"I build custom software, tooling, and infrastructure that make development and test workflows easier, safer, and more repeatable: platform tools, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux systems, Python automation, observability, and release gates.",
"Engineering experience across Boeing, IBM, deployment automation, infrastructure tooling, system testing, and production-minded platform operations.",
heading:"Have a Platform, Pipeline, Deployment, or Automation Problem?",
description:
"Send the problem, technical stack, expected outcome, and timeline. I will respond with whether it is a fit, what information is needed, and the most practical next step.",
"Homegrown AI playtester for Magic: The Gathering deck construction, deployed for the community on Atlas with backend orchestration and disposable simulation workers.",
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"DevOps Automation Engineer and Senior SDET with experience across CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux infrastructure, Python automation, observability, release gates, and system testing.",
"I build deployment workflows, infrastructure utilities, dashboards, operator tools, and test automation that make complex delivery environments easier to run and safer to change.",
"My projects and dashboards run on Atlas, the live bstein.dev platform.",
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summary:
"I diagnose, automate, and stabilize the systems between code and production: test automation, CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes, Linux infrastructure, Python tooling, and observability.",
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"Engineering experience across Boeing, IBM, system and end-to-end testing, deployment automation, infrastructure tooling, and production-minded platform operations.",
heading:"Have a Test, Release, or Automation Problem?",
description:
"Send the problem, technical stack, expected outcome, and timeline. I will respond with whether it is a fit, what information is needed, and the most practical next step.",
"Homegrown AI playtester with simulation flows, backend service boundaries, and useful surfaces for API, worker, regression, and result-quality testing.",
"Senior SDET and DevOps Automation Engineer with experience across Python automation, system and end-to-end testing, chaos testing, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux infrastructure, and observability.",
"I build test frameworks, API and browser automation, release gates, diagnostics, dashboards, and delivery workflows that help teams understand whether a system is ready to ship.",
"My projects and dashboards run on Atlas, the live bstein.dev platform.",
"I build useful software on real infrastructure: Vue frontends, Python services, AI integrations, CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability, and testable delivery paths.",
experienceLine:
"Engineering experience across live product delivery, Boeing, IBM, AI services, infrastructure tooling, and production-minded platform operations.",
"Application engineering, AI service integration, infrastructure automation, and release quality across the full path from idea to running service.",
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"I can help turn a useful idea into a running service: application workflow, API boundaries, background jobs, CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment, observability, and test coverage.",
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heading:"Product and Platform Showcase",
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"Inspectable repos, live services, and professional work samples that show product engineering backed by real operations.",
heading:"Have a Product, AI Service, Platform, or Automation Problem?",
description:
"Send the idea or problem, technical stack, expected outcome, and timeline. I will respond with whether it is a fit, what information is needed, and the most practical next step.",
"Homegrown AI service for Magic: The Gathering deck construction, with product workflow, AI integration, backend orchestration, content seeding, and disposable simulation jobs.",
"Full-stack platform engineer with experience across Vue frontends, Python services, AI integration, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux infrastructure, observability, and testable delivery paths.",
"I build product workflows, APIs, dashboards, background jobs, deployment automation, and test surfaces that turn useful ideas into systems people can actually run.",
"My projects and dashboards run on Atlas, the live bstein.dev platform.",
"System, end-to-end, API, browser, and release-gate testing using Python, Pytest, Selenium, Playwright, and related tooling. Includes test architecture, coverage strategy, flaky-test diagnosis, and CI integration.",
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"Docker and Docker Compose troubleshooting, Kubernetes workloads, Helm deployments, Flux or Argo CD workflows, service routing, configuration, storage, and deployment debugging.",
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title:"Platform bring-up and GitOps operating model",
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"Turn ad hoc services into a source-controlled platform: Kubernetes layout, Kustomize or Flux structure, environments, ingress, identity, storage, secrets, and validation workflow.",
outcome:
"A platform that can be changed through reviewable commits, reconciled by automation, and recovered without mystery manual edits.",
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investigation:
"Encode startup and shutdown order, node reachability, Flux health, workload convergence, ingress checks, service checklists, critical endpoints, and stability soaks.",
outcome:
"Repeatable recovery runs with status reports and gaps converted into automation instead of tribal knowledge.",
},
{
title:"AWS and dedicated-host Kubernetes buildouts",
investigation:
"Design and stand up Kubernetes where the work actually lives: AWS VPCs, subnets, IAM, security groups, EKS or k3s on EC2, plus dedicated-host clusters with ingress, storage, identity, observability, and Terraform-backed repeatability.",
outcome:
"A documented cluster path from empty account or bare host to running services, with the foundations needed for CI/CD, GitOps, monitoring, and future handoff.",
},
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title:"CI/CD quality gates and release machinery",
investigation:
"Build Jenkins pipelines, container/image promotion, coverage floors, lint and security gates, artifact publishing, branch-aware metrics, and failure reporting.",
outcome:
"A delivery path that tells teams what failed, blocks unsafe changes, and produces evidence for every release.",
"A running member platform with authentication, onboarding, dashboards, service boundaries, metrics, health checks, and failure modes that can be tested end to end.",
"A productized platform surface with member accounts, service catalog, OAuth, dashboards, hosted applications, AI workloads, and delivery automation.",
"Senior SDET and DevOps Automation Engineer helping teams improve test automation, CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes reliability, Python tooling, Linux systems, and observability. Available for remote project and contract work.",
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?"I am open to well-aligned remote DevOps Automation, platform engineering, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, Linux, or systems reliability roles. SDET and test automation depth comes with it."
?"I am open to well-aligned remote developer, full-stack, platform product, AI service, Python, Vue, automation, or internal tooling roles. SDET and DevOps depth comes with it."
:"I am open to well-aligned remote SDET, QA Automation, systems testing, release quality, CI/CD, or DevOps Automation roles. Platform engineering depth comes with it.",
