Alex Cotiugă
Founder at Agnease
Iași, Iași, Romania
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Top SchoolAlex Cotiugă is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in XWiki platform development, consultancy, and long‑term maintenance. Having spent over seven years contributing directly to XWiki’s core as a back‑end developer, he combines deep product expertise with pragmatic engineering to stabilize, extend, and migrate knowledge platforms. He founded Agnease to help organizations optimize collaboration systems, reduce operational friction, and accelerate delivery through targeted custom development and upgrades. Alex’s open‑source contributions include bug fixes, API and ratings improvements, and refactorings to boost performance and maintainability in the widely used xwiki-platform. Based in Iași, Romania, he pairs academic training (BSc/MSc in Computer Science) with hands‑on consulting, making him as comfortable advising on architecture as implementing the underlying code. An understated strength is his focus on documentation and clear error messaging, reflecting a user‑centric approach to platform reliability.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași"Gr. Moisil" Computer Science High-school
English, French, Romanian
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Github Skills (5)
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
documentation9
refactoring8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xwiki/xwiki-platform
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
The XWiki platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 229 commits, 143 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the XWiki platform by fixing bugs and adding minor features. They addressed documentation issues, corrected error messages, and enhanced the functionality of user registration. The user's commits also involved code refactoring to improve performance and maintainability. Their contributions touch upon the core API, ratings, and refactoring modules of the platform.
xwiki
xwiki-contrib/macro-map
May 2018 - Jan 2021
Map Macro for XWiki, using Google Maps
Contributions:26 commits, 8 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 8 months
google-mapgoogle-mapsxwiki
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