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Dustin Braun

Data Validation Lead building evidence-grounded systems

Quality engineering · observability · AI evaluation · bounded automation

Python TypeScript Playwright GitHub Actions

I build software that preserves the difference between what happened, what a model inferred, and what actually changed.


What I build

My work began in test automation and grew into a broader engineering question:

Can a system make useful judgments without confusing evidence, interpretation, and action?

I build systems that observe real environments, preserve provenance, evaluate model behavior, and verify consequential actions against persisted state. The common thread is trust: claims should have evidence, interpretations should remain correctable, and software should never report success merely because it intended to do something.

Current systems work

  • Signal & Noise — correlates observable reality with telemetry and system claims, producing traceable evidence instead of opaque pass/fail output.
  • Life OS — a private, local-first system for human evidence, derived memory, model-assisted inference, and bounded actions with verification receipts.
  • Evaluation and AgentOps tooling — exercises assistants as operating systems: retrieval quality, capability selection, mutation verification, and behavioral regressions.

Much of the current work is private by design because it operates on personal evidence. The public projects below show the engineering foundations: data validation, video analysis, browser automation, API contracts, performance, security, and CI.


The through-line

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    A["Observed reality"] --> B["Traceable evidence"]
    B --> C["Correctable interpretation"]
    C --> D["Bounded action"]
    D --> E["Persisted verification"]
    E -. "new evidence" .-> B
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The implementation changes by domain. The boundary does not: observation is not inference, inference is not authority, and an attempted action is not a completed one.


Selected public work

Correlates what appeared on a device screen with what application telemetry claims happened. It derives independent timelines from video and telemetry, aligns them, and produces mismatch reports with timestamps and screenshot evidence.

Why it matters: telemetry is useful, but it is still a claim. The user-visible experience provides an independent source against which that claim can be tested.

Python · Pydantic · OpenCV · state machines · timeline correlation

An MCP server that turns browser telemetry into diagnoses: repeated console failures, slow endpoints, broken resources, performance regressions, and heap-growth patterns. Each result includes counts, timestamps, and a concrete next step.

Why it matters: raw observability creates more data. Useful observability reduces the distance between a signal and a justified action.

TypeScript · MCP · Chrome DevTools · performance · diagnostics

A production-style pipeline for simulated streaming events: ETL, dimensional models, data contracts, SQL and Python checks, anomaly detection, quality KPIs, and CI artifacts.

Why it matters: quality is strongest when it is designed into every transition, not added as a final inspection step.

Python · DuckDB · Pydantic · Pandera · FastAPI · GitHub Actions

A browser-driven agent that executes a deterministic ten-step smoke test and emits both machine-readable and human-readable results with meaningful exit codes.

Why it matters: autonomy becomes trustworthy when its scope, observations, and success conditions are explicit.

Playwright · JavaScript · structured reports · CI


Engineering foundations

The current systems work grew from years of hands-on quality engineering across UI, API, data, performance, security, and delivery pipelines.

Area Public evidence
Browser automation WebdriverIO · Playwright · Cypress
API and contracts Postman/Newman · Playwright API
Performance and security k6 + OWASP ZAP
Enterprise test strategy ERP Test Automation

How I work

  • Evidence before confidence. A useful claim should be traceable to what supports it.
  • Interpretation stays correctable. Model output can be valuable without becoming fact.
  • Verify the mutation. Software may claim an action only after persisted state confirms it.
  • Automation should remove orchestration. A system should reduce human coordination, not create another machine the human must constantly operate.
  • Reality gets veto power. When the model and the observed world disagree, inspect the world.

Working stack

Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript
Systems: React, Vite, Next.js, Node.js, FastAPI, REST, MCP
Evidence and data: Pydantic, DuckDB, Pandera, OpenCV, JSONL, state machines
Quality: Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO, Postman/Newman, k6, OWASP ZAP
Operations: GitHub Actions, Docker, Vercel, AWS, OpenSearch


Contact

Dustin Braun
Castle Rock, Colorado
Email · LinkedIn · GitHub


Quality engineering for systems that observe, infer, and act.

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  1. signal-noise-screen2events signal-noise-screen2events Public

    Python

  2. chrome-devtools-pattern-detector chrome-devtools-pattern-detector Public

    JavaScript

  3. video-data-quality-lab video-data-quality-lab Public

    Python

  4. website-functional-testing-agent website-functional-testing-agent Public

    Autonomous browser-based smoke-testing agent. Runs a deterministic 10-step flow against any website and outputs JSON + human-readable reports. Powered by Playwright.

    TypeScript

  5. cypress-erp-test-automation cypress-erp-test-automation Public

    JavaScript

  6. k6-zap-perfsec-automation k6-zap-perfsec-automation Public

    Production-ready k6 performance testing + OWASP ZAP security scanning framework with CI/CD

    JavaScript