Nikita Lazarev
Co-Founder And CTO at Netpreme
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Lazarev is a founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building low-latency, hardware-accelerated systems for cloud and AI workloads. As Co-Founder and CTO of Netpreme, he’s tackling the AI memory wall by bringing datacenter systems and accelerator expertise to production infrastructure. His background includes PhD research roles at Google and Microsoft focused on datacenter systems, hardware accelerators, and realtime cloud-native services (vRAN), plus FPGA-focused internships that informed his hands-on approach to system design. Earlier work at Samsung on system programming, compilers and ARM/Android internals rounds out his full-stack systems pedigree. Trained at MIT, EPFL and Bauman MSTU, he combines rigorous academic research with practical engineering to ship low-latency, scalable solutions. He’s notable for translating FPGA and accelerator research into deployable caching and inference layers—bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and operational infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneUndergraduate, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Undergraduate, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Russian, English, French
Github Skills (37)
pytorch9
amd9
inference9
cuda9
gpt8
transformer8
compiler-construction8
llama8
llm8
intermediate8
tpu8
programming-language7
firecracker7
llmops7
aws7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
barabanshek/barabanshek.github.io
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:68 commits, 71 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
barabanshek/Dagger
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:121 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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