Vyacheslav Stepanov is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Berlin with over 15 years of professional experience building and operating high‑scale distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures. He has a deep Java background and has driven production-critical projects moving 100+ TB/day and 100K+ events/sec at Zalando, as well as pricing and terms services at AWS using a broad set of cloud-native tools. He combines hands-on implementation and testing (notably security and OAuth work on the open-source Nakadi event bus) with four-plus years of team leadership and architecture ownership. Comfortable across the stack—from API design and Kafka-centered event buses to DynamoDB/Lambda ecosystems—he focuses on reliable, observable systems for high load Big Data environments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic tech design, solid operational practices, and steady delivery under scale.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'
A distributed event bus that implements a RESTful API abstraction on top of Kafka-like queues
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:15 releases, 190 commits, 380 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Vyacheslav primarily focused on implementing and testing security features and improving API functionality for the Nakadi event bus. They added tests for OAuth authentication modes, including basic and full modes. The user also addressed the issue of event publishing and compressed events by adding a test to accept a compressed body. They also introduced methods to retrieve subscriptions from the database.
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 3 days
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