Alex Lazar
Senior Software Engineer at Halcyon
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Lazar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Santa Monica with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and performance-focused mobile features across startups and large tech firms. He has driven backend data pipelines and serverless architectures at Air Labs and Moveworks, optimized Android threading at Snap, and reduced operational toil with publishing and async systems at Amazon. Currently at Halcyon after senior roles at Kodex and Dandy, he combines rapid feature delivery with attention to reliability and maintainability. Comfortable across Node, Postgres, serverless Lambda, and mobile bridging, he has a track record of turning high-volume media and async workloads into dependable production services. Collected early experience teaching and curriculum work reflects a knack for explaining complex systems and mentoring teammates.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoMenlo School
Github Skills (127)
origami10
gist10
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mobile-development10
windows10
reactive10
relational10
wordpress10
app-framework10
skiasharp10
skia10
webassembly10
rust10
dart10
high-performance10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jollygreenlaser/screeps-starter-rust
Aug 2021 - Jul 2024
Starter Rust AI for Screeps, the JavaScript-based MMO game
Contributions:62 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 11 months
gamerustjavascriptmmoscreeps
jollygreenlaser/screeps-game-api
Nov 2020 - Jul 2024
Typed bindings to the Screeps in-game API for WASM Rust AIs
Contributions:6 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 8 months
apigame-apirustin-gamewebassembly
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