Summary
Vanja Stepnow is a product-led technology executive with 10 years of experience building AI-enabled products and developer-facing integrations, now serving as Chief Product Officer at a stealth AI startup in Portugal. He combines hands-on engineering roots—developing core async processing at Intento and leading intranet and analytics platforms—with product leadership across startups and enterprise teams like Altium. Vanja has co-founded multiple ventures, translating technical prototypes into market-ready SaaS and data-driven products, and he thinks of technology through the lens of the job users hire it to do. Comfortable at the intersection of generative AI, integrations, and collaboration tooling, he has repeatedly shipped connectors and platforms that speed creative work and enterprise workflows. His background in bioinformatics from MSU and an exchange at ETH Zürich gives him a research-informed approach to problem framing and experimentation. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who surfaces non-obvious user jobs to shape novel product opportunities.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange, Bioinformatics, Exchange, Bioinformatics at ETH Zürich
Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services at Founder Institute
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, German, Russian