Tornike Skhulukhia

Backend Engineer

Tbilisi, Georgia6 yrs 3 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in backend development with Python.
Proven experience in fintech and data-intensive platforms.
Skilled in LLM-based automation and big data pipelines.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Fintech and SaaS.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (ai)Software Architectural DesignFullstack Development

Other Skills

KubernetesAirflowApache SparkFastAPIsmolagentsAgentic AI DevelopmentLangGraphLangChainPrompt EngineeringSQLAlchemyPostgreSQLRedisPythonDjangoBlockchain

About

Backend-focused software engineer with professional experience since 2018. Tornike has worked across fintech, data-intensive platforms, and backend-heavy full-stack systems, primarily using Python. His recent work includes distributed backend development, big data pipelines, and LLM-based automation using tools such as FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Airflow, Spark, LangChain, and LangGraph. He also has prior experience with financial systems, web scraping, and process automation. Main interests: backend engineering, scalable systems, and data-driven applications. Language of choice: Python.

Experience

Thetaray

Backend Big Data Developer

Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Remote

. Contributing to legacy and non-legacy initiatives for projects used across the world by large international banks and other financial institutions
. Working on creation of automatic workflows and LLM Agents using Agentic frameworks like Langchain, LangGraph and Smolagents, including technical development and maintenance + prompt engineering
. Building, and maintaining distributed backend systems leveraging tools like FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Airflow
. Collaborating on cloud-native infrastructure and data-intensive pipelines, adopting tools such as Kubernetes and PySpark for orchestration and big data processing
. Actively participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and cross-team collaboration within a globally distributed engineering team

KubernetesAirflowApache SparkFastAPIArtificial Intelