Vahag Byurat

Senior SDET · Test Infrastructure & Automation

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Selected Works

Exploratory Learning
MESHWATCH Lab

A distributed sensor-mesh simulator deployed four increasingly real ways: systemd containers, a Compose rack running real chrony and ptp4l, a cloud-init VM, then Ansible.

Exploratory Learning
Distributed Device Farm

Cross-platform Appium/Selenium grid for streaming clients. One page-object layer drives web, phones and TVs, and the grid reaches real hardware on another network.

Developer Tools
Dragonote

Codebase-to-LLM context exporter: a Rust CLI and Tauri desktop app sharing one scanning engine, with token-exact budgets and automatic splitting.

Open Source · Gaming
AoE2 HD Crossover

Running Age of Empires II HD Edition on Apple Silicon via Wine, Rosetta 2, and open-source tooling. No Windows, no paid software.

Quantitative Tooling
Options Risk Engine

Portfolio margin and liquidity engine. Computes exact margin in closed form by proving the worst case always lands on a strike, with no price-grid simulation.

Exploratory Learning
Learning Dojo

Zero-dependency adaptive flashcard trainer: Elo mastery with flow control, and an answer auto-grader implemented twice against one shared test suite.

Browser Extension
Better IG Reels

Chrome extension that keeps Instagram Reels at the highest available quality: it preloads upcoming videos and signals a fast connection before the ABR player makes its first quality call. Research notes included.

Web App
Gallerena

A gallery that ranks itself. Images meet in head-to-head matchups, and Elo scoring surfaces the best of the collection.

Productivity
Tomato Dragon

Gamified Pomodoro timer with task tracking and a dragon companion whose mood follows your focus sessions. One Rust egui codebase for desktop and WASM.

Proofs of Concept
More From the Workbench

Security & privacy studies, embedded low-level synth controllers with VST integration, file-archiving swiss-army tools, and the white papers behind them, surfacing here as each is readied for release.