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Luka Dodelia

12+ years of professional software engineering

Lead Full-Stack Engineer building production systems with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and React Native.

Hands-on Lead Full-Stack Engineer with 12+ years of professional experience in TypeScript, Node.js, React, React Native, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker. I build FinTech, B2B SaaS, logistics, public-sector, mobile, cloud, and connected products, and I own work from system design through production support.

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Based in
Tbilisi, Georgia
Available for
Open to Senior, Staff, or Lead Full-Stack Engineer roles and hands-on Technical Lead roles. Fluent in English and seeking English-language roles only. Available to start immediately with no notice-period restriction. Available for international remote employment where eligible, B2B, and direct contracts.
Primary stack
TypeScript / Node.js / React / React Native / PostgreSQL / AWS

How I work

Hands-on technical leadership.

I connect product context, system design, and implementation, and I stay close to the code.

Hands-on technical leadership
Lead architecture, code review, mentoring, and delivery while continuing to write production code.
Production ownership
Take products from requirements and system design through implementation, deployment, and long-term support.
Cross-platform systems
Build web, mobile, backend, cloud, data, and connected-device software with one view of the complete product.

Career history

Production ownership across products and industries.

Roles and selected client engagements are grouped under the organizations through which the work was delivered.

2025 - Present

Tbilisi, Georgia / Remote

Freelance and direct contracts

Independent

Independent Full-Stack Engineer

Provide hands-on product engineering and technical leadership for founders and product teams across web, mobile, backend, cloud, automation, and AI-assisted systems.

  • Lead technical discovery, architecture, implementation, release work, and production follow-up.
  • Enter active TypeScript, React, React Native, Node.js, and cloud codebases, identify risks, and ship focused improvements without unnecessary rewrites.

2024 - 2025

Remote for London, UK

Direct international contractor

Connected Financial Solutions UK Limited

Lead Engineer

Led the rebuild of a UK lending platform from a legacy Ruby system, then expanded the new platform for US banking clients and production deployments in both markets.

  • Started as the sole engineer and owned architecture, application code, data, infrastructure, releases, and production operations.
  • Rebuilt the required UK lending workflows and operational rules in a new platform while protecting business continuity.
  • Expanded the product for US banking clients with land, equipment, and term-loan workflows and separate UK and US deployments.
  • Reimplemented a Python AI workflow as a Node.js service that called Anthropic directly over HTTP.

2020 - 2022

Pennsylvania, USA / Remote

Founder

LumaLogistics

Founding Engineer

Co-founded and built a web and mobile freight-operations platform for dispatchers and drivers.

  • Designed dispatcher workflows for loads, drivers, trucks, maps, payments, documents, and operational status tracking.
  • Built React Native field workflows for pickup and delivery, cargo inspections, damage capture, signatures, bills of lading, and document uploads.
  • Led product and technical decisions across application architecture, APIs, data, infrastructure, and releases.

2009 - 2022

Tbilisi, Georgia

Full-time employment

PickTek

Lead Engineer

During a 13-year tenure, delivered and led production web, mobile, backend, cloud, data, and IoT systems for humanitarian, financial, telecom, and other clients.

  • Led client products from requirements and architecture through implementation, release, and long-term production support.
  • Mentored engineers through system design and code review while modernizing long-lived platforms.
  • Worked across application, API, data, infrastructure, and device-facing systems as each product required.

Selected client engagements through PickTek

  1. World Food Programme

    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.

  2. NovuGens Pension Management

    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.

  3. Local Bank

    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

AlienGreen

Founding Engineer

Co-founded and built a smart-home platform across connected devices, backend services, web and mobile applications, e-commerce, and production operations.

  • Designed a custom UDP device protocol and backend for device sessions, real-time state, schedules, diagnostics, and remote control.
  • Built a Dockerized service platform behind an API gateway for device management, reporting, real-time updates, commerce, and administration.
  • Implemented remote firmware delivery for deployed devices, including version tracking and controlled update delivery.
  • Delivered web and mobile applications plus Alexa, Google Assistant, and IFTTT integrations, taking the product from prototypes to production deployments.

Freelance

Selected contract work.

A selection of backend, web, and mobile work delivered through Upwork and direct client relationships.

NewNew.co

Senior Backend Engineer

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.

  • Translated product requirements into APIs, data-model changes, and service logic.
  • Worked on infrastructure and third-party integrations alongside feature delivery.
  • Backend architecture
  • APIs
  • Data
  • Infrastructure
  • Integrations

Mobile wallet

React Native performance work

Upwork contract

Joined an existing public-beta React Native wallet to investigate performance problems in an unfamiliar production codebase.

  • Diagnosed bottlenecks and shipped focused fixes without interrupting ongoing product work.
  • Reviewed the application's structure and suggested practical improvements for continued development.
  • React Native
  • Performance
  • Mobile

Mobile wallet

React Native product development

Follow-on Upwork contract

Continued with the client after the initial performance engagement, moving into broader feature development and maintenance.

  • Delivered product features and fixes across the application's ongoing release cycle.
  • Combined hands-on implementation with product and technical feedback as the wallet evolved.
  • React Native
  • Product development
  • Maintenance

Pre-launch mobile product

React Native product delivery

Upwork contract

Joined a cross-functional team during a launch-sensitive stage to resolve mobile issues and keep product delivery moving.

  • Fixed React Native problems spanning application behavior, GraphQL integration, and native Xcode workflows.
  • Worked within the existing team and codebase to deliver updates ahead of launch.
  • React Native
  • GraphQL
  • Xcode
  • Release delivery

Operations platform

Full-stack development and cloud migration

Upwork contract

Worked across application and infrastructure concerns on a JavaScript platform with operational and ERP-connected workflows.

  • Helped move services to managed cloud infrastructure and improve registration and account recovery.
  • Built location-aware shift workflows and an ERP-connected order recommendation feature.
  • JavaScript
  • Cloud services
  • ERP
  • Application workflows

Product platform

Solutions Architect

Upwork contract

Worked with a product team in a Solutions Architect capacity on backend, infrastructure, and integration planning.

  • Reviewed requirements and helped shape practical technical options for implementation.
  • Solution architecture
  • System design
  • Backend
  • Infrastructure
  • Integrations

PR Motors

Full-stack product engineering

Freelance engagement

Worked extensively across a vehicle and parts commerce platform, contributing to customer-facing workflows, internal operations, data synchronization, and supporting mobile utilities.

  • Built and refined catalog search, account and authentication flows, per-user carts, imagery, statistics, and revenue-facing functionality.
  • Handled marketplace synchronization, server-rendering and hydration issues, operational tooling, and Android and iOS upload workflows.
  • TypeScript
  • Commerce
  • Data synchronization
  • Mobile tooling
  • Full stack

Nomad

Cross-platform product engineering

Freelance engagement

Contributed across the web application, React Native mobile product, and edge services for a location- and travel-oriented platform.

  • Delivered map and heatmap experiences, travel-path workflows, onboarding, responsive interaction improvements, and extensive mobile platform fixes.
  • Worked on subscription and payment flows, backend functions, security tightening, application upgrades, and coordinated web/mobile behavior.
  • Vue
  • React Native
  • Maps
  • Edge functions
  • Payments

Orchestrator

Full-stack product engineering

Freelance engagement

Contributed across an AI-assisted project workspace built with TypeScript, React, Convex, and Cloudflare deployment infrastructure.

  • Implemented project creation and deletion flows, model selection, tool calling, retry behavior, structured output parsing, and prompt-handling safeguards.
  • Improved markdown rendering, project notes, loading states, mobile behavior, dependency maintenance, and production deployment configuration.
  • TypeScript
  • AI workflows
  • React
  • Convex
  • Cloudflare

Additional client engineering

More products delivered through PickTek.

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

Iota Reader for Lit.ge

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.

  • iOS
  • Objective-C
  • EPUB and PDF
  • Performance

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Telecom self-service

MyMagti

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.

  • iOS
  • Android
  • Node.js
  • Push notifications

Location-aware driver safety

DriverAssist

Built features for a native iOS radar-warning application, including server communication, location-aware alerts, audio behavior, notification flows, stability work, and platform upgrades.

  • iOS
  • Objective-C and C++
  • Location
  • Real-time alerts

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Geospatial web platform

LinGEO

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.

  • JavaScript
  • Geospatial
  • Authentication
  • Docker

View repository

Selected products.

Products I designed and built across education, EV charging, local-first software, developer tools, and media workflows.

More engineering work

Additional systems, research projects, and reusable open-source tools spanning embedded hardware, infrastructure, mobile delivery, data collection, and real-time communication.

Core skills

Primary stack first. Broad experience behind it.

The main tools I use for current full-stack work, followed by the wider experience that supports architecture and leadership.

Primary full-stack
TypeScript / JavaScript / Node.js / React / React Native / PostgreSQL / REST APIs / GraphQL
Architecture
System design / Software architecture / Microservices / Distributed systems / Serverless / WebSockets
Cloud and delivery
AWS / Docker / Kubernetes / Cloudflare / GCP / Azure / CI/CD
Data and services
MySQL / MongoDB / Redis / Bun / Hono / Express / AI integrations / IoT protocols
Additional engineering
Python / Swift / Java / C/C++ / PHP / Drupal / Embedded systems
Leadership
Technical strategy / Product discovery / Mentorship / Code review / Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Formal foundation, applied early.

Bachelor of Computer Science

2011 - 2016

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Tbilisi, Georgia

Completed the degree while working in software engineering.

Contact

Looking for a hands-on engineer who can lead?

Based in Tbilisi. Open to international remote employment where eligible, plus B2B and direct contract work.

Schedule a call lukadodelia@gmail.com GitHub LinkedIn