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AutomationLightricks2024 – 2026
Automations worth $60K a year
HR, hiring, food ordering, flight approvals, plant sales: a portfolio of automations across Zapier, AWS and GCP that cut manual effort company-wide and saved $60K a year.
The problem
Every operations team had processes that ran on somebody remembering to do them. Requests moved by email and chat, approvals waited on whoever was busiest, and systems with perfectly good APIs were being bridged by hand.
What I did
- Built on Zapier where speed of delivery mattered, and on AWS and GCP where the logic needed to be custom and reliable.
- Automated HR processes and parts of the hiring pipeline, removing manual handoffs between the systems recruiters and HR actually used.
- Built an internal food ordering system and a flight request approval flow, turning email threads into processes with a state.
- Treated each automation as a product with an owner and a failure mode, not a script somebody once wrote.
What changed
- $60K in annual savings from reduced manual effort.
- Teams freed from the kind of work nobody misses: chasing approvals, re-entering data, forwarding requests.
What I took from it
Boring automations compound. None of these was impressive on its own, but a company where requests, approvals and handoffs simply happen is a different place to work than one where everything needs a reminder.
AutomationZapierAWSGCPOperations
Amit Straus