Brian C Stevenson

I expect to graduate from CSU Long Beach with MS Computer Science in December 2025, so I'm looking for roles to start in January 2026. My resume is more concise than this portfolio.

Current Readings

• Baker Gill Solovay Theorem
• A First Course In Graph Theory - Gary Chartrand and Ping Zhang

Past Readings

• Part 1 of Extremal Combinatorics - Stasys Jukna
• Jonathan Katz' Lecture Notes on Ladner's Theorem
• 2 Chapters of Gems of Theoretical Computer Science - Uwe Schöning:
  • The Pebble Game
  • The Equivalence Problem for Loop(1) and Loop(2) Programs
• One-Tape, Off-Line Turing Machine Computations - F.C. Hennie
• Alternation Chapter of Structural Complexity II - José Luis Balcázar
• On Time Versus Space And Related Problems - John Hopcroft
• Short Exerpts of Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Michael Sipser
• While Savitch's Theorem is in several of these books I've only learned it in class

Practical Computer Science

Monolithic Tech Stacks

My growth in computer science really started when I played around with game servers circa 2017, I happened to be taking some AP Computer Science courses around this time. I shortly moved on to learn applicable things starting with FTP, SSH, and Apache Web Server. My first dynamic web pages were on a LAMP stack featuring a login system. Since then, my favorite stack I've become familiar with is Debian, nginx, and Postgres. I love backend programming in frameworks like Flask and Actix Web. I've learned some React over a few projects.

Containerization and Orchestration

My first time using Docker was around 2023 however after migrating a couple projects I wanted to get more serious. Now I containerize most of my newer deployments and set up my own private registry for my homelab K8S baremetal cluster to pull from.

Readings

While my reading for theoretical CS is mostly self-driven, my applied CS readings were all so I could write to a criteria.

• In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm - Diego Ongaro June 2014
• Understanding Neural Networks Through Deep Visualization - Jason Yosinski June 2015
• Ungeneralizable Examples - Jingwen Ye April 2024
• PentestGPt: Evaluating and Harnessing Large Language Models for Automated Penetration Testing - Gelei Deng August 2024
• Turning manual web accessibility success criteria into automatic: an LLM‑based approach - Juan‑Miguel López‑Gil March 2024
• On the Tussle Between Over-the-Top and Internet Service Providers: Analysis of the Netflix- Comcast Type of Deals - Xin Wang September 2020

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