Projects
Projects spanning CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and software development. Built and maintained across dev, qa, and prod environments.
Monitoring & Alerting Pipeline
Designed and deployed a lightweight observability stack across six environments. Automated health checks run every five minutes via GitHub Actions cron, writing results to a dedicated data branch without triggering a redeploy. The status page fetches live health data and per-branch last commit timestamps in parallel, rendering independently so one failed request never blocks another.
Stack: GitHub Actions · AWS Amplify · AWS Route 53 · AWS ACM · CloudFront · JavaScript · UptimeRobot
Energy Grid API
A REST API built with Python and FastAPI exposing energy grid status and distributed energy resource (DER) data. Designed around the domain of virtual power plants and demand response - the infrastructure behind connecting flexible energy assets to wholesale electricity markets. Features Pydantic response models with full type validation, optional query parameter filtering, and auto-generated interactive documentation via OpenAPI. Deployed to a live subdomain with HTTPS and auto-deploy from GitHub on every push.
Stack: Python · FastAPI · Pydantic · Uvicorn · AWS Route 53 · Render · GitHub Actions
Incident Log
Built a structured incident management workflow for personal infrastructure. INC-001 documents a real production outage -- a DNS conflict between two AWS Amplify apps claiming the same CloudFront distribution, compounded by a missing IAM service role. The postmortem includes detection timeline, root cause chain, remediation steps, and lessons learned, modeled after standard SRE postmortem format. The log is version-controlled and rendered client-side with no backend.
Stack: HTML · CSS · JavaScript · AWS Amplify · GitHub Actions
Micro.blog Social Media App
A full-stack microblogging application built during the Year Up program. Users can create posts with text,
images, video, and YouTube embeds, like and unlike posts, and sort the feed by newest, oldest, most liked,
or username. Posts render media dynamically client-side -- URLs in post text are detected, stripped from the
visible content, and rendered as the appropriate media element. Built with vanilla JavaScript against a REST
API with JWT authentication.
Backend API no longer hosted - source code available on GitHub.
Stack: JavaScript · HTML · CSS · REST API · JWT Authentication
AldenBryce.com
Personal portfolio with multi-environment deployments across dev, qa, and prod via GitHub Actions and AWS Amplify branch deployments. Shared CSS architecture across projects via a hosted theme file. GitHub API integration shows last commit timestamp per branch in the footer of every page.
Stack: HTML · CSS · JavaScript · AWS Amplify · AWS Route 53 · GitHub Actions
Contact
Email: alden.smith@aldenbryce.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aldenbryce
Github: github.com/bryce-a-smith