I talk about things that I’ve learned on substack. Read about my values on my /about page.

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I’m open to contracting/consulting engagements so feel free to reach out if there’s a project that I can help you with. Find out more about my consulting and business persona at https://mentallyanimated.com.

Things I’ve built

These are all projects that I’ve built for myself and not for the company I was working for. For work history and experience, check out my resume or my linkedin.

• https://resumegpt.aaronbatilo.dev - A chatbot trained on text about myself and my career history. You can ask it questions about me and it’ll respond with a natural tone. Read more
• https://terragen.sh - MVP for terraform code generation
• https://sudokurace.io - Real-time multiplayer cooperative sudoku boards. Play with as many people as you want on the same board
• https://catstories.ai - Get a daily heart warming story about cats
• https://www.coloradoexcluded.com, A website that lists companies that are avoiding hiring in the state of Colorado. Featured on the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Colorado Sun, and Denver’s 9News. Built with a React + TypeScript + Tailwind frontend, with a gRPC + gRPC gateway Go backend on AWS EKS, and AWS Serverless Aurora.
• pulumi-composite-actions, an alternative to the official Pulumi GitHub Actions that supports commenting on a pull request only when there’s detected changes as well as Pulumi’s internal S3 state locking with built in retries.
• EC2Throughput, learn what it means for an EC2 instance to have ”Up to N Gigabit” network performance. All benchmarks are ran automatically and published to the website immediately after tests complete. EC2 instances are orchestrated with Pulumi. Website is React + TypeScript + Next.js hosted on Vercel.
• github-action-locks, DynamoDB based locking for use in a GitHub Actions workflow to guarantee atomic execution of your GitHub Actions. Go binary that interacts with AWS DynamoDB.
• actions-poetry, a GitHub Action for executing poetry the Python package management tool. It’s been kept up to date with GitHub Action best practices.
• readinglevel.app, analyze text for estimated reading comprehension requirements.
• typed-json-dataclasses, zero configuration strong typing for data models and json SerDe your @dataclasses. On PyPI.