Mike Lazar
Senior Director at Celestica
Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Lazar is a seasoned software and networking leader with over three decades of hands-on experience designing software architectures for complex systems, from embedded real-time applications and mobile frameworks to Infrastructure-as-a-Service, microservices and containerized network operating systems. He has driven architecture and delivery at scale for major vendors—leading Dell’s OS10 and SONiC efforts and architecting AI-ready network fabrics and orchestration for integrated AI solutions—and now leads AI Technologies at Celestica. Known for translating customer requirements into operational platforms, he combines deep protocol and network management expertise with a developer’s pragmatism and frequent collaboration with geographically distributed teams. An engineer-turned-executive, he retains strong coding and simulation background dating back to telecommunications research and consulting across North America and Europe.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
M.A.Sc., Electrical Engineering - Telecommunications, M.A.Sc., Electrical Engineering - Telecommunications at University of OttawaBEng, Honours, Computer Engineering - Software, BEng, Honours, Computer Engineering - Software at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
English, French, Romanian, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (19)
switch10
abstraction10
sdn9
sonic9
gns39
networking9
virtual-network9
armv69
harbor7
binary-image6
container5
azure4
build-environment4
security3
linux1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
open-switch/opx-nas-l3
Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 issue in 3 years 4 months
mikelazar/sonic-buildimage
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
installablesonicbinary-imageimage-build
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