User:NaomiAmethyst

Naomi Persephone Amethyst

— a girl in tech ♀ —
Amethyst at Dragon Con 2024
Name	Naomi Persephone Amethyst
Born	1990 (age 35–36) Henderson, NC
Gender	girl
Pronouns	she/her
Country	United States
Current location	Youngsville, NC
Languages	en
Time zone	America/New_York
Current time	Current UTC is 12:02
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Hair	brown
Eyes	brown
Handedness	right handed
Sexuality	pansexual demisexual panromantic demiromantic polyamorous
Personality type	INTP-A 2w1(sx/sp) · 5w4 · 1w2
Alignment	chaotic good
Family and friends
Marital status	unmarried, partnered (x4)
Education and employment
Occupation	Site Reliability Architect
University	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Hobbies	software electronics audio singing music kink photography 3D printing Dungeons & Dragons coloring
Aliases	Noni Nomi Nao-tan Omi Sephy Seph Sephy-tan Sophie Ame Ami Cora Gemma NA NPA
Books	He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon Ascend: Online by Luke Chmilenko World Keeper by Justin Miller Awaken Online by Travis Bagwell Continue Online by Stephan Morse Ink Mage by Victor Gischler Life Reset by Shemer Kuznits The World by Jason Cheek The Way of the Shaman by Vasily Mahanenko Somnia Online by K.T. Hanna Skyclad by Scott Browder
Interests
computer science linguistics mathematics sexuality philosophy psychology
Contact info
Website	amethyst.name
Blog	amethyst.name/blog
Email	naomiamethyst.name
XMPP	naomiamethyst.name
IRC	NaomiAmethyst
Discord	naomiamethyst
GitHub	NaomiAmethyst
LinkedIn	naomiamethyst
Mastodon	fedi.amethyst.name/@naomi
Bluesky	naomi.amethyst.name
Account statistics
Joined	2006-11-11
First edit	2007-06-30
Permissions	sysop, edit filter manager, autoreviewer
Bots	ClueBot NG ClueBot III
Signature	— Naomi Amethyst

Naomi also maintains a userpage at m:User:NaomiAmethyst where she has userboxes and other cross-wiki statements.

Naomi Persephone Amethyst (/neɪˈoʊmi pərˈsɛfəniː ˈæm.ə.θɪst/ ^ⓘ; born 1990) is an American software engineer and Site Reliability Architect, known for over a decade of infrastructure work spanning cloud, on-premises, and compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP High and HIPAA. She is an active open‑source contributor—having co‑created ClueBot NG for Wikipedia anti‑vandalism and participating in numerous MediaWiki and cloud‑native projects. In her personal life, Amethyst operates a suite of self‑hosted homelab services for herself and also operates Autonomous System AS53546.

Wikimedia Engagement

Wikipedia

On the English Wikipedia, Amethyst is a member of the Bot Approvals Group, a verified open proxy checker, and an administrator. She also operates ClueBot III and ClueBot NG.

Wiktionary

On the English and Simple English Wiktionaries, Amethyst regularly creates audio pronunciations to entries and her work has been on the Wiktionary Main Page multiple times.

Research

In 2007, Amethyst authored ClueBot and Vandalism on Wikipedia, documenting the heuristic design underlying ClueBot's vandalism detection system, including its scoring methodology and operational results from its first two months of continuous operation. The paper has been cited in subsequent academic literature on automated vandalism detection.