Felix Laura

Software Engineer at Joyent
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Austin, Texas, United States, US
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  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Mandarin Elementary proficiency

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Nader Sabzevari

Felix is an excellent and methodical software designer/developer. He is highly motivated individual who strives to excel in everything he does. He is not easily discouraged. He is honest and is driven to succeed in any task he performs. He is one of the most talented, knowledgeable and fun engineer to work with. I would love to have the opportunity to work with him again.

Vinny Arrigali

I have worked with Felix Laura in numerous professional capacities and have always been impressed with his leadership and unique ability to deliver critical solutions. He has demonstrated the ability to address both fine level detail and high level objectives. Felix has also shown the ability to effectively balance both managerial and individual contributor roles. He is a great team player, of high integrity, and has always contributed at an extremely high level. I would highly recommend Felix for any role requiring strong technical leadership.

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Credentials

  • Google Analytics Individual Qualification
    Google
    Aug, 2020
    - Sep, 2024

Experience

    • United States
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer
      • Oct 2020 - Present

      Joyent uses new technology and a start-up mentality while having the financial support of a large parent company. I look forward to many opportunities to work on cool technology and deliver awesome products. Joyent uses new technology and a start-up mentality while having the financial support of a large parent company. I look forward to many opportunities to work on cool technology and deliver awesome products.

    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Principle Software Engineer
      • Oct 2011 - Apr 2020

      Software Defined Storage configuration. Technical lead for Python development team that released 4 releases on time of high quality. Built development test environment on ESXI server to improve team productivity. Designed and developed hardware problem detection system to automatically notify service or customer issues. Used Ansible automation to configure test systems to improved development and QA test processes. Storage engineering development. As Dell develops its own products and expertise, I enjoy the opportunity to bring nas and iscsi devices to market. Through aquisition Dell has intellectual property right that allows them to enter the competition in the Storage space. My experience with many teams and technologies makes this an excellent opportunity to help Dell grow its software development teams. Show less

    • South Africa
    • Hospitality
    • Architect/Sr. Engineer
      • Sep 2009 - Oct 2011

      Development of a next generation whitelisting product that will allow complete virus protection for corporate assets, and still allow the updates and installation from secure sources. Responsibilities include Windows kernel driver development, as well as intercepting kernel calls though the undocumented windows internal structures. We use dll injection in user space, as well as system level intercepts to protect the system on 32 and 64 bit windows systems. Development of a next generation whitelisting product that will allow complete virus protection for corporate assets, and still allow the updates and installation from secure sources. Responsibilities include Windows kernel driver development, as well as intercepting kernel calls though the undocumented windows internal structures. We use dll injection in user space, as well as system level intercepts to protect the system on 32 and 64 bit windows systems.

    • United States
    • Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Technical Lead
      • May 2005 - Sep 2009

      I am a Technical Leader in the Internet Security business unit. My responsibilities include oversight of the teams development process, innovation for improving the efficacy of the inspection engines, and mentoring the software engineers on c++, design, and implementation in an embedded linux environment

    • Software Development Manager
      • Sep 2003 - Sep 2009

      I managed 30 engineers in the optical transport unit. We developed telecommunications hardware and software that provided 10 gig of electrical and optical interfaces. During this time we delivered all our projects on schedule, and within budget. The resulting sales generated over 400 million per year of revenue for Cisco.

    • Technical Lead
      • Sep 1999 - Sep 2009

      I was actually hired by Cerent corporation, which was acquired by Cisco. My responsibilities were to build and lead a new team in Richardson in the development of ATM optical transports at the OC/3 and OC/12 rates. Both the hardware and software development were within my team. I was also responsible to development of the control software for these transport cards

    • Information Technology & Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • CTO
      • 1997 - 1999

      I started a c++ training and consulting company specializing in mentoring on site for companies. We grew to 1,000,000 in gross revenues. Architect and mentor for medical distributed, web based imaging system written in C++ on Microsoft Windows. The database was Microsoft SQL, and utilized Apache server and Microsoft Internet Server for distribution. The server code was Isapi based and utilized ATL and COM for server communication. The presentation code was java based on high performance workstations. Show less

    • Consultant and Mentor
      • 1995 - 1997

      Mentor for large c++ web based digital imaging application for Kodak. The application provided remote review, and diagnoses of patient x-ray. Kodak knew the time for film was passing, and we were on the forefront of the move into digital imaging. Developed and taught the advanced c++ class. Mentor for large c++ web based digital imaging application for Kodak. The application provided remote review, and diagnoses of patient x-ray. Kodak knew the time for film was passing, and we were on the forefront of the move into digital imaging. Developed and taught the advanced c++ class.

    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer
      • 1987 - 1995

      I worked in IBM Research and education as a c++ and object oriented design instuctor. 50 % of our time was allocated to classroom presentation and 50% to research. As a software developer on IBM's C++ based operating system I was responsible for designing the input class api, and implementing the low level drivers to support keyboard and mouse events. I worked in IBM Research and education as a c++ and object oriented design instuctor. 50 % of our time was allocated to classroom presentation and 50% to research. As a software developer on IBM's C++ based operating system I was responsible for designing the input class api, and implementing the low level drivers to support keyboard and mouse events.

    • United States
    • Legal Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Programmer Analyst
      • May 1977 - Sep 1987

      I started out as a computer operator, and was promoted to the programming development department within 1 year. I enjoyed programming and worked as a programmer/analyst for about 7 years. Then I was promoted to development manager which was about 20% manager, 60% design, and 20% development. I started out as a computer operator, and was promoted to the programming development department within 1 year. I enjoyed programming and worked as a programmer/analyst for about 7 years. Then I was promoted to development manager which was about 20% manager, 60% design, and 20% development.

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