Gor Stepanyan

Yerevan, Armenia

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Summary

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Gor Stepanyan is an ad tech founder and engineering leader with 8+ years building monetization platforms, header bidding stacks, and automated ad operations for publishers. As Co-Founder of AdRoot and Rootex and former CTO/Partner at Spike Media, he designs end-to-end revenue systems that combine Prebid, GAM, and analytics to squeeze higher yield and operational efficiency across dozens of properties. He pairs hands-on backend engineering—evident from contributions to the ScyllaDB Rust driver, adding UDT borrowing and schema refresh logic—with product-level thinking that created production-grade crypto ad networks and independent header-bidding servers. Based in Yerevan, he’s pragmatic about scaling ad infra under large traffic while also obsessing over automation that reduces manual ops. The result is a rare mix of developer craftsmanship, open-source contribution, and founder-level execution in ad monetization.

8 years of coding experience

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at DoubleClick University

High School, High School at Jermuk N2

Bachelor's degree Finance and Financial Management Services, Bachelor's degree Finance and Financial Management Services at Armenian State Agrarian University

English, Russian, Armenian

Github Skills (13)

cql10

rust10

scylla10

driver10

device-driver10

async9

schema9

schema-design9

asynchronous9

schema-org9

user-authentication8

authentication8

testing7

Programming languages (7)

JavaC++RustScalaJavaScriptGoPython

Github contributions (5)

scylladb/scylla-rust-driver

Mar 2022 - Jan 2023

Async CQL driver for Rust, optimized for ScyllaDB!

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:32 reviews, 7 commits, 13 PRs in 10 months

Contributions summary:Gor contributed to the ScyllaDB Rust driver by implementing features and improvements to the core functionality. They added the ability to borrow User Defined Type (UDT) fields and implemented Clone/Copy traits for essential data structures like `MaybeUnset` and `SessionBuilder`. Furthermore, the user enhanced the schema metadata management by adding a structure for view metadata and implementing a schema refresh mechanism upon schema changes. They also added support for custom authentication.

drivercqlcassandrarustscylladb

Gor027/scylla-cdc-rust

Nov 2021 - May 2023

Contributions:83 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 6 months

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