Lawrence Bakst
Principal Engineer at AT&T Labs, Inc.
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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SeniorLawrence Bakst is a Principal Engineer and veteran of six high-tech startups with 13+ years in leadership and over four decades of deep systems and product engineering experience. He combines executive-level skills in budgeting, IP, and due diligence with hands-on technical expertise—especially in Go, realtime networking, wireless systems, and embedded Linux. Lawrence has a track record of scaling teams, instituting engineering processes, and shipping hardware-software products faster (e.g., leading language and tooling shifts to Go, Docker, Git/GitHub at Vigilent). Equally comfortable in early-stage startups and corporate labs, he blends product design insight with low-level systems programming and RF/PHY knowledge. Based in New Jersey, he’s known for turning complex technical domains into practical, market-winning products while mentoring teams through uncertainty.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (63)
human-readable10
keccak10
programming-language10
int6410
skein10
interpreter10
security10
http-server10
go10
golang10
odin10
goplus9
prefixes9
reverse-proxy9
cockroachdb9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tildeleb/hashland
Dec 2014 - Mar 2021
Go versions of murmur, cityhash, jenkins, spooky, sbox, crapwow, siphash, keccak, skein and more
Contributions:60 commits, 19 pushes, 6 tags in 6 years 4 months
golangjenkinsspookymurmurkeccak
tildeleb/hrff
Mar 2013 - Mar 2021
Allows "human readable" (SI unit prefixes) numeric flags and the formatting of int64 and float64 in human readable format with an optional units string.
Contributions:43 commits, 7 pushes, 1 tag in 8 years
kebab-casestringreadableflagsprefixes
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