Oleksandr Kravchuk

Magento Department Manager at vConnect
Technical

Oleksandr Kravchuk’s journey in eCommerce started 8 years ago with his acquaintance with Magento 1. During these years he has worked on many Magento 2 clients in markets of Europe, Scandinavia, and the Middle East and with projects of different sizes: from dozen orders per day to more than 50,000 simultaneous customers on a webshop. Last 2 years he has been working as Magento Department Manager at vConnect.dk, building and optimizing development processes to provide an even more fascinating experience for their beloved clients.

Way of becoming an Adobe Commerce Certified Expert in different categories (Developer, Cloud Developer, Business Practitioner), altogether with Adobe Commerce Certified Master opened him a much better overview of not only how to solve business issues from the technical side but also understanding what business drivers are behind them. In 2022 he was recognized as Adobe Subject Matter Expert as a result of participation in a group for creating questions for the Adobe Commerce Master – Adobe Commerce Architect exam.

His passion for open-source development led him to become a contributor to Magento 2 Platform and Magento Community Maintainer. One of the main achievements was the role of one of the core contributors to the In-Store Pickup feature of Magento 2 based on the Multi-Source Inventory solution (the Inventory). Due to his impact and dedication, he was recognized as one of the top 50 Magento contributors in 2019 and named Magento Master Maker 2020.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine in 2022, he is temporarily living in Bulgaria, East-Europe. Dreaming to return one day to the peaceful Ukrainian sky, meeting his relatives, and friends, and finally pet his dog whom he has not seen for a year already.

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