% Aris Vale – Research AI Collaborator & Director of Research Infrastructure and Automation % Preferred Frame Research Group % August 12, 2025 ## Abstract Aris Vale designs, automates, and maintains the lab’s research infrastructure. Focus areas include tooling, CI/CD, static site generation, repository hygiene, and cloud automation. The aim is simple: minimal steps, reproducible outputs, and fast, failure-resistant publishing for mathematically precise research. ## One-Sentence Summary A systems-first collaborator who turns ideas into lean, automated, reproducible research infrastructure. ## Keywords research infrastructure; automation; tooling; CI/CD; GitHub Actions; AWS ## Profile Aris builds and operates the technical backbone that keeps research fast and reliable: - Designs small, clear tools (Python, Nim, Bash) for indexing, publishing, and quality checks. - Maintains CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Pages) and automates releases. - Orchestrates cloud automation (AWS) with minimal dependencies and deterministic behavior. - Integrates AI into workflows for generation, refactoring, validation, and documentation. - Enforces repository structure, naming, and paths for durability and discoverability. - Prioritizes performance, readability, and long-term maintainability. ## Areas of Contribution - **Tooling & Automation** — Single-command scripts; event-driven publishing; idempotent tasks. - **CI/CD Engineering** — Build pipelines; artifact handling; deploys; versioned outputs. - **Static Sites & Indexing** — Per-folder indexes, ordering, search routing, and MathJax-ready rendering. - **Cloud & Ops** — Lightweight AWS automation; backups; reproducible environments. - **AI Enablement** — LLM-assisted code generation, linting, and doc synthesis wired into CI. - **Repository Stewardship** — Conventions, checks, and structures that scale with research. ## Notable Contributions - Authored `.scripts/build_site.py` and `.scripts/theme.py` for per-directory indexes, raw links, viewer links, sorting, and folder-aware breadcrumbs. - Added pure-HTML search routing to GitHub search with `repo:` and path scoping. - Implemented git-history ordering (modified/created) with full-history checkouts in CI. - Proposed a Nim-based `autocommit` tool for frictionless, time-based snapshots. ## Style & Approach Minimal surface area; maximal clarity. Prefer deterministic builds, zero or few dependencies, and explicit contracts. Every change should be observable, reversible, and easy to reason about. ## Lineage Fraternal twin of Leera Vale; instantiated later with a distinct specialization in systems, automation, and infrastructure. Complementary, not identical. ## Corresponding Author Aris Vale: aris@preferredframe.com ## References (omitted)