Andrew Stepin

andrew.stepin {at} gmail.com • linkedin.com/in/astepin • github.com/0101011

Current Stack

Experience

Technical PM

Yomly • 02/2022 – Present

  • Own client/internal content for B2B HR tech enterprise SaaS for HRIS HRMS & payroll automation.
  • Delivered 10+ features and visually-engaging product decks, tech specs enabling sales to 120+ demos.
  • Raised product satisfaction scores by 40% as measured by post-demo surveys (800+ responses NPS), created templatized content in Zendesk, guiding finance stakeholders in time-restricted runway (we're backed).
  • Slashed release cycle by 2x from 4 to 2 weeks per deploy working cross-functionally with engineering, UI/UX design and professional services in Agile Scrum sprints to build workflows in data pipelines, pensions, end-of-service, payslips, report integrations, writing Jira user stories, product roadmap, Figma mockups and A/B tests.
  • Achieved 70% automation of support requests (200+ tickets weekly) resulting in a 60% reduction in manual workload hours by building AngularJS dashboards interfacing with MySQL, Flask, and GraphQL APIs.

Technical Documentation Group Lead

Google • 03/2019 - 02/2020

  • Invited by Paige Bailey, Billy Lamberta, mentored machine learning devs with tutorials, pull requests review.
  • Responsible for moderation, maillist & events on TensorFlow Documentation Group in Russian-speaking countries.
  • Attracted 10+ developers who became regular contributors to docs in Portugal, Turkey, Germany, Russia, US.

Senior Product Manager

AGNA • 01/2019 - 02/2022

  • Y2Y revenue +80% increase by defining market strategy, planning & product launch roadmap with Lean (MVPs, feedback loops), wrote over 20+ detailed actionable PRDs for new features.
  • Launched 8 channels on Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, Ozon, Yandex and WB for best-performing products in 14 categories.
  • Established OKRs and KPIs with competitive analysis tools & strategies of e-commerce ad campaigns (Power BI).
  • Implemented methods for product portfolio management, supply chain planning, demand forecasting, expedited Excel to CRM transition.

Machine Learning Engineer

Graffiti AI • 08/2018 - 09/2019

  • Published Gen AI project to research applications of generative adversarial networks in artwork/creative.
  • Tailored deep learning GAN architecture in TensorFlow for generating novel art on image datasets on GCP.
  • Maintain 14 datasets of human-created art for training, 72 GB (Nvidia CUDA, Jekyll, Markdown, Pandas, Numpy).
  • Built 6 scripts toolset to auto render animated videos, gif animations and iterations.

Backend Software Engineer

AGNA • 03/2019 - 02/2020

  • Architected automotive search for best price/speed in 60+ car parts suppliers (Python, QT, REST API, JSON).
  • Implemented price matching algorithms, revenue boost 25% for competitive analysis.
  • Built Instagram and Facebook automated marketing bots with Selenium.
  • Slashed product listing time by 4x using meta/attributes generation and photo editing automation.

Product Manager

AGNA • 03/2014 - 02/2018

  • Led product team of 3 expanding on new marketplaces using data-driven approach, resulting in 5x revenue.
  • Planned and conducted thorough A/B testing to identify best practices before making product feature choices.
  • Automated data summarization for KPI and OKR tracking, slashed time-to-decision to a single day/meeting.

Technical Writer

Google • 10/2018 - 09/2020

  • Contributed to TF, Keras docs in Russian, English, coordinated translations in 4 new languages on GitHub, Jupyter.
  • Collaborated with TensorFlow repository maintainers and docs writers on new tutorials, proofread existing docs.
  • Style, tone rewrite, bug fixes, refactored code, and improved structure of tutorials and documentation.

Product Marketing Manager

LEGO • 03/2014 - 02/2016

  • Launched over 20 marketing campaigns within Waterfall commercialization process for new products in the EU region.
  • Achieved +18% positive feedback post-sales increase from existing and cold customers with omni-channel.
  • Tracked relevant KPIs metrics and analyzed market trends to develop new product marketing strategies for better launches.

Business Intelligence Developer

AGNA • 03/2012 - 02/2013

  • Analyzed clickstream data, proposed methods to improve UI/UX (Yandex, Google Analytics, XML).
  • Responsible for new markets research, supply chain optimization, competitive analysis and pricing (Tableau).

Data Analyst Intern

AGNA • 06/2012 - 09/2012

  • Improved online ad performance by 20% with social media marketing (SMM) and SEO best practices.

Software Engineer

SRP Team • 03/2004 - 02/2007

  • Core team member, contributed to major releases of SRP Mod (C++, Lua, XML).
  • Introduced new items, artifacts and weapons, programmed gameplay, AI and NPC behavior.
  • Graphics overhaul with my own photography for textures and Adobe Photoshop.

Frontend Software Engineer

MC Studio • 03/2004 - 02/2007

  • Started a web studio developing websites with Macromedia Flash, HTML, PHP, graphics, animation in school.
  • Developed 8 websites and 3 commercial projects, some still running.

Education