Tbilisi, Georgia

Avtandil Kikabidze

Software architect, writing code since 2007 (19 years).

akalongman@gmail.com · longman.me · github.com/akalongman · www.linkedin.com/in/akalongman/

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Experience

• TSMU Chief Software Engineer, Tbilisi State Medical University Oct 2024 to present · 2y 2m Tbilisi

  Lead the architecture and the engineering team behind the university's learning platform, which supports 10,000 concurrent users.

  • Set the architecture and technology choices for the university's internal systems.
  • Introduced code review standards and AI-assisted review in the delivery pipeline.
• </> Consulting architect, Independent practice Jan 2022 to present · 4y 11m Tbilisi and remote

  Architecture and infrastructure for Inex Group (a holding that includes Georgia's largest carrier and shipping company), PowerPay (an open energy market platform) and Caucasus International University.

  • Caucasus International University: built the learning management system and the tuition billing system.
  • Inex Group: backend services and infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible.
  • PowerPay: architecture guidance for the engineering team.
  • Retrieval-augmented, multi-agent assistants over company knowledge bases.
• Senior Software Engineer (part time), SOCAR Georgia Petroleum Feb 2019 to present · 7y 10m Tbilisi

  Backend of the online cabinet for 50,000 business and retail customers.

  • Engineering on the company's customer loyalty platform.
  • Integrations with external financial systems.
  • Automated test suites around the legacy applications.
• ISU Chief Software Engineer, Ilia State University Sep 2018 to Sep 2024 · 6y 1m Tbilisi

  Built and ran Argus, the university's learning management system for 15,000 students and staff.

  • Responsible for the architecture of the university's resource planning (ERP) and billing systems as well.
  • Zero-downtime deployments across a cluster of more than 20 servers.
  • Monitoring and alerting with Grafana, InfluxDB, Loki and Telegraf, routed to Slack and WhatsApp.
• iM Senior Software Engineer, iMovies Sep 2017 to Aug 2018 · 1y Tbilisi

  Backend of Georgia's largest movie portal, up to 50,000 concurrent streams.

  • Search on Elasticsearch with custom relevance tuning.
  • Load testing with JMeter and database refactoring ahead of traffic peaks.
• Software Engineer, Prezly Sep 2016 to Aug 2017 · 1y Leuven, Belgium

  Features and test coverage for a PR and newsroom platform used by international brands.

• ITDC Senior Software Developer, ITDC Jan 2012 to Aug 2016 · 4y 8m Tbilisi

  Content management systems and native Android applications for client projects.

  • Python tooling for the team's development workflow.
• WS Senior Web Developer, WebSolutions Jul 2009 to Dec 2011 · 2y 6m Tbilisi

  Web applications and custom CMS builds; introduced version control to the team.

• ~/ Independent developer, Own projects Jan 2007 to Jun 2009 · 2y 6m Tbilisi

  Started writing code on my own projects, before my first employed role at WebSolutions.

Standing

• Co-author of the Georgian vocational education standard for Android development
• Web design technical expert, WorldSkills Georgia
• Google Maps Local Guide, Level 8 as of 27 September 2026
• Talk: Security of enterprise web applications, PHP International Conference, Tbilisi

Education

• Bachelor's degree, Engineering Sciences, Technical University of Georgia
• Certificate in Web Programming, Ilia State University

Languages

• Georgian: Native
• Russian: Fluent (C1)
• English: Professional working proficiency (B2)