Igor Lubashev
Director Of Engineering at Akamai Technologies
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolIgor Lubashev is a seasoned engineering leader and Director of Engineering at Akamai with over two decades of experience building high-performance, distributed and fault-tolerant Internet systems. He rose through technical and managerial ranks at Akamai from principal engineer to director, combining deep systems architecture chops with people leadership and delivery accountability. Igor’s background includes production-grade work on protocol and transport-level code—he has contributed to a minimal QUIC implementation and improved low-level parsing and robustness in networking code. Prior to Akamai he held senior roles at Oracle and led platform architecture at Everypoint, reflecting a blend of research-grade rigor (MIT MEng) and enterprise-scale execution. Known for pragmatic code-level interventions even as a director, he brings an engineer’s eye to design, optimization, and operational resilience. Based in Boston, he pairs long-term systems thinking with hands-on problem solving that reduces complexity and improves reliability.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Russian
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
command-line-parser10
c1110
quic10
networking10
command-line10
c-libraries9
c-library9
clib9
stream6
assert6
android6
tuples6
java6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
private-octopus/picoquic
Oct 2017 - Dec 2018
Minimal implementation of the QUIC protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 23 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Igor primarily contributed to the minimal QUIC protocol implementation by adding and integrating the `getopt` library for command-line option parsing in the demo application. They updated the picoquic demo to utilize the `getopt` functionality and refactored stream frame header parsing for enhanced efficiency. The user further addressed warnings and implemented default cases within switch statements to improve code quality, and refactored ACK frame parsing and frame decoding functions.
protocolquicietfblockchain
igorlord/draft-lubashev-quic-partial-reliability
Dec 2017 - Apr 2022
Partial Reliability support in QUIC
Contributions:1 PR, 71 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 5 months
quicreliabilitypartial
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