Summary
Sergey Demidenko is a senior architect specializing in enterprise digital experience platforms with over a decade building and leading Drupal/Acquia web solutions for Fortune 100 clients like Caterpillar, Nestlé, Humana and CVS. He blends hands-on Drupal/PHP development, cloud and CDN infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Acquia, Pantheon, Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly) and API/portal work (Apigee) with executive-facing architecture and proposal leadership. As a people manager and technical lead at Cognizant, he drives agile teams, hiring, promotions and career development while owning strategic architectural decisions and RFP responses. He’s experimented with GenAI tooling (VS Code + GitHub Copilot, Windsurf IDE) and RAG search patterns with Solr, bringing pragmatic R&D into production roadmaps. Known for large-scale migrations, community portals and performance tuning, he pairs deep CMS expertise with a persistent focus on team efficiency and measurable delivery. Based in Watertown, MA, he combines enterprise-scale experience with a history of building community-driven platforms dating back to early Drupal projects.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Information Systems, Business, Telecommunication, B.S., Information Systems, Business, Telecommunication at Clarkson University
English, Russian