Oleg Stepura

Senior fullstack with 21+ years of
architecture, delivery

Manifesto

Architectural pragmatism

I've been shipping software professionally since 2005, from the era of IE5 quirks to orchestrating modern Kubernetes clusters. My range runs across the stack - deep backend architecture in one place, a pixel-perfect frontend flow in the next.

True seniority, to me, isn't knowing the newest framework. It's building systems that don't wake you up at 3 a.m.

A big part of that seniority is technical intuition—the ability to distinguish fundamental paradigm shifts from passing hype.

21 yrs

in the craft

63+

products shipped

114+

technologies used

human, many hats

Current stack

Tools I keep reaching for

Full stack

Runtime

TypeScript
Frontend

Nuxt
Frontend

Vue
Styles

Tailwind CSS
Backend

Magento
API

GraphQL
Infra

Ansible
Infra

GitHub Actions
Infra

Google Cloud
Infra

Kubernetes
Backend

Symfony
Runtime

PHP

Journal

Recent writing

All articles

adr May 12, 2026

Migrating the Bontique Platform to Magento Headless

Why we chose Magento's GraphQL API and how we rebuilt the Vue/Nuxt frontend for a new reality.

ai Apr 20, 2026

Accessing Obsidian Notes with Claude

Connecting Claude Desktop directly to your Obsidian vault via the MCP Tools plugin - let the AI read, search, and generate local notes natively.

devops Mar 8, 2026

Containerized Scheduling: Why I Ditched Ofelia for Supercronic

Trying to use Ofelia as a Docker-native scheduler and switching to building a "dual-mode" container powered by Supercronic.

Two decades in the loop

Where I've been, compressed.

Visit the museum

2021–now

Tech Lead

Introduced microservices for check-printing, and led the redesign of the main platform - moving from a monolith to a split stack with an in-house design system. Migrated system to headless magento.

8 projects

2021–now

Full-Stack / Frontend Guild Lead

Frontend Guild lead and fullstack developer on TML. Kept the Frontend Guild the most active group inside the company, and open-sourced a PDF printer microservice.

11 projects

2021

Frontend Web Developer

Three-month stint shipping the initial chat for evenito's Virtual Attendee Platform, maintenance and bug-fixing the platform.

1 project

2018–2020

Full-stack / Frontend tech lead

Frontend tech lead on TripBuilder, the online itinerary builder. Built TripBooster (offline-first mobile web app) from scratch, established serverless-FE local dev, applied code-quality conventions across an Ember codebase, and ran a deep framework analysis to plot the post-Ember path.

3 projects

2007–2018

Full-stack web developer

Eleven years building the public face of a portfolio of casual MMOGs - game-management dashboards, social network integrations, mobile push infrastructure, and the websites and lobbies behind every game. Stack migrated over the decade: from PHP to Scala on the backend, from jQuery to React on the frontend.

26 projects

2004–now

Full-stack web developer

Freelance

Bespoke CMS, websites, branding, and small portals for clients across Kaliningrad and Europe - overlapping the Intenium years and continuing in bursts since.

23 projects

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If you have an interesting problem that would benefit from slow thinking and fast shipping — I'd like to hear about it.