Aurel Lazar
Principal Software Engineer at Rec Room Inc.
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAurel Lazar is a Principal Software Engineer based in the Greater Seattle Area with a 15-year engineering background and nine years of focused industry experience delivering performance-sensitive game and platform systems. He has led cross-team initiatives at Rec Room—designing the Downloadable Avatar Item Pipeline and localization pipeline—that turned user-generated content into a marketplace and automated global release workflows. Equally at home in tooling, build systems, and platform ports, Aurel has shipped Rec Room on Xbox and Switch, improved CI/CD and Jenkins pipelines, and tightened memory and frame-rate budgets. Before that he scaled VR collaboration at ImmersedVR and strengthened authentication and build tooling at Microsoft, giving him deep experience across client, backend, and infrastructure. He also runs Cinderflame, LLC, applying his expertise to Unity tooling, performance engineering, and technical writing—an entrepreneurial thread that surfaces in his pragmatic, product-minded engineering. Known for bridging gameplay features with robust engineering practices, he excels at turning complex cross-disciplinary problems into automated, ship-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Spring Valley High SchoolB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Romanian, French
Github Skills (15)
elections8
plugin7
drone-ci7
jenkins-api-plugin7
jenkins6
jenkins-plugin6
asp-net5
gocd5
asp-net-core5
logger4
logging3
git-client3
structured-logging2
poco2
archived2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Aurel/rbya_election
Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
A small asp.net service for throwing together the RBYA elections
Contributions:49 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
electionsaspasp-netaspnetcoreasp-net-core
DifferentialX/M-Agribiz
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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