Anton Bazhal
Principal Software Developer, Team Lead at D2L
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAnton Bazhal is a Principal Software Developer and team lead with 11 years of experience building cost-conscious, serverless microservices and cloud infrastructure at scale. He specializes in Node.js, Serverless Framework, Terraform, Elasticsearch and a wide range of AWS services (Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, S3, SQS/SNS, Step Functions), and has a strong background in NoSQL, relational databases and containerized deployments. Anton blends backend expertise with front-end and mobile experience (Angular, Cordova, Ionic, native Android) and early-career embedded systems work, giving him a rare full-stack-to-hardware perspective. At D2L he drives technical standards, performs cost optimization and mentors engineers while leading design reviews and delivery of microservice architectures. He also brings formal process rigor from ISO‑certification work and hands-on ops experience, making him comfortable owning systems end-to-end. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he pairs practical engineering with clear communication and a penchant for optimizing both cost and operational simplicity.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electronics (Avionics), Master's degree, Electronics (Avionics) at National Aviation UniversityMobile Solutions Development (2 year graduate certificate program), Information Technology, GPA 4.0, Mobile Solutions Development (2 year graduate certificate program), Information Technology, GPA 4.0 at Conestoga College
English, Ukrainian, Russian
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Github Skills (92)
invocation10
azure-functions10
terraform10
publish10
aws-elasticsearch10
serverless10
amazon-elasticsearch10
cloudwatch-alarms10
lambda10
serverless-plugin10
serverless-architectures10
cloud-services10
json10
aws-lambda10
google-cloud-functions10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AntonBazhal/dynamo2es-lambda
Dec 2016 - Aug 2021
Configurable AWS Lambda handler to index documents from DynamoDB Streams in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Contributions:7 reviews, 72 commits, 82 PRs in 4 years 9 months
amazon-elasticsearchaws-lambdadynamodblambda
Brightspace/serverless-plugin-aws-alerts
Jan 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 22 PRs in 5 years 8 months
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