Alex Plugaru
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlex 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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
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flask-socketio10
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text-expander10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xarg/rabbitmq-statefulset
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
An example of RabbitMQ Kubernetes using StatefulSet
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
kubernetesrabbitmqstatefulset
xarg/kuku
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Kubernetes templating tool
Contributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 21 pushes in 11 months
kubernetestemplatingpythonpython3cli
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