Anton Lazarev
Adblock Research Engineer at Brave Software
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnton Lazarev is an Adblock Research Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of hands-on systems and open-source development experience, specializing in secure, high-performance Rust code for privacy and content-blocking at Brave. He has contributed to high-impact projects including Brave's Rust adblock engine and Brave Core UI work, plus platform-sensitive systems work on Solana, demonstrating fluency across back-end, front-end, and mobile stacks. His background in computer architecture, power modeling at AMD, and CUDA benchmarking shows a deep appreciation for performance at both hardware and software levels. Anton pairs practical engineering—ship-ready parsing/matching optimizations, CSS parsing for a desktop GUI framework, and Android input features—with rigorous testing and cross-platform compatibility fixes. He brings a maker’s curiosity from prototyping carbon-fiber parts to building production-grade open-source tools, and publishes further work at https://antonok.com.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
3.83/4.0 GPA, 3.83/4.0 GPA at Lexington High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering and Computer Science with Math Minor, 3.93/4.0 GPA, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering and Computer Science with Math Minor, 3.93/4.0 GPA at Northeastern University
English, French, mandarin chinese (simplified)
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Github Skills (39)
javascript10
system-programming10
testing10
css10
user-interface10
data-structure10
java10
javas10
solana10
performance-optimization10
android10
blockchain10
cad10
data-structures10
rust10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
brave/adblock-rust
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Brave's Rust-based adblock engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:99 reviews, 313 commits, 196 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily focused on enhancing the adblocking engine's functionality, making improvements to the filter parsing and matching logic. They introduced a new format for the rule's parsing to support more features. Additionally, the user improved the content blocking capabilities, specifically for document and redirect options. The changes made by the user included performance optimizations for the matching engine.
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brave/brave-core
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:757 reviews, 637 commits, 431 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily focused on front-end development, adding a context menu item for custom filter management. Their contributions involved modifying Brave Shields API code, creating new UI elements, implementing features like scriptlet injection, and writing associated tests. These changes indicate an active role in enhancing the user interface and functionality related to ad-blocking features.
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