Rick Yazwinski
Principal Software Engineer at Meta
Fonthill, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRick Yazwinski is a Principal Software Engineer with four decades of hands-on coding and leadership experience, currently shaping large-scale systems at Meta after senior engineering roles at Amazon and Tucows. He specializes in architecture, agile transformations, organizational turnarounds, and M&A preparation—having built core BSS platforms that helped grow Solect into an acquisition by Amdocs. Comfortable writing production code in Python, C, Java and managing high-volume, real-time systems, he prefers roles that combine technical ownership with people leadership rather than pure executive management. Known for reviving chaotic operations into highly available services and for mentoring engineering teams, he treats culture and process as engineering problems to be iteratively solved. Based in Fonthill, Ontario, he still ships code daily and brings a pragmatic, systems-first perspective shaped by both startup scrappiness and large-company scale.
16 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
Honors High School Diploma Math Science, Honors High School Diploma Math Science at Dunnville Secondary SchoolBMath (incomplete) Pure Math and CS, BMath (incomplete) Pure Math and CS at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (12)
api7
debugging6
gdb6
php6
iot-cloud6
inject6
python5
monitoring4
iot4
bitmap2
internet-of-things2
cython2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ryazwinski/coffee
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:79 commits in 1 month
ryazwinski/mcat
Apr 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:20 commits in 3 days
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