Biography

I am a researcher and an engineer with a PhD from the Systems Group of ETH Zurich. My focus is on computer systems, distributed systems, cloud orchestration, and resource management. I was advised by Prof. Dr. Ana Klimovic and co-advised by Prof. Dr. Timothy Roscoe. I received my MSc and BSc degrees from the University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering in Serbia.

News

• June 2026: I have successfully defended my PhD at ETH Zurich. I am currently looking for an engineer or research position in industry in the broad area of computer systems, preferably in Zurich.
• November 16, 2025: I will present our latest research vision on service meshes at SoCC'25 on November 19th
• October 13, 2025: I will attend SOSP'25 in Seoul and will present a poster on October 14th
• March 31, 2025: I will be giving an overview of our Dirigent SOSP'24 paper with a live demo at the SESAME'25 workshop at ASPLOS/EuroSys in Rotterdam
• November 5, 2024: I will be presenting Dirigent: Lightweight Serverless Orchestration at SOSP'24 in Austin, TX

Publications

• Towards a Lightweight Sidecar-based Service Mesh for Serverless
  Lazar Cvetković, Ana Klimovic
  Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2025
  Paper
• Unlocking True Elasticity for the Cloud-Native Era with Dandelion
  Tom Kuchler, Pinghe Li, Yazhuo Zhang, Lazar Cvetković, Boris Goranov, Tobias Stocker, Leon Thomm, Simone Kalbermatter, Tim Notter, Andrea Lattuada, Ana Klimovic
  Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2025
  Paper | Code
• Dirigent: Lightweight Serverless Orchestration
  Lazar Cvetković, François Costa, Mihajlo Djokic, Michal Friedman, Ana Klimovic
  Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 30th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2024
  Paper | Blog | Code
• Understanding the Neglected Cost of Serverless Cluster Management
  Lazar Cvetković, Rodrigo Fonseca, Ana Klimovic
  Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Resource Disaggregation and Serverless (WORDS), ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2023
  Paper
• Enabling In-Vitro Serverless Systems Research
  Dmitrii Ustiugov, Dohyun Park, Lazar Cvetković, Mihajlo Djokic, Hongyun Hè, Boris Grot, Ana Klimovic
  Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Resource Disaggregation and Serverless (WORDS), ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2023
  Paper | Code
• PaSh: light-touch data-parallel shell processing - best paper award
  Nikos Vasilakis, Konstantinos Kallas, Konstantinos Mamouras, Achilles Benetopoulos, Lazar Cvetković
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2021
  Paper | Code

Teaching

• Systems Programming and Computer Architecture
• Cloud Computing Architecture