FPGA Technologies was founded by Lucas Szajek in 2004. Lucas holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree from Ryerson University and a Masters in "Adaptive Reconfigurable Group Organized Parallel Computing Platform for Data Flow Tasks" from the University of Hertfordshire,UK. His expertise has been recognised from working at big companies such as MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates (MDA-formerly known as MD Robotics/SPAR Aerospace) in Brampton Ontario as well as Cisco (formerly known as Scientific Atlanta).