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Lucas Stella

Senior Test Automation Engineer · Becton Dickinson

I build the tools that make software teams faster — test frameworks, developer tooling, and the automation that ties them together. Currently working in TypeScript and Playwright from Portland, OR.

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  1. 2024presentAshland, OR

    Senior Test Automation Engineer

    Becton Dickinson

    Own end-to-end test automation for FlowJo, BD's flow cytometry analysis platform used by research labs worldwide.

    • Cut automated test suite duration by 50%.
    • Rebuilt the Page Object Model in strictly typed TypeScript for long-term maintainability.
    • Drive behavior-driven testing with Playwright, Cucumber-JS, and Gherkin so scientists and engineers share one spec.
    • TypeScript
    • Playwright
    • Cucumber-JS
    • Gherkin
    • CI/CD
  2. 20212024Hillsboro, OR

    Development Tools Engineer

    Intel

    Built the internal CLI and developer tooling used to bring up Intel's next-generation SmartNICs and datacenter networking hardware.

    • Worked directly with stakeholder teams to scope, ship, and test features.
    • Helped drive a rework of the team's development workflow.

    projects/

    • SmartNIC bring-up toolingCLI and developer tools for validating new datacenter networking silicon.
    • TypeScript
    • C++
    • CLI Tooling
    • CI/CD
  3. Jun 2019Sep 2020Ashland, OR

    Software Engineering Intern

    Becton Dickinson

    Front-end engineering on an upcoming biomedical research tool, working alongside the design team.

    • Built a unified front-end component library with designers.
    • Engineered legacy project-file support for an existing application.
    • Extended unit test coverage across the codebase.
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Jest
    • UI/UX Design

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  1. MillWise console sign-in page: Master your production line

    Product

    MillWise

    A production-line console for industrial flooring machinery: real-time logging of serial traffic from the machines, diagnostics, device management, and a point-of-capture interface for operators on the floor.

    • Has processed over 50,000 square feet of flooring production data.
    • Cut operational costs enough to save the business thousands of dollars.
    • Serial I/O
    • Data logging
  2. QuoteGen Pro landing page: hero headline beside the Visual Design Studio mockup tool

    Product

    QuoteGen Pro

    AI-powered visual proposals for contractors. Describe the change and it generates a mockup of the finished job on the customer's own photo, so the quote shows the result before work begins.

    • Custom-rolled cloud CI/CD: low cost, zero-downtime deploys.
    • Responsive layouts built for mobile and desktop.
    • Email integrations for sending and tracking proposals.
    • Client portals where customers review and respond to quotes.
    • Generative AI
    • CI/CD
    • Cloud infrastructure
    • Responsive UI
    • Email integration
  3. Room Tone watchlist showing lamps and stands at their lowest seen price

    Product

    Room Tone

    A price watchlist for warm, well-made pieces for the home. Tracks pieces from makers like TALA, Yamazaki, and Twelve South and flags when a price is the lowest it has seen.

    • Product scraping
    • Price tracking
    • Internal tooling
    • Social media content generation
    • Data pipelines
  4. FireWatch web dashboard showing a wildfire hotspot map

    Capstone · Collins AerospaceTeam lead2020 — 2021

    FireWatch Aerial Guardian

    A drone-based system that gives airborne firefighting crews real-time wildfire data, built with Collins Aerospace as an Oregon State capstone.

    • Designed and built a low-cost, scalable backend on AWS.
    • Shipped the user-facing frontend for crews in the air.
    • Wrote a GPU-compute application for hotspot localization.
    • AWS
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • ROS
    • C++
    • GPU compute
  5. Residue interaction network graph of a hemoglobin structure

    Coursework

    Hemoglobin Interaction Network Analysis

    Compared residue interaction networks across several homologous hemoglobin protein structures to measure how related they are.

    • Network analysis
    • Bioinformatics
  6. Recipro recipe page

    Personal

    Recipro

    A recipe hosting site for creating, sharing, and combining recipes.

    • Node.js
    • SQL
  7. Aerial still from a drone flight

    Personal7+ years

    Drone Videography

    Freestyle and cinematic flying on both DJI and FPV drones, chasing the feeling of weightlessness on camera.

    • Custom Built FPV
    • Long range
    • Cinematic
    • Racing
  8. LED light bar with 3D-printed and vacuum-formed enclosure

    UW Maker SummitUndergrad Design Award2018

    Smartphone-controlled LED Display

    An ESP8266-driven LED display controlled from a phone, with CAD-designed parts that were 3D printed, laser cut, and vacuum formed.

    • Won the 2018 University of Washington Undergrad Design Award.
    • ESP8266
    • CAD
    • 3D printing
    • Laser cutting
    • Vacuum forming