Gor Stepanyan
Co-Founder at Rootex
Yerevan, Armenia
Summary
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Top SchoolGor 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
6 years of employment as a software developer
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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 (8)
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
Back-end DeveloperContributions: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.
asynccqldriverrustscylladb
Gor027/scylla-cdc-rust
Nov 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:83 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 6 months
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