Jun 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Tbilisi, Georgia · On-site

• Responsibilities:
• 1. Lead digital transformation, aligning technology strategy with business growth.
• 2. Drive innovation across software engineering, SAP systems, and IT infrastructure.
• 3. Oversee SAP ECC to S/4HANA Cloud migration and AWS cloud migration, enhancing scalability and reducing costs.
• 4. Manage 32 digital platforms, including eCommerce, mobile apps, ERP systems, and payment solutions.
• 5. Optimize CAPEX and OPEX costs through comprehensive audits, securing financial incentives from SAP and AWS.
• 6. Lead multidisciplinary teams:
• SAP Teams: C4C, Emarsys, SF, DWH, FI, MM, SD (Awarded by Official SAP for excellence).
• Software Engineering: Angular, Node.js, Kotlin, Swift, React, Vue.js, Laravel, .NET.
• IT Infrastructure: Sys and Net Admins managing two data centers.
• Support Teams: IT, SAP, and App Support providing 24/7 service.
• 7. Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture, ensuring teams meet KPIs.
• 8. Collaborate with executive stakeholders to align technology investments with long-term goals.
• Key Achievements:
• 1. Cost Optimization: Reduced operational expenses by 15% through in-house software development, enhancing long-term sustainability.
• 2. Digital Transformation: Led SAP S/4HANA Cloud migration for 3,000 employees, earning industry recognition from Official SAP.
• 3. Cloud Migration: Spearheaded AWS migration, securing cost-saving bonuses, reducing infrastructure costs, and improving system reliability.
• 4. Software Engineering: Optimized 32 digital platforms, boosting online sales, customer engagement, and business process efficiency.
• 5. Performance & Scalability: Improved service delivery speeds by 30% through workflow optimization and scalable software solutions.
• 6. Team Leadership: Mentored cross-functional teams, achieving 100% KPI scores and fostering innovation and collaboration.
• 7. Product Innovation: Built scalable software architectures aligned with Agile methodologies, accelerating development and supporting rapid growth.

Aug 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Miami, Florida, United States · Remote

• Responsibilities:
• 1. Team Leadership: Led and managed cross-functional teams across iOS, Android, QA, and MacOS, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment that delivered high-quality products consistently.
• 2. Strategic Planning: Developed and executed strategic roadmaps that aligned engineering efforts with overarching company goals, driving product innovation and operational excellence.
• 3. Project Management: Implemented Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, ensuring efficient project delivery, enhanced team productivity, and streamlined workflows.
• 4. Talent Acquisition: Conducted 150+ interviews for QA, iOS, and Android roles, successfully recruiting top talent and strengthening the engineering teams.
• 5. Process Implementation: Designed and established organizational processes and engineering structures that have been adopted company-wide, proving their efficiency and effectiveness over time.
• 6. Cross-Team Influence: Spearheaded strategies that were subsequently implemented across various teams, reflecting the scalability and robustness of the systems introduced.
• Key Achievements:
• 1. Enhanced Productivity: Implemented OKRs and KPIs, resulting in a 30% increase in team efficiency.
• 2. Process Optimization: Streamlined QA processes, reducing bug report resolution time by 30%.
• 3. Employee Engagement: Introduced initiatives that boosted team morale, leading to a 50% decrease in turnover.
• 4. Multiple times per quarter over the span of one year, the iOS application was selected as "App of the Day" in the most active regions.

Jul 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Miami, Florida, United States · Remote

• Responsibilities:
• 1. Team Development: Mentored a team of 12 iOS Engineers and QA professionals, promoting continuous learning and career advancement.
• 2. Infrastructure Enhancement: Led the re-engineering of application (iOS/Android) architecture, transitioning to a Modular Reactive framework. The iOS app was fully reengineered from UIKit to SwiftUI.
• 3. Agile Implementation: Integrated Agile practices, including daily stand-ups and retrospectives, sprint planning to improve workflow efficiency.
• 4. Quality Assurance Leadership: Managed the QA team, establishing new standards and protocols to elevate product quality.
• Key Achievements:
• 1. Career Development: Conducted knowledge-sharing sessions, resulting in a 25% improvement in skill proficiency among team members.
• 2. Technical Innovation: Pioneered the adoption of automation tools and established CI/CD pipelines and DORA metrics, accelerating release cycles by 30%.
• 3. Recognition: Led the highest-performing team within the company, achieving a 99% project success rate each quarter.

Mar 2021 – Jul 2021 · 4 mos · Miami, Florida, United States · Remote

• Responsibilities:
• 1. Architecture Modernization: Participated in the overhaul of application architecture, migrating to a Reactive MVI pattern from MVVM.
• 2. Codebase Revamp: Collaborated in the comprehensive redesign of existing applications to enhance performance and maintainability.
• 3. Performance Analysis: Identified and addressed bottlenecks in build processes, optimizing both local development and CI/CD pipelines.
• 4. Feature Development: Contributed to the development of new features for iPhone and iPad applications, enriching user experience.
• Key Achievements:
• 1. Efficiency Gains: Optimized build times, reducing them by 40%, which expedited development cycles.
• 2. Quality Improvement: Increased unit test coverage by 50%, leading to more robust and reliable codebases.

