Vadym Stepanov

Leading a team of 7–10 engineers in the design and delivery of a multitenant SaaS platform for e-commerce product content transformation, with strict client data isolation enforced at the database level. Architected and implemented high-performance product content search systems featuring faceted search, autocomplete suggestions, and partial matching at scale using ElasticSearch. Initiated and led the adoption of Infrastructure as Code for the company's DigitalOcean environment using Terraform and Ansible.

Participated in the planning and founding of Gepard PIM — contributing to the initial product vision, architecture decisions, and early development of what is now an AI-first multitenant SaaS PIM platform. Helped establish the core foundations of the product content transformation engine that the platform is built upon today.

Worked on outstaff client projects focused on product data transformation and enrichment, including integration with the Icecat product content platform across catalogs of up to 1 million products. Gained deep domain expertise in product data structures, taxonomies, and large-scale content processing pipelines. - Migration of the company product from Yii 1.x+MySQL+ElasticSearch to Yii 2.x+MongoDB+ElasticSearch - Building SaaS projects for the B2B client from the Netherlands

Contributed to backend web development with a notable involvement in migrating a search infrastructure from Apache Solr to ElasticSearch 1.x, improving product search relevance and query performance.