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Alexa Amundson

Platform Engineer

amundsonalexa@gmail.com | github.com/blackboxprogramming


Summary

No platform team, no internal tools budget. Built a complete developer platform from scratch: 212 CLI tools, self-hosted Git, code search, CI/CD pipelines, and automated observability — because waiting for someone else wasn't an option.


Experience

BlackRoad OS | Founder & Platform Engineer | 2025Present

The Gap: No Developer Platform Exists

  • 1,603 repos across 17 GitHub orgs + 207 Gitea repos — needed unified tooling to manage code, deploy, search, and monitor across all of it
  • Built 212 CLI tools (121 MB) — every common workflow is a single command: deploy, probe, audit, sync, collect, report
  • Self-hosted Gitea on the fleet with 207 repos across 7 orgs — full Git sovereignty with GitHub-to-Gitea relay syncing every 30 minutes

The Platform: Search, Deploy, Observe

  • Code search engine indexing 354 repos with FTS5 full-text search — find anything across the entire codebase in milliseconds
  • 99 Cloudflare Pages projects with git-push deployment — every commit triggers build and deploy automatically
  • 10-collector KPI system generates daily observability: fleet health, code velocity, cloud inventory, service status

Why It Matters

  • A solo developer operating at the output of a small team needs tools that multiply, not slow down
  • 326 commits/day sustained velocity. 4,019 PRs merged. 20 languages. This throughput requires platform, not heroics

Technical Skills

Cloudflare Pages/Workers, Gitea, GitHub Actions, Docker Swarm, CLI tooling, Bash, Python, FTS5


Metrics

Metric Value Source
CLI Tools live local.sh — ls ~/bin
Total Repos live github-all-orgs.sh — gh api repos (17 owners)
CF Pages live cloudflare.sh — wrangler pages list
Systemd Services live services.sh — systemctl list-units via SSH
Docker Containers live services.sh — docker ps via SSH
Lines of Code live loc.sh — cloc + fleet SSH