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Uğurcan Uzunkaya
• Mar 13
3 hours a week onboarding community members. Automated for $0.00/month.
Open Google Sheet. Track contacts. Send emails one by one. Every week.
So I built a serverless pipeline instead.
Every Monday, Cloud Scheduler triggers a Cloud Run Job. It reads new applications, sends onboarding emails via Resend, logs to Firestore, then shuts down. No idle compute. No manual work.
Two decisions worth noting:
SQLite on GCS crashed from file-locking issues. Switched to Firestore. Boot times improved immediately.
Hardcoded credentials replaced with Workload Identity Federation. Zero secrets in the repo.
Result: scales to zero, deploys on git push, runs on GCP's Always Free tier.
Product ManagementGitHubCloud InfrastructurePythonopentoworkDevOpsGoogle Cloud Platform
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