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I'm a platform and infrastructure engineer. I build things that make engineers — and people — function better. Not because it's my job title. Because it's the problem I find genuinely interesting.

I think in systems. I design contracts before writing code. I have strong opinions about the difference between infrastructure that enables people and infrastructure that just keeps the lights on.

My current work lives at ergon-automation-labs — an org I founded to build Bot Army, a 55+ repo personal operating system for attention management built on Elixir/BEAM, NATS, SaltStack, and a push/pull surface philosophy.

I share parts of the system that others can use:

• portable_job_applications — Self-hosted job search + recommendation engine
• portable_job_applications_tui — Terminal UI for job management
• portable_llm_proxy — Multi-model LLM routing via NATS

• public_view — Live metrics on what's being built and deployed
• YouTube (@AbbyMalson3) — Deep dives on design decisions and live building sessions

→ See the full project portfolio at ergon-automation-labs

Older personal projects, experiments, and prior work live here — spanning distributed systems, observability tooling, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, security, and AI tooling built during my time at Filevine and before.

Notable prior work:

• AI SRE Terminal — LLM-powered on-call workflow tool built at Filevine, adopted organically by teammates
• Algorithmic trading platform — early distributed systems work at scale
• Various Kubernetes, cloud infra, and observability experiments over 25 years

• Schema-first. Contracts between services are interfaces between teams.
• Push vs. pull is a design decision. Interrupts should earn their interruption.
• Operational clarity is a feature. If on-call is miserable, the system has a design problem.
• Boring technology is a deliberate choice. I reach for interesting technology when the problem actually demands it.

Staff / Principal Platform Engineering roles at AI-native companies in the Denver area or remote.

If my work resonates, let's talk.

• 📍 Denver, CO
• 💼 linkedin.com/in/abbymalson
• 🤖 ergon-automation-labs

_{Last updated March 2026}