Anton Kovalyov
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAnton Kovalyov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vancouver with a decade of experience building high-scale web services and advancing software supply chain security at Microsoft. He blends deep backend expertise in JS/TS, C#, Python and Go with practical cloud and IaC experience on Azure using Terraform and Bicep, plus serverless and containerized architectures. Anton has shipped distributed microservices, improved site reliability and observability, and helped implement SBOM tooling—contributing to Microsoft’s enterprise-grade SPDX-compatible sbom-tool repository. Comfortable across the stack, he also brings front-end skills in React and WCAG accessibility to ensure usable, compliant interfaces. He favors clean code, testing, and scalable design, and is driven by tackling security-sensitive, high-load challenges while continuously expanding his toolset. An oft-overlooked strength: he combines developer tooling improvements with production reliability, making secure open-source consumption practical for teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Engineering Ergonomics, Bachelor's degree Engineering Ergonomics at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, Russian
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Github Skills (14)
asp-net10
net10
sbom10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
refactor9
refactoring9
configuration-management7
typehinting6
session-cookie6
python6
annotations6
python-requests6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/sbom-tool
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
The SBOM tool is a highly scalable and enterprise ready tool to create SPDX 2.2 compatible SBOMs for any variety of artifacts.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 75 reviews, 54 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily focused on updating and refactoring code within the project, specifically modifying namespaces, folder structures, and project files. They made significant changes within the `Microsoft.Sbom.Parsers.Spdx22SbomParser` directory, indicating work on parsing SBOM data. Additionally, the user added package descriptions and implemented a fix related to manifest folder deletion. The commits demonstrate a focus on the project's internal structure and configuration.
sbomspdxsbom-generator
microsoft/azure-devops-extension-cascading-picklist
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Azure DevOps extension to enable cascading picklists on the work item form
Contributions:57 commits, 35 PRs, 27 pushes in 6 months
azure-devopsazure-devops-extensionazure-boards
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