Alex Plugaru
Cofounder & CTO at Gorgias
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Plugaru is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building customer-facing SaaS for ecommerce, best known as co-founder and CTO of Gorgias, a CRM used by thousands of merchants worldwide. Based in New York, he blends deep hands-on engineering—spanning Python, Django, mobile apps and deployment tooling—with product leadership that scaled support operations for high-growth retailers. After stepping into board and new-founder roles in 2026, he continues to translate operational pain points into developer-friendly platforms. His early career migrating large Zope/Plone systems and building deployment tools reveals a pragmatic approach to legacy modernization and automation. Comfortable across stacks and infrastructure, he pairs startup grit with an engineer’s attention to operational detail.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BAC Computer Science, BAC Computer Science at High School of Computer ScienceNone Computer Science, None Computer Science at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
English, Romanian, Ukrainian, French, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
html-editor10
flask-socketio10
gmail10
text-expander10
apm10
opera-extension10
text-editing10
editors10
contenteditable10
shortcuts10
png10
crash-reports10
python10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xarg/rabbitmq-statefulset
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
xarg/plugaru.org
Dec 2017 - Nov 2024
plugaru.org blog source
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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