Dec 2018 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Tbilisi, Georgia · On-site

• Responsibilities:
• 1. Architectural Innovation: Designed and implemented a unified codebase supporting deployments across four countries, ensuring compliance with diverse regulatory requirements.
• 2. Version Control Optimization: Transitioned the development team from X Flow to a customized Git Flow, aligning with the company's Time to Market strategy and facilitating trunk-based development.
• 3. Team Leadership: Led a 20-member iOS Engineering Chapter, conducting regular feedback sessions and one-on-one meetings to foster professional growth and enhance team dynamics.
• 4. Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Established CI/CD pipelines from scratch for both Android and iOS teams, streamlining the deployment process including implementation of DORA metrics.
• 5. Analytics Integration: Implemented and managed analytics tools, including Mixpanel, Firebase Analytics, Facebook Analytics, and AppAnnie, to drive data-informed decision-making.
• Key Achievements:
• 1. Architectural Overhaul: Spearheaded the migration from MVC to MVVM architecture utilizing Reactive Programming paradigms, enhancing code maintainability and scalability by a minimum of 30%.
• 2. Process Enhancement: Optimized development workflows, resulting in a 20% reduction in feature rollout time.
• 3. Deployment Efficiency: Developed a squad-based deployment scheme, improving release coordination and minimizing downtime.
• 4. Performance Optimization: Enhanced application performance, enabling the integration of new features on a weekly basis without compromising stability.

Dec 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr · Tbilisi, Georgia · On-site

• Key Achievements:
• 1. Architectural Advancement: Played a pivotal role in developing a project architecture that maintained a single codebase adaptable to four different country-specific targets.
• 2. Process Improvement: Successfully migrated the team to a modified Git Flow system, resulting in a 15% increase in development efficiency.
• 3. Deployment Process Optimization: Implemented a comprehensive CI/CD system, reducing deployment times by 25% and enhancing overall team productivity.

Jun 2017 – Dec 2017 · 6 mos · Remote · Remote

• During my freelance career on Upwork, I earned over $100,000 with a 100% Success Score, delivering high-quality iOS development services to help clients achieve their business goals.
• Key Responsibilities and Achievements:
• 1. End-to-End Development: Designed and developed iOS applications from scratch, while also enhancing and debugging existing projects across various industries, including entertainment, gambling, and framework-based applications.
• 2. Scalable Codebase Management: Implemented and maintained scalable Git structures, ensuring seamless collaboration and version control for diverse teams.
• 3. Technology Migration: Rewrote multiple applications from Objective-C to Swift, improving performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• 4. Architecture Modernization: Migrated legacy codebases from MVC to Reactive MVVM, leveraging RxSwift for better state management and responsiveness.
• 5. Advanced Feature Implementation: Integrated complex functionalities such as face detection, object detection, PDF scanning, and high-performance scanning solutions.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017 · 11 mos · On-site

• Responsibilities and Achievements:
• 1. Advanced Framework Utilization: Worked extensively with CNContacts for contact management, Biometric Authentication, and Vision framework for face detection, combined with CIFilters and CoreML for advanced image processing tasks.
• 2. OpenCV Integration: Developed Objective-C to Swift bridges for OpenCV, enabling seamless access to image processing methods such as Gaussian Blur and edge detection.
• 3. Media Processing Expertise: Built a comprehensive music equalizer with features like audio merge, audio split, and a custom music player with tailored plugins.
• 4. Video Editing Solutions: Engineered video editing tools supporting video merge, split, and timeline manipulation, with optimized size compression using OpenCV and GPUImage.
• Custom Tool Development: Created a 3D image cropper, face animation tools, and sophisticated image scaling, decompression, and filtering processes with custom-built algorithms.
• 5. PDF Scanner Development: Designed and implemented a custom PDF scanning application with high accuracy and performance.

May 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos · On-site

• Responsibilities and Achievements:
• 1. Cross-Language Development: Developed and maintained iOS applications using Objective-C, Swift, C++, and Objective-C++, ensuring high performance and scalability.
• 2. Application Development: Delivered high-quality applications across multiple domains, including entertainment, productivity, and utilities, from conception to deployment.
• 3. Legacy Code Migration: Re-architected and migrated legacy Objective-C applications to Swift, improving maintainability and leveraging modern iOS frameworks.
• 4. Optimized Performance: Refined app performance by optimizing memory management, leveraging C++ for computational tasks, and implementing efficient data structures.
• 5. Collaborative Development: Worked closely with design, backend, and QA teams to ensure seamless integration and high-quality releases.
• 6. Innovative Solutions: Built custom components for user interfaces, animation, and multimedia processing, pushing the limits of iOS capabilities.

Aug 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Tbilisi, Georgia · On-site

• As an iOS Engineering Lecturer at UG Lemondo Trainings, a joint initiative between the University of Georgia and Lemondo, I delivered comprehensive mobile application development courses, mentoring individuals of all ages in iOS development using Swift and Objective-C.
• Key Responsibilities and Achievements:
• 1. Mentorship and Training: Provided hands-on training in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Swift, and Objective-C, helping students build real-world applications, including an Instagram replica.
• 2. Curriculum Development: Designed and delivered a structured curriculum covering the full iOS development lifecycle, from architecture and design patterns to deployment and optimization.
• 3. Hands-on Project Experience: Guided students through practical projects, enabling them to apply their skills to real-world app development challenges.
• 4. Certification Program: Successfully prepared students for assessments, with those achieving over 90% receiving official certifications from the University of Georgia and Lemondo.
• 5. Impact: Many of my students have since progressed to senior iOS engineering roles in leading companies, reflecting the effectiveness of the training program and mentorship provided.