Alexey Tikhonov
Chief Developer at n/a-freelance
Southern Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolAlexey Tikhonov is a Chief Developer and seasoned digital preservation specialist with over a decade designing and delivering museum-grade digitization, DAM and archival systems. He blends full‑stack web development (HTML/JS/PHP, WordPress, Angular) and interface design with hands‑on team leadership, having led large intranet and scientific database projects at ROSPHOTO and Colorhythm. A longtime freelance developer and former UI department head, he is comfortable shipping everything from small WordPress sites to enterprise DAM installations and has contributed front‑end fixes to the popular OpenSeadragon viewer to improve overlays and viewport behavior. In parallel he maintains a professional editorial and portrait photography practice, giving him rare expertise at the intersection of imaging, metadata and UX. Based in Sri Lanka, he combines engineering training with a philosophy background, an uncommon mix that informs pragmatic, user‑focused archival solutions.
10 years of coding experience
bachelor, Philosophy, bachelor, Philosophy at Vyshaya Religiozno-Philosofskaya Shkolaengineer, engineer at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Электротехнический Университет «ЛЭТИ»
English, Russian
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Github Skills (6)
image-viewer10
javascript10
viewer10
image9
high-resolution9
git4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openseadragon/openseadragon
Feb 2016 - Jul 2022
An open-source, web-based viewer for zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexey contributed to the OpenSeadragon project by implementing and refining features related to overlays and viewport functionality. This involved adding methods to retrieve overlays by ID and get their bounds. They also made minor adjustments to the code style and fixed a bug related to the drawing of tiles with zero opacity. These contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the viewer's core capabilities and improving its overall performance and correctness.
imageviewerimagezoomable-imagesopenseadragonimage-viewer
altert/OpenseadragonFabricjsOverlay
Feb 2016 - Aug 2021
fabricjs canvas overlay for openseadragon
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 58 commits in 5 years 7 months
openseadragoncanvasjavascriptoverlayfabricjs
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