LinkedInToPersonalWebsite

Using AWS Lambda, S3, and API Gateway to keep my personal website synced with my LinkedIn. What's the point of a personal website that is literally just the same as my LinkedIn? Great question, we'll see...

API Gateway

GET /api/get_content

200 status code
[
  {
    "id": "Education",
    "name": "Education",
    "experiences": [
      {
        "date": "2018-2021",
        "title": "Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Pre-Med",
        "position": "The University of California, Berkeley",
        "description": "Relevant Coursework: Data Structures, Artificial Intelligence, Probability, Statistics",
        "icon": "icon-school"
      }, ...
    ]
  }, ...
]

500 status code
{
  "msg": "Unable to complete request -- {localized error string}"
}

Lambdas

GetContent Lambda

API Gateway proxy lambda. Simply reads the content.json file from the Content S3 bucket and returns it as indicated above.

SyncContent Lambda

This is part of the ingestion pipeline. Triggered by a monthly CloudWatch job, it reads gets the latest profile information from the LinkedIn API, transforms the profile information into a properly formatted JSON, and compares with the existing content.json file in the Content S3 bucket. If there are any differences, it overwrites the content.json file with the newer version and sends a Slack notification.

Secrets

For now, my LinkedIn password is stored in a gitignore'd secrets.json file in the Lambdas/SyncContent/ directory

Deploying to AWS Lambda

Since this is a small project, I just zip up the lambda handler and runtime dependencies e.g.

cd Lambdas/SyncContent/package/
zip -r ../my-deployment-package.zip .
cd ..
zip -g my-deployment-package.zip lambda_function.py utils.py secrets.json