Eric Lauzier
Security Manager at Payments Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEric Lauzier is a Security Manager in Ottawa with over 25 years of Signals Intelligence, cyber security and incident management experience applied across military and federal public service contexts. He has led multidisciplinary teams through operational cyber defence, digital forensics and security monitoring, and now directs security strategy at Payments Canada. Equally comfortable with hands-on technical work and people leadership, he has a track record of translating complex intelligence and threat data into practical mitigations for critical infrastructure. Eric also contributes to open-source data engineering projects—helping improve Apache Iceberg and DataHub integrations—bringing a surprising developer-first perspective to enterprise security. His background marrying SIGINT tradecraft with modern back-end contributions gives him a rare ability to bridge classified operational requirements and open-source cloud data tooling.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
python10
apache10
data-ingestion10
apache-iceberg10
ice10
filesystem9
azuread9
metadata9
data-catalog9
pytest8
decimal8
discovery8
bigdecimal8
discovery-service8
auto-discovery8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
datahub-project/datahub
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
The Metadata Platform for your Data and AI Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on back-end improvements, specifically addressing bugs and implementing features in the data ingestion pipeline. They fixed a Superset chart ingestion issue and implemented support for nested groups in Azure AD ingestion. Furthermore, they worked on modifying the Iceberg integration to support complex map key types and upgraded the pydantic version. These contributions show a focus on improving data ingestion and integration with external services.
data-managementdata-discoverydata-stackmodern-data-stackdata-catalog
apache/iceberg
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the Python codebase of the Apache Iceberg project. Their work involved fixing encoding issues related to boolean values and addressing type inconsistencies in the codebase. They also added support for map types and decimal type conversions, enhancing the project's functionality and data handling capabilities. Furthermore, the user contributed to integrating support for the Azure Data Lake FileSystem (ADLFS) within the project's file system operations and console CLI improvements.
apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava
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