scubbo / autobot

A (nearly-fully) automated way to set up a Slackbot

Pronouns: He/Him

Professional History

After graduating with a degree in Mathematics and spending a year with a small web development company, I worked for 10 years with Amazon - 4 with Amazon Video in London, and 6 with Amazon Music in San Francisco, ending up as the Tech Lead for the Music Metrics and Data Platform organization. Upon recognizing the inevitable incipient burnout, I took 6 months off of work to recuperate. Since I'd been interested in resiliency and quality development practices while at Amazon (in my spare time I wrote the first version of what eventually became Amazon's Load Test coordination tool, and I led the Incident Analysis group in Music alongside my day job), I've moved into an SRE role at LegalZoom as of January 2023.

Personal Work

I run a homelab as a testbed for tinkering and learning, mostly with k8s-/GitOps-related tools. Currently I'm trying to figure out how to Crossplane-ify All The Things.

I blog about technology and other things here. The majority of my own code lives on my personal Gitea instance rather than on GitHub itself - this account is just for collaborating with others.

Contact and Socials

Mastodon is my main Social Media app nowadays. I'm reachable via email at [email protected].

autobot's Issues

Convert to CloudFormation

A lot of this AWS resource setup could probably be done in CloudFormation. I'm just less familiar with it, so shied away from it.

Extract cleanup commands

Instead of having main.sh take full responsibility for issuing them, have each script write cleanup commands to an external file, then to write out (and rm) that file upon termination of the script.

Realistically, this could only be done if something like this is possible. Or I guess by having each script increment an env variable by 1 on initialization, and decrement it by 1 immediately after calling any other script, and only print at the end if that variable is 1. Either way, might potentially need better error-handling (which is going to be a hassle in shell scripting)