Dorde Lapcevic
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDorde Lapcevic is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead based in Mountain View with four years of professional experience building cloud-native systems at Google after earlier engineering work in Serbia. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with leadership across multiple Google sites, driving stability and performance in distributed components and operator code. An active open-source contributor, Dorde made notable contributions to the widely used Cilium project—improving Cilium Endpoint Slice batching, fixing race conditions and crash scenarios, and enhancing observability metrics. He’s drawn to large-scale systems that push technical boundaries and enjoys turning subtle concurrency and operational problems into robust, measurable solutions. Colleagues value his blend of pragmatic engineering, metric-driven decision making, and genuine enthusiasm for learning and advancing platform tooling.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, Serbian, Croatian, German, Ukrainian
Github Skills (19)
debugging10
kubernetes10
debug10
develop10
ebpf10
networking10
cilium10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
monitoring9
cicd9
kubernetes-networking9
performance-optimization9
cni8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:205 reviews, 55 PRs, 404 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dorde primarily contributed to the Cilium project by enhancing the Cilium Endpoint Slice (CES) functionality, focusing on improvements to its batching mode and identity management. They implemented changes to optimize CEP (CiliumEndpoint) insertions into CESs, ensuring they were added to the largest available CES to minimize updates. Additionally, the user addressed critical issues, such as fixing potential crashes related to CES queue delay metrics and race conditions in identity map access, ensuring the stability of the operator. The user also refactored code and updated metrics to provide more comprehensive tracking of policy changes and CES sync events.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
dlapcevic/perf-tests
Jul 2021 - Jan 2025
Performance tests and benchmarks
Contributions:380 pushes, 53 branches in 3 years 6 months
stress-testingbenchmarkingperformance-analysisperformance-testsbenchmark
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