Alex Dergachev
Co-Founder And Technical Lead at EvolveDigital + EvolveDrupal Summits
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Dergachev is a co-founder and technical lead with 14+ years building enterprise Drupal solutions and leading engineering teams from Montreal to New York. A McGill graduate in Math, Economics, and Computer Science, he blends rigorous technical architecture and development best practices with hands-on coding—especially in PHP, JavaScript, and search technologies like Solr. At Evolving Web he has delivered complex implementations for clients such as Travelocity, A&E, McGill University, and the Government of Canada while cultivating a disciplined delivery culture. He also founded EvolveDigital/EvolveDrupal summits to advance community knowledge and stays active in the Drupal ecosystem as a speaker and contributor. Beyond Drupal, his open-source work includes a notable refactor of the screengif tool, improving its performance and CLI ergonomics, reflecting a pragmatic focus on tooling and developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Stuyvesant High SchoolB.A. Math Computer Science Economics, B.A. Math Computer Science Economics at McGill University
French, Russian
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Github Skills (23)
parser10
image-processing10
rmagick10
ffmpeg10
ruby10
parse10
option-parser10
opt10
par10
command-line-interface9
command-line9
cli9
git8
bash7
vim6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dergachev/screengif
Feb 2013 - Jul 2020
Create animated gif screencasts.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 15 PRs, 20 pushes in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex significantly refactored and enhanced the `screengif` project, moving from a shell script wrapper to a Ruby-based implementation. They introduced options parsing, progress bar integration, and optimized the image processing pipeline. Further contributions included the refactoring of the code to better manage dependencies, and the addition of more options to the command line interface. The user also improved the build process and optimized the image processing pipeline for performance and size.
animatedgifgiphyanimated-gifscreencasts
dergachev/chef_root_ssh_agent
Oct 2012 - May 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 7 months
cookbookssh-agentagentssh-agent-forwardingssh
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