bstein-dev-home/frontend/src/views/AboutView.vue

<template>
  <div class="page">
    <section class="card about">
      <div class="left">
        <div class="portrait">
          <img src="@/assets/profile-avatar.jpg" alt="Brad Stein" />
        </div>
        <div class="contact">
          <div class="name">Brad Stein</div>
          <div class="role">Senior Software Development Engineer </div>
          <div class="role">SDET/ DevOps / Platform Tooling</div>
          <div class="meta">US Citizen · Remote</div>
          <div class="links">
            <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steinbradley/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">LinkedIn</a>
            <a href="https://scm.bstein.dev/bstein" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Gitea</a>
            <a href="https://metrics.bstein.dev" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Metrics</a>
            <a href="mailto:brad@bstein.dev">brad@bstein.dev</a>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="right">
        <h1>About Me</h1>
        <div class="copy">
          <p>
            Senior Backend &amp; DevOps engineer focused on making systems reliable. I build Python-driven tools on Linux, Kubernetes, and CI/CD
            to keep distributed systems healthy.
          </p>
          <p>
            I like simplifying environments and release pipelines so teams can ship and operate confidently. Recent work: platform tooling for a
            Flux-managed Kubernetes microservice stack on the U.S. Space Force’s PTES program.
          </p>
          <p>
            My projects and dashboards run on my local <span class="mono">k3s</span>: see
            <a href="https://scm.bstein.dev/bstein" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">scm.bstein.dev</a> and
            <a href="https://metrics.bstein.dev" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">metrics.bstein.dev</a>.
          </p>
        </div>
        <div class="highlights">
          <div v-for="skill in skills" :key="skill" class="pill mono">{{ skill }}</div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </section>

    <section class="card">
      <div class="section-head">
        <h2>Experience</h2>
        <span class="pill mono">Summary</span>
      </div>
      <div class="timeline">
        <div v-for="item in timeline" :key="item.id" class="entry">
          <div class="dot"></div>
          <div>
            <div class="entry-title">{{ item.title }}</div>
            <div class="entry-sub">{{ item.company }} · {{ item.dates }}</div>
            <ul>
              <li v-for="point in item.points" :key="point">{{ point }}</li>
            </ul>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="divider"></div>
      <p class="note">
        <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steinbradley/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
          Full role history and exact dates are on LinkedIn.
        </a>
      </p>
    </section>

    <section class="card">
      <div class="section-head">
        <h2>Titan Lab</h2>
        <span class="pill mono">atlas + oceanus</span>
      </div>
      <div class="copy">
        <p>
          The Titan Lab is my 26-node (and growing) homelab with a production mindset: security, monitoring, and repeatable changes. The core is
          <span class="mono">Atlas</span>, a GitOps-managed <span class="mono">k3s</span> cluster where services are reconciled by
          <span class="mono">Flux</span>.
        </p>
        <p>
          <span class="mono">Atlas</span> is my attempt to fully replace all online services that I need or use with self-hosted versions. I care 
          deeply about security both for the lab and the cluster and personally. My first hosted services was <span class="mono">VaultWarder</span>
          but now the cluster hosts everything from email to ai. In my freetime, I'm always working on <span class="mono">Atlas</span> with small
          services or organization improvements to make it better and cleaner and cooler. 
        </p>
        <p>
          <span class="mono">Oceanus</span> is intentionally separated host for validator workloads while still feeding data back into the same
          observability stack. SUI is a crypto currency I follow and believe in and so <span class="mono">Oceanus</span> is in my lab and is dedicated
          hardware to extend their infrastructure and make the SUI project more resilient.
        </p>
      </div>
    </section>
  </div>
</template>

<script setup>
const skills = [
  "Python",
  "Linux",
  "Kubernetes (k3s/k8s)",
  "Containers (Docker/OCI)",
  "GitOps (Flux)",
  "CI/CD (Jenkins)",
  "Release gating",
  "Test automation",
  "Keycloak / OIDC",
  "Grafana + VictoriaMetrics",
  "Traefik ingress",
  "Longhorn storage",
  "Go",
  "Rust",
  "Bash",
  "Terraform",
  "SQL",
];

