Building production software since 2009
Lead full-stack engineer working across financial platforms, logistics, public-sector systems, mobile products, cloud infrastructure, and IoT. I take products from early requirements and architecture through implementation, deployment, and long-term maintenance, moving comfortably between product decisions and hands-on engineering.
How I work
The strongest work connects product context, system design, and implementation rather than treating them as separate jobs.
Career history
Roles and selected client engagements are grouped under the organizations through which the work was delivered.
2025 - Present
Tbilisi, Georgia / Remote
Freelance
Full-Stack Consultant
Partner with founders and product teams on web, mobile, backend, automation, and cloud engagements, from technical discovery through implementation and launch.
2024 - 2025
Remote for London, UK
Direct international contractor
Lead Engineer
Inherited a UK-only legacy Ruby lending system and rebuilt its complete feature set in a new platform from the ground up, then expanded it for US banking clients and deployments across both markets.
2020 - 2022
Pennsylvania, USA / Remote
Founder
Founding Engineer
Co-founded and built a web and mobile freight-operations platform for dispatchers and drivers; continued contributing after the formal role ended in 2022.
2009 - 2022
Tbilisi, Georgia
Full-time employment
Lead Engineer
Over a 13-year tenure, delivered and led web, mobile, backend, cloud, and IoT projects for humanitarian, financial, telecom, and other clients.
Selected client engagements through PickTek
2012 - 2018
Lead Engineer via PickTek
Led delivery and long-term maintenance for wfp.org and internal analytics tools, covering application changes, releases, supporting infrastructure, and production support in a globally distributed organization.
2017 - 2019
Lead Engineer via PickTek
Led the web and mobile pension platform and its IDBlock37 React Native identity-verification app, covering user workflows, analytics, document, face, and voice capture, native SDK integration, and Docker Swarm deployment.
2009 - 2010
Junior Full-Stack Engineer via PickTek
Built a customer-facing mobile application that brought multiple banking services into one product, contributing across the mobile experience and supporting full-stack work.
2016 - 2018
Tbilisi, Georgia
Founder / concurrent venture
Founding Engineer
Co-founded and built a smart-home platform across connected devices, backend services, user applications, e-commerce, and production operations; continued contributing after 2018.
Freelance
A selection of backend, web, and mobile contracts completed through Upwork and direct client relationships.
NewNew.co
Upwork introduction, then direct freelance contract
Worked on backend platform development for a decision-making marketplace, contributing across the product rather than to one isolated service.
Mobile wallet
Upwork contract
Joined an existing public-beta React Native wallet to investigate performance problems in an unfamiliar production codebase.
Mobile wallet
Follow-on Upwork contract
Continued with the client after the initial performance engagement, moving into broader feature development and maintenance.
Pre-launch mobile product
Upwork contract
Joined a cross-functional team during a launch-sensitive stage to resolve mobile issues and keep product delivery moving.
Operations platform
Upwork contract
Worked across application and infrastructure concerns on a JavaScript platform with operational and ERP-connected workflows.
Product platform
Upwork contract
Worked with a product team in a Solutions Architect capacity on backend, infrastructure, and integration planning.
PR Motors
Freelance engagement
Worked extensively across a vehicle and parts commerce platform, contributing to customer-facing workflows, internal operations, data synchronization, and supporting mobile utilities.
Nomad
Freelance engagement
Contributed across the web application, React Native mobile product, and edge services for a location- and travel-oriented platform.
Orchestrator
Freelance engagement
Contributed across an AI-assisted project workspace built with TypeScript, React, Convex, and Cloudflare deployment infrastructure.
Additional client engineering
A broader view of the mobile, web, and platform work behind the long PickTek tenure, kept on the website so the primary resume remains concise.
Digital publishing
Contributed extensively to a native iPhone and iPad reader and storefront for Georgian books, magazines, and newspapers, covering EPUB and PDF reading, Georgian typography, search, bookmarks, highlights, display controls, library performance, and long-running iOS compatibility work.
Telecom self-service
Worked across iOS, Android, and supporting API services for a mobile account-management product, including package purchases, balance and refill workflows, widgets, deep links, device registration, push notifications, and platform-specific release work.
Location-aware driver safety
Built features for a native iOS radar-warning application, including server communication, location-aware alerts, audio behavior, notification flows, stability work, and platform upgrades.
Geospatial web platform
Delivered an authenticated full-stack geospatial application across its web client and backend, including API behavior, user sessions, password handling, error recovery, dependency maintenance, and Dockerized deployment.
Products I designed and built across education, EV charging, local-first software, developer tools, and media workflows.
Education platform
Designed and built an iOS and web experience that guides children through a deliberately sequenced film journey. Each title includes reflection prompts, and a 50-word response unlocks the next film, turning passive watching into a habit of attention, writing, and film literacy.
Open project
EV charging platform
Built a native iOS and CarPlay charging platform that brings Georgia's fragmented charging networks into one product. Drivers can find and filter stations, compare ports and tariffs, plan routes, reserve supported ports, connect provider accounts, and manage charging sessions.
Open project
Local-first productivity
Building a local-first iOS and web system that turns people, objects, documents, subscriptions, chores, and projects into visual cards that resurface when useful. Cards support structured fields, tags, photos, files, schedules, notifications, snooze, and history; optional cloud sync and shared workspaces extend it across devices and teams.
Open project
iOS server administration
Built and shipped an iPhone and iPad SSH file manager for practical server maintenance away from a terminal. Its dual-pane browser supports password and key authentication, server-side file operations, viewing and statistics, remote text and JSON editing, hidden files, path history, and app-lock protection.
Open project
Media workflow
Built and shipped an iPhone and iPad utility that turns long videos into share-ready clips while preserving original quality through passthrough export when possible. It supports Photo Library and share-sheet input, custom clip lengths, progress and cancellation, dedicated-album output, local job history, and background processing on supported iOS versions.
Open project
More engineering work
Additional systems, research projects, and reusable open-source tools spanning embedded hardware, infrastructure, mobile delivery, data collection, and real-time communication.
Embedded control platform
Built a generic controller platform for the nRF7002-DK, combining configurable actions and schedules, an authenticated embedded web panel, signed over-the-air update workflows, rollback visibility, and real-device validation tooling.
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Vehicle auction intelligence
Built a homelab platform for tracking vehicles across Copart and IAAI, with configurable search targets, collector runtimes, lot and image ingestion, review workflows, sold-price processing, and live browser updates backed by Cloudflare Durable Objects.
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Computational topology
Developed a personal C research toolkit for computing homology from simplicial and more general polytopal structures, exploring parallel execution, depth-first calculation strategies, memory behavior, benchmarking, and supporting poset and GAP tooling.
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Self-hosted file exchange
Built a Bun-based homelab service for issuing controlled upload and download links, with expiration and usage limits, revocation, folder uploads, ZIP downloads, authenticated administration, and signed GitHub webhook updates.
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Open-source mobile infrastructure
Created a reusable React Native library for presigned S3 uploads and downloads, including folders, background transfers, progress observation, persistence, retries, callbacks, local file handling, and example mobile and server implementations.
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Open-source delivery tooling
Built and maintained GitHub Actions for publishing Android App Bundles to Google Play and synchronizing version codes through the Google Play Developer API, including release tracks, localized notes, mapping files, and service-account authentication.
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Open-source database tooling
Implemented a Prisma driver adapter that connects Prisma Client to PostgreSQL through Bun's native SQL client, allowing Bun applications to use Prisma without a Node-specific database driver.
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Private messaging system
Built a mobile chat client and supporting Node.js service around end-to-end encrypted conversations, asynchronous queueing, polling delivery, and an optional self-verification flow.
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Cross-platform real-time audio
Created an early cross-platform voice-chat system with native macOS and Windows clients plus a server implementation, covering audio devices, participant state, muting, reconnection, and concurrent real-time communication.
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Connected-home systems
Built and operated a personal home-automation stack spanning ESPHome and OpenTherm heating control, room sensors and alerts, dashboards, safe state restoration, Homebridge integration, and timed USB-relay access control.
Marketplace operations
Built a full-stack portal for creating and managing eBay listings, with OAuth, product and compatibility data, category workflows, image upload and transformation, draft publishing, account sessions, and deployment on Cloudflare.
Telemetry and operations
Built a multi-repository UPS monitoring system with telemetry ingestion, authenticated APIs, historical logs, voltage and power graphs, crash and reboot reporting, alerts, Cloudflare-backed storage, and a React Native companion application.
Audio collaboration
Built a web prototype for organizing and sharing digital-audio project files, with authenticated workspaces, folder navigation, drag-and-drop uploads, S3-backed storage, waveform playback and seeking, file management, and complete folder downloads.
Child-care logging
Built a React Native application for recording and reviewing a child's daily care events, with structured feeding options, exact and relative timestamps, fast chronological navigation, and local Realm-backed data storage.
Reference platform architecture
Created a multi-repository reference platform with authentication, user, company, file, email, and database services; customer and administration applications; Kong routing; PostgreSQL migrations; S3-compatible storage; and Docker Compose and Swarm deployment examples.
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Infrastructure utilities
Maintained a practical collection of container images and scripts for scheduled jobs, PostgreSQL and MySQL backup and recovery through S3, Drupal and Jekyll hosting, TFTP service, and reproducible ESP8266 SDK and RTOS build environments.
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Technical range
A working toolkit accumulated across product generations, with fast adoption when a problem calls for something new.
Education
2011 - 2016
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Tbilisi, Georgia
Worked as a paid software engineer during the final two years of the program.
Contact
Based in Tbilisi and available for international remote, B2B, and direct contractor work.