RON-12TO DO
Serverless backend
Implement lightweight AWS Lambda processing with logging, error handling and frontend integration.
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PROJECT 02IN PROGRESS
RonBot
An AI-powered interactive portfolio assistant that helps visitors explore Ron's work experience, skills, certifications, education and projects using only information published on this website. RonBot is designed to stay grounded, avoid guessing and direct unanswered enquiries to the Contact page.
AI AgentAWSPythonServerlessRAGGitHub
Backlog13
In Progress0
Completed11 / 24
Project Delivery Board
Backlog 13
RON-13TO DO
AI model integration
Select and integrate a suitable model with prompts and guardrails optimised for quality, latency and cost.
RON-14TO DO
Conversation context
Support natural follow-up questions while preventing chat history from overriding grounding rules.
RON-15TO DO
Security controls
Add input validation, rate limiting, API protection and prompt-injection resistance.
RON-16TO DO
Privacy guardrails
Prevent external personal-data retrieval and define safe behaviour for personal or inappropriate questions.
RON-17TO DO
Cost controls & FinOps monitoring
Measure RonBot's production AWS and AI operating costs, maintain budget alerts, establish a monthly cost baseline and document optimisation opportunities, including cost-per-usage metrics where practical.
RON-18TO DO
Test question set
Create recruiter, technical, certification, work-history, unknown-answer and adversarial test cases.
RON-19TO DO
Grounding & hallucination testing
Verify answers against the website and confirm unsupported questions trigger the Contact fallback.
RON-20TO DO
Production QA
Test desktop, mobile, browsers, accessibility, performance, error handling and live AWS integration.
RON-21TO DO
GitHub repository documentation
Build out the repository with source, README, architecture, deployment, privacy, screenshots and cost notes.
RON-22TO DO
Project 02 portfolio page
Expand this page with architecture, stack, screenshots, technical challenges, security controls and outcomes.
RON-23TO DO
Production deployment
Deploy the backend and frontend integration, configure production settings and complete end-to-end testing.
RON-24TO DO
Project review & completion
Complete final documentation, cost and portfolio reviews before marking Project 02 complete.
In Progress 0
No task is currently marked in progress. RON-11 — RonBot API is complete; RON-12 — Serverless backend is next in the backlog.
Completed 11
RON-01COMPLETE
Requirements & knowledge boundary
Defined RonBot as a website-only assistant: no external searches about Ron, no unsupported guessing, and unanswered enquiries are directed to the Contact page.
RON-02COMPLETE
RonBot architecture
Defined and documented the frontend, API, AI and website-knowledge architecture using low-cost serverless AWS services.
RON-03COMPLETE
Personality & response style
Defined RonBot's friendly, professional and recruiter-ready voice, adaptive technical depth, website-only grounding and Contact fallback behaviour.
RON-04COMPLETE
Production RonBot character
Created and approved the production RonBot character artwork with AWS hoodie, Redpanda T-shirt, Azure beanie, Google-branded trousers and study material.
RON-05COMPLETE
Website knowledge ingestion & retrieval
Built and validated the website knowledge ingestion and retrieval foundation, including structured JSONL generation, chunking with overlap, URL canonicalisation, same-site restrictions and grounded retrieval tests against live website content.
RON-06COMPLETE
Animation & interaction
Added the interactive RonBot chat experience with hover feedback, animated open/close behaviour, user message bubbles, purposeful thinking animation, an animated thinking indicator, improved spacing and reduced-motion accessibility support.
RON-07COMPLETE
Website knowledge source
Built and validated the website ingestion pipeline, indexing 12 live site pages into 39 clean, traceable knowledge chunks.
RON-08COMPLETE
Website-only grounding
Enforced same-site-only crawling and validated that GitHub, LinkedIn, Credly and all other external domains are excluded from RonBot's knowledge source.
RON-09COMPLETE
Grounded answers & unknown-answer fallback
Improved natural-language retrieval and conversational answers while preserving the website-only knowledge boundary and Contact-page fallback. Validated with an 11 / 11 regression test covering supported and deliberately unsupported questions.
RON-10COMPLETE
Recruiter & technical answer depth
Added adaptive answer depth so general visitors receive concise portfolio answers while technical questions can surface deeper website-grounded implementation detail. Improved retrieval for RonBot implementation questions while preserving website-only grounding and the Contact-page fallback for unsupported questions.
RON-11COMPLETE
RonBot API
Deployed the RonBot backend to AWS Lambda, exposed it through an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API using POST /ask, connected the browser frontend to the live endpoint, configured CORS for local and production origins, and validated grounded answers, fallback behaviour and frontend error handling.
Current status: RON-11 — RonBot API is complete. RonBot now has a working AWS-hosted API using API Gateway and Lambda, with the browser frontend connected to the live endpoint while preserving website-only grounding, safe fallback behaviour and friendly connection-error handling. Next: RON-12 — Serverless backend.