const timeline = [
  {
    id: "actalent-boeing-ptes",
    title: "Senior Software Development Engineer in Test",
    company: "Boeing (Actalent contract)",
    dates: "Sep 2023 – Oct 2025",
    points: [
      "Built internal tools and infrastructure around a Kubernetes microservice platform (PTES).",
      "Created Lanterna, a visualization tool mapping service and environment relationships from a Flux-controlled monorepo.",
      "Designed Jenkins promotion workflows and test-gating pipelines to move builds safely through environments.",
      "Built TaskWatcher for drift protection and orchestration of non-Kubernetes systems, including capture of transient crypto artifacts.",
    ],
  },
    {
    id: "titan-lab-architect",
    title: "Titan Lab Architect",
    company: "Titan Lab (personal platform)",
    dates: "Apr 2020 – Present",
    points: [
      "Operate a mixed arm64/amd64 environment with GitOps (Gitea -> Jenkins -> Harbor -> Flux).",
      "Centralized identity with Keycloak and front services via Traefik ingress.",
      "Run tiered Longhorn storage: astreae (system) and asteria (user).",
      "Build observability with Grafana + VictoriaMetrics and OpenSearch dashboards around real service health and log tracking.",
      "Audio, video, and text communication on a Matrix-LiveKit-Coturn-Element stack with mobile compatibility and AI chat integration.",
      "Video streaming of home movies via Jellyfin and instant uploading/publishing with Pegasus.",
      "Host crypto projects with a XRM node and a SUI validator.",
      "Has a knowledge base about the cluster itself for AI bot awareness.",
      "Vault based secret management - no critical information in Kubernetes secrets.",
    ],
  },
  {
    id: "ibm-sdet",
    title: "Software Development Engineer in Test",
    company: "IBM",
    dates: "Mar 2020 – May 2023",
    points: [
      "Authored and planned system and end-to-end integration tests using Go, Terraform, Python, and Bash.",
      "Monitored critical API endpoints with Zabbix and worked incident-style issues end to end.",
      "Supported platform testing for the Madrid Data Center rollout.",
    ],
  },
  {
    id: "softlayer-ibmcloud-sdet",
    title: "Software Development Engineer in Test",
    company: "SoftLayer / IBM Cloud (TekSystems Contract)",
    dates: "Nov 2018 – Mar 2020",
    points: [
      "Built automated end-to-end tests in Go and Python across REST and SOAP APIs.",
      "Worked across frontend and backend efforts (Vue, WordPress, Docker, MySQL/Postgres).",
      "Used Jenkins + Splunk/Kibana to diagnose failures and produce coverage-focused test reports.",
    ],
  },
  {
    id: "unifocus-survey-programmer",
    title: "Survey Programmer",
    company: "UniFocus",
    dates: "Aug 2014 – Nov 2018",
    points: [
      "Wrote SQL-driven survey sites and reporting logic; customized sites via CSS and JavaScript.",
      "Built Python and VBA automation tools to reduce manual work for teams and business partners.",
      "Won UniFocus Excellence Award (2015) and Innovation Award (2016).",
    ],
  },
  {
    id: "magic-aire-engineering-assistant",
    title: "Engineering Assistant",
    company: "United Electric Company - Magic Aire",
    dates: "Apr 2011 – Aug 2014",
    points: [
      "Wrote and maintained VBA tools for internal use, including interpolators and data-entry utilities.",
      "Supported mechanical engineering work in SolidWorks (drawing modernization and component standardization).",
    ],
  },
];
</script>

<style scoped>
.page {
  max-width: 1000px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 32px 22px 72px;
}

.about {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 1fr 2fr;
  gap: 18px;
}

.portrait {
  width: 120px;
  height: 120px;
  flex: 0 0 120px;
  aspect-ratio: 1 / 1;
  border-radius: 50%;
  overflow: hidden;
  border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.12);
  display: grid;
  place-items: center;
  background: linear-gradient(135deg, rgba(0, 229, 197, 0.5), rgba(127, 124, 255, 0.45));
}

.portrait img {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  object-fit: cover;
}

.left {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 14px;
}

.contact .name {
  font-weight: 800;
  color: var(--text-strong);
}

.contact .role {
  color: var(--text-muted);
}

.contact .meta {
  color: var(--text-muted);
  font-size: 13px;
  margin-top: 2px;
}

.badges {
  display: flex;
  gap: 8px;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  margin-top: 10px;
}

.links {
  display: flex;
  gap: 10px;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  margin-top: 8px;
}

.links a {
  color: var(--accent-cyan);
  text-decoration: none;
}

.links a:hover {
  color: var(--accent-rose);
}

.right h1 {
  margin: 0 0 8px;
}

.section-head {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-between;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
}

.copy {
  color: var(--text-muted);
}

.copy p {
  margin: 0 0 10px;
  line-height: 1.55;
}

.copy p:last-child {
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

.highlights {
  display: flex;
  gap: 8px;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  margin-top: 12px;
}

.note {
  color: var(--text-muted);
  margin: 0;
}

.note a {
  color: var(--text-muted);
  text-decoration: none;
  border-bottom: 1px dashed rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.18);
  padding-bottom: 1px;
}

.note a:hover {
  color: var(--accent-cyan);
  border-bottom-color: rgba(0, 229, 197, 0.5);
}

.timeline {
  display: grid;
  gap: 12px;
  margin-top: 8px;
}

.entry {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: auto 1fr;
  gap: 10px;
}

.dot {
  width: 14px;
  height: 14px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 2px solid var(--accent-cyan);
  margin-top: 6px;
}

.entry-title {
  font-weight: 800;
}

.entry-sub {
  color: var(--text-muted);
  margin-bottom: 4px;
}

ul {
  margin: 0;
  padding-left: 16px;
  color: var(--text-muted);
}

@media (max-width: 820px) {
  .about {
    grid-template-columns: 1fr;
  }
  .left {
    justify-content: flex-start;
  }
}
</style>