/* data.js — single source of truth for the portfolio "test suite" */ window.PORTFOLIO = { person: { first: "Ilia", last: "Dobkin", title: "Senior SDET", location: "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", email: "idobkin@gmail.com", phone: "+1 (647) 987-2792", linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/idobkin/", gitea: "https://git.levkin.ca", site: "https://iliadobkin.com", blurb: "Senior SDET with 20+ years delivering automation and release confidence for audit/financial software and regulated web (including real-money iGaming). Owns E2E and API test strategy — Playwright, Cypress, Selenium — contract testing against Swagger/OpenAPI, and performance baselines, integrated into CI/CD for fast, reliable feedback.", headline: "Built 300+ Playwright E2E + 250+ API tests; parallel CI runs consistently above ~95% pass rate; manual regression effort cut by ~50%.", }, // Master tag palette — used for the filter bar at top of sidebar tags: [ "@playwright","@cypress","@selenium","@api","@ci","@docker","@terraform", "@cloud","@a11y","@perf","@bdd","@ai","@infra","@leadership" ], // The "test suite" — each entry maps to a section on the page suite: { name: "Ilia Dobkin · portfolio", tests: [ { id: "about", title: 'should introduce Ilia Dobkin', tags: ["@playwright","@leadership"], duration: 142, steps: [ { kind: "info", title: 'navigate to /about', dur: 12 }, { kind: "ok", title: 'render bio', dur: 48 }, { kind: "ok", title: 'assert credentials', dur: 82 }, ], render: renderAbout }, { id: "experience", title: 'should list senior SDET experience', tags: ["@playwright","@api","@ci","@cloud","@leadership"], duration: 1280, steps: [ { kind: "ok", title: 'expect(roles.length).toBe(8)', dur: 38 }, { kind: "ok", title: 'assert chronological order', dur: 24 }, { kind: "ok", title: 'verify each role.bullets.length > 0', dur: 96 }, ], render: renderExperience }, { id: "skills", title: 'should expose @-tagged skills', tags: ["@playwright","@cypress","@selenium","@api","@bdd","@ci","@docker","@terraform","@cloud","@a11y","@perf","@ai"], duration: 412, steps: [ { kind: "ok", title: 'load tag registry', dur: 54 }, { kind: "ok", title: 'assign proficiency', dur: 84 }, ], render: renderSkills }, { id: "projects", title: 'should showcase self-hosted projects', tags: ["@infra","@ai","@playwright","@docker"], duration: 680, steps: [ { kind: "ok", title: 'discover proxmox homelab', dur: 120 }, { kind: "ok", title: 'validate MCP server', dur: 80 }, ], render: renderProjects }, { id: "stack", title: 'should describe daily stack', tags: ["@docker","@terraform","@infra","@ai"], duration: 320, steps: [ { kind: "ok", title: 'list editors and runtimes', dur: 40 }, { kind: "ok", title: 'list local LLM tools', dur: 36 }, ], render: renderStack }, { id: "leadership", title: 'should demonstrate quality leadership', tags: ["@leadership","@ci"], duration: 220, steps: [ { kind: "ok", title: 'mentor coverage stats', dur: 60 }, { kind: "ok", title: 'shift-left adoption', dur: 90 }, ], render: renderLeadership }, { id: "metrics", title: 'should report quality KPIs', tags: ["@ci","@perf"], duration: 96, steps: [ { kind: "ok", title: 'compute pass-rate', dur: 22 }, { kind: "ok", title: 'compute coverage', dur: 48 }, ], render: renderMetrics }, { id: "resume", title: 'should expose downloadable resume', tags: ["@playwright"], duration: 64, steps: [ { kind: "ok", title: 'render resume', dur: 24 }, { kind: "ok", title: 'assert download', dur: 18 }, ], render: renderResume }, { id: "contact", title: 'should accept inbound contact', tags: ["@api"], duration: 88, steps: [ { kind: "ok", title: 'expose email + linkedin', dur: 24 }, { kind: "ok", title: 'assert reachable', dur: 40 }, ], render: renderContact }, ] }, experience: [ { company: "Niyasoft Canada Inc.", role: "Senior QA Automation Engineer", when: "Aug 2023 – Apr 2026", where: "Vaughan, ON · remote · full-time", bullets: [ "Built & maintained 300+ Playwright E2E tests and 250+ API/integration tests plus performance suites for a regulated online-casino platform; coverage spanned happy-path, negative, workflow, page-navigation, and network request/response checks across payments, wallet/cashier, game/lobby, and back-office flows — cutting manual regression effort by ~50%.", "Stabilized the Playwright suite by replacing brittle waits with deterministic patterns and improving environment readiness, keeping daily pass rates consistently above ~95% across parallel CI stages.", "Validated responsible-gaming end-to-end — deposit/loss/session limits, self-exclusion, cooling-off, reality checks — supporting compliance posture across licensed wagering markets.", "Ran compliance-sensitive geo-eligibility scenarios with audit-friendly logging; traceability artifacts available for licensing reviews on demand.", "Optimized GitHub Actions pipelines (regression, functional, component, smoke) with parallelized stages and daily PR cadence on a high-availability real-money stack.", "Monitored GCP metrics and validated PostgreSQL-backed data integrity; prevented sev-1 incidents by catching performance regressions before release." ] }, { company: "RIOS Canada", role: "Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)", when: "Jun 2022 – Jul 2023", where: "Toronto, ON · remote · contract", bullets: [ "Built Cypress E2E and API suites (Swagger/OpenAPI) from scratch across core product flows; enabled every-commit CI checks and cut manual regression time ~40% per release.", "Introduced AODA/WCAG accessibility checks (alt text, keyboard nav, contrast) into Bitbucket CI gates, preventing accessibility regressions across web and mobile releases.", "Automated test-environment provisioning with Ansible — disposable, repeatable setups that shortened spin-up and eliminated pre-regression drift.", "Partnered with engineering and product on defect triage, risk-based prioritization, and pragmatic quality gates without blocking incremental delivery." ] }, { company: "Attabotics", role: "QA Automation Developer", when: "Sep 2021 – May 2022", where: "Calgary, AB · remote · contract", bullets: [ "Maintained 3,500+ SpecFlow/Gherkin scenarios with C# in .NET/Azure; owned flaky-test triage and kept daily build stability above ~90%.", "Practiced left-shift QA in a large Agile team — co-authored scenarios with developers early in the sprint, tightening Given/When/Then clarity.", "Stood up Docker-based local and CI-aligned test environments; used SQL Server for data setup, assertions, and traceability across integrated warehouse-automation workflows." ] }, { company: "Levkin Inc.", role: "Senior Software Developer", when: "Oct 2020 – Aug 2021", where: "Vaughan, ON · remote · contract", bullets: [ "Built reusable Playwright building blocks with deterministic patterns, eliminating arbitrary waits and measurably reducing suite flakiness.", "Audited and refactored legacy test and UI code; documented testing strategy and shared patterns across the team.", "Optimized GitLab CI/CD pipelines; piped test and pipeline metrics into Grafana dashboards for release visibility.", "Provisioned AWS (S3) environments with Terraform, validated end-to-end, and promoted to dev via the team's release procedure.", "Ongoing: self-hosted infrastructure lab and local-GPU AI assistant under the Levkin brand — see Projects." ] }, { company: "Accountants Templates Inc.", role: "Senior Software Developer", when: "Aug 2019 – Aug 2020", where: "Calgary, AB · remote · contract", bullets: [ "Owned CaseWare/CaseView template delivery including compliance updates, standards-driven releases, and documentation for internal and client use.", "Reviewed software for improvements and implemented recommendations; collaborated with support on reported issues.", "Automated build and packaging workflows, compressing ~8 hours of manual release effort to under 2 minutes per cycle." ] }, { company: "MNP LLP", role: "Senior Application Developer 2", when: "Aug 2017 – Jun 2019", where: "Toronto, ON · remote · full-time", bullets: [ "Developed and maintained C#, .NET, .NET Core applications integrating with CaseWare/CaseView; extended with JavaScript where specs required.", "Contributed automation strategy and hands-on Selenium/Cucumber work; managed Jenkins triggers, Cucumber reporting, and Azure DevOps pipelines." ] }, { company: "CaseWare International Inc.", role: "Software Developer", when: "Aug 2006 – Jun 2017", where: "Toronto, ON · hybrid · full-time", bullets: [ "Delivered features, defect fixes, and client templates (JavaScript, HTML, YUI, jQuery, CSS) for global financial/audit systems; automated validation with SilkTest.", "Mentored junior developers on conventions, debugging, and code review; built reusable JS libraries; Agile Scrum, Jira, Git." ] }, { company: "ROLI Consulting", role: "Web/Application Developer", when: "Jan 2001 – Jul 2012", where: "Vaughan, ON · remote · part-time", bullets: [ "Voice broadcasting and SMS service (Python, Twilio API); websites across multiple stacks; technical consulting for nonprofits and SMBs." ] }, { company: "Earlier Career — Kaboose · Coutts · EDS/Scotiabank", role: "QA Automation · Java Developer · ETL Co-op", when: "May 2005 – Aug 2006", where: "Toronto, ON", bullets: [ "QA automation with QTP/Quality Center, cross-browser and end-to-end testing, and UAT support (Kaboose); Java/J2EE development (Coutts); Informatica ETL co-op on AIX/DB2 (EDS/Scotiabank)." ] } ], skills: [ { name: "Test automation: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, SilkTest; UI, API, mobile, cross-browser; POM, BDD", level: 96, tags: ["@playwright","@cypress","@selenium","@bdd","@api"] }, { name: "Languages & frameworks: TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, .NET, Python, Java, Bash, Node.js", level: 92, tags: [] }, { name: "CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Azure DevOps; Git, Terraform, Ansible, Docker", level: 92, tags: ["@ci","@docker","@terraform"] }, { name: "Cloud & infra: AWS, Azure, GCP; Linux administration, Proxmox, Caddy, TrueNAS", level: 84, tags: ["@cloud","@infra"] }, { name: "Observability & performance: Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, DataDog, Artillery, k6, JMeter", level: 86, tags: ["@perf"] }, { name: "Data & domain: PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2; CaseWare/CaseView, audit & financial software", level: 78, tags: [] }, { name: "QA practices: BDD (SpecFlow, Cucumber), API testing (Postman, OpenAPI), accessibility (AODA/WCAG), risk-based testing, flaky-suite stabilization", level: 90, tags: ["@bdd","@a11y","@api"] }, { name: "Leadership & collaboration: mentoring, test strategy & docs, partnering with product/engineering on release risk and pragmatic gates", level: 84, tags: ["@leadership"] }, { name: "AI & LLM tooling: Cursor, local LLM, MCP servers, Copilot, Claude Code, Perplexity; GenAI-assisted test design", level: 82, tags: ["@ai"] }, { name: "Tooling & workflows: code review, trunk-based, feature flags, canary releases, observability-driven debugging", level: 78, tags: ["@ci"] }, ], projects: [ { name: "Levkin — Self-Hosted Infrastructure Lab", tags: ["@infra","@docker","@ci"], desc: "Proxmox-based homelab (VMs/LXC) running Gitea + CI runners, Vaultwarden, Vikunja, Uptime Kuma, Mailcow, Listmonk, n8n, SonarQube — provisioned via Ansible with Caddy edge TLS and TrueNAS backups. Full Linux admin: multi-domain DNS, firewall hardening, monitoring, repeatable deploys. Patterns directly informed production DevOps decisions in later roles." }, { name: "Levkin — Privacy-First Local AI Assistant", tags: ["@ai","@infra"], desc: "Tool-using assistant wired into mail & calendars (triage, drafts, scheduling) on local GPU inference — prompts and context stay on-LAN, no SaaS LLMs. Composable with homelab identity, TLS, secrets, and automation so event-driven workflows hand off without third-party model APIs." }, { name: "Levkin — Playwright MCP Server", tags: ["@ai","@playwright"], desc: "MCP server developers use from Cursor and other MCP-capable assistants while writing Playwright tests — surfaces selectors, fixtures, and in-repo conventions so generated specs stay aligned with team patterns." } ], stack: { Editors: ["Cursor", "VS Code", "iTerm2"], Languages: ["TypeScript","JavaScript","Python","C#","Bash"], Testing: ["Playwright","Cypress","Selenium","Postman","k6","Artillery","JMeter"], CI: ["GitHub Actions","GitLab","Jenkins","Azure DevOps","Bitbucket"], Infra: ["Docker","Proxmox","Terraform","Ansible","Caddy","TrueNAS"], AI: ["Cursor","Claude Code","Perplexity","Ollama (local)","MCP servers"] }, metrics: [ { label: "Playwright E2E tests authored", value: "300+" }, { label: "API / integration tests", value: "250+" }, { label: "Parallel CI daily pass rate", value: "≈ 95%+" }, { label: "Manual regression reduction", value: "≈ 50%" }, { label: "SpecFlow scenarios maintained", value: "3,500+" }, { label: "Years shipping software", value: "20+" } ] }; /* ----------- Section renderers ----------- */ function _esc(s){ return String(s).replace(/[&<>]/g,c=>({'&':'&','<':'<','>':'>'}[c])); } function _tags(arr){ return `
${arr.map(t=>`${t}`).join('')}
`; } function renderAbout(){ const p = PORTFOLIO.person; return `

${p.title} based in ${p.location}.

${p.blurb}

▸ ${p.headline}

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// portfolio.spec.ts import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test'; test('ilia is a senior SDET', async ({ page }) => { await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: /ilia dobkin/i })).toBeVisible(); });
contact() linkedin.profile
`; } function renderExperience(){ return `
${ PORTFOLIO.experience.map((e,i)=>`

${_esc(e.company)} — ${_esc(e.role)}

${_esc(e.when)} · ${_esc(e.where)}

`).join('') }
`; } function renderSkills(){ return `
${ PORTFOLIO.skills.map(s=>`
${s.name.replace(/\*\*(.+?)\*\*/g,'$1')}
${s.tags.length?`
${s.tags.map(t=>`${t}`).join('')}
`:''}
${s.level}%
`).join('') }
`; } function renderProjects(){ return `
${ PORTFOLIO.projects.map(p=>`
${_esc(p.name)}

${_esc(p.desc)}

${_tags(p.tags)}
`).join('') }
`; } function renderStack(){ return `
${ Object.entries(PORTFOLIO.stack).map(([k,v])=>`

${k}

${v.map(x=>`${x}`).join('')}
`).join('') }
`; } function renderLeadership(){ return `

Mentoring & strategy

Shift-left in practice

`; } function renderMetrics(){ return `
${ PORTFOLIO.metrics.map(m=>`
${_esc(m.value)}

${_esc(m.label)}

`).join('') }
`; } function renderResume(){ return `

Full PDF resume — generated from this same source of truth.

// resume renders inline using the print stylesheet — try ⌘P

`; } function renderContact(){ const p = PORTFOLIO.person; return `
${p.email}
${p.phone}
in/idobkin
git.levkin.ca
iliadobkin.com
${p.location}
`; }