Summary
Yann Stepienik is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years’ experience building and scaling product and media engineering organisations across startups and major publishers. Currently Head of Engineering at The Economist, he led the rapid design and rollout of a Next.js/Contentful CMS supporting thousands of sites and drives ads-tech, AI assistant and cross-group technical strategy. He combines hands-on systems expertise—from C/C++ and computer vision to React, Node.js, cloud architecture and DevOps—with proven people leadership including managing managers and distributed teams of up to 30. His background spans high-throughput web commerce, newsroom CMS migrations and startup fundraising stages, giving him a rare mix of product, client and budget ownership. Bilingual in French and English, Yann also brings a creative toolset (3D, media, audio/video) that informs pragmatic solutions to complex engineering and UX problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Business Informatics -MIAGE, Master's degree Business Informatics -MIAGE at Université de Lorraine
Bachelor Degree Business Informatics, Bachelor Degree Business Informatics at Université de lorraine
French, English, Spanish, Japanese