cron jobs: health monitoring (5m), sync (15m), website automation (30m), backups (daily/6h/12h)
  • 35 systemd timers across fleet for service monitoring and data collection
  • Self-healing autonomy: heartbeat (1m) + heal (5m) cycles on all Pi nodes
  • GitHub-to-Gitea relay: 30-minute sync across 207 repos

KPI Automation

  • 9-collector daily KPI system: GitHub, Gitea, fleet, services, autonomy, LOC, local, Cloudflare, deep GitHub
  • Automated fleet probing via SSH with Python-based remote execution
  • Daily Slack reporting (block kit formatting)
  • Markdown report generation for GitHub README auto-update
  • Day-over-day delta tracking with visual progress bars

Deployment Automation

  • 99 Cloudflare Pages with git-push deployment
  • GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
  • Docker Swarm service orchestration
  • Fleet-wide power optimization with --apply mode

Fleet Automation

  • Power monitoring deployed to all nodes (5-minute intervals)
  • CPU governor persistence via tmpfiles.d
  • Automated service discovery and restart
  • Credential rotation from plaintext to secured env files

Technical Skills

Scripting: Bash (212 tools), Python, JavaScript Automation: cron, systemd timers, GitHub Actions, Docker Swarm Tools: Wrangler, gh CLI, SSH, rsync, rclone Monitoring: Custom KPI system, Slack webhooks, distributed tracing Infrastructure: Linux, Docker, Cloudflare, WireGuard


Metrics

Metric Value
CLI tools 212
Automated tasks 52
KPI metrics 60+
Data collectors 9
Shell scripts 91
Cron jobs (Mac) 17
Fleet timers 35