IT infrastructure engineer in Tbilisi, Georgia. Twenty years on the unglamorous side of the stack — hypervisors, storage, networks, backups, and the monitoring that tells you when they break. Government, university, and private sector, and lately a lot of streaming.
I work at the terminal, prefer open source, and self-host most of what I use. When something needs a front end I build that too — the sites below are mine, design included.
DevOps & Developer — Ordunet · 2019–present Georgian ISP. Among other things I run mirror.ordunet.ge, the public package mirror — Ubuntu archive, Ubuntu releases, and Termux — so users here pull packages from local infrastructure instead of over a transatlantic hop.
Senior DevOps / Systems Administrator — TVG · 2020–present Georgian IPTV operator delivering 220+ channels to 10,000+ subscribers across 19 partner ISPs. I run the streaming platform end to end: an edge server fleet distributed across Georgia, restreaming pipelines and ABR packaging, NVIDIA GPU transcoding, catch-up DVR, and the Android TV box backend — on top of a geo-distributed vSphere estate of 12+ ESXi hosts, 100+ VMs and 4 vCenters.
Independent cloud & DevOps consultant · 2019–present 30+ clients in e-commerce and SaaS, from one-off deployments to long-term maintenance and on-call. AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible.
Previously — Deputy head of IT for the Military Police at the Ministry of Defence, senior IT engineer at Ilia State University, IT group lead at the Penitentiary Department, and several years teaching Linux and information security at Ilia State University and IT Step Academy.
| Linux / UNIX | Ubuntu · Debian · RHEL / Rocky / Alma · Alpine · Arch · FreeBSD · OpenBSD |
| Virtualization | VMware vSphere — vCenter, vSAN, vMotion, DRS, HA · Proxmox VE · Hyper-V · KVM/QEMU · XCP-ng |
| Containers | Docker · Kubernetes / K3s · LXC · Dokploy · Coolify |
| Networking | MikroTik RouterOS · pfSense / OPNsense · Cisco · FortiGate · HAProxy · Nginx · Traefik · WireGuard · Cloudflare Tunnel |
| Storage | ZFS / TrueNAS · HPE SmartArray · IBM · Synology · QNAP · Fibre Channel · iSCSI · NFS |
| Backup & DR | Veeam · Acronis · Proxmox Backup Server · Restic · Borg · rsync · cross-site replication |
| Observability | Prometheus · Grafana · Loki · Zabbix · ELK · InfluxDB · SolarWinds · PRTG |
| Cloud & CI/CD | AWS · GCP · Cloudflare (WAF, Zero Trust, Workers, Pages, R2) · GitHub Actions · Ansible · Terraform |
| Streaming | Flussonic · OvenMediaEngine · SRS · MistServer · FFmpeg · HLS / DASH / SRT · NVIDIA GPU transcoding |
| Security | Nessus · Rapid7 · Lynis · OpenVAS · PKI and smart-card auth · LUKS2 (Tang / Clevis) |
| Programming | Bash · Python · PHP (Laravel) · Dart / Flutter |
- mirror.ordunet.ge — public package mirror for Georgia: the Ubuntu archive, Ubuntu releases, and Termux, kept in sync and served over Apache from Ordunet's network.
- clean-mac-ai — an honest Mac cleaner for Claude Code. Measures what is actually on disk, reclaims it with each toolchain's own garbage collector, and refuses the maintenance theater other cleaners sell.
| Site | What it is | My part |
|---|---|---|
| navigator.ge | Georgian tech-news publication, built on Next.js | Design, development, and writing |
| serveradmin.ge | My blog on Linux, virtualization, networking and security, in Georgian. Next.js + Payload | All of it |
| ordunet.ge | Corporate site for the ISP — fibre, Wi-Fi, IPTV, VPS/VDS | Design and development |
| noc.com.ge | Free network diagnostics: ping, traceroute, MTR, DNS, WHOIS, port checks, IP geolocation, blacklist lookups, subnet calculator, IPv4 and IPv6 | Design and architecture |
| netwizard.ge | Managed technology partner — remote NOC/SOC, monitoring and logging, network engineering, training | Design and architecture, and part of the team behind it |
| newtech.ge | Batumi retailer — authorised supply, on-site design and installation | Development and design |
Cisco CCNAv7 — Introduction to Networks · Switching, Routing & Wireless Essentials · Enterprise Networking, Security & Automation NDG Linux Essentials · Introduction to Linux II Fortinet Certified Fundamentals in Cybersecurity · NSE 1–2 Cisco Networking Academy Instructor
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Georgian (native) · Russian (C1) · English (B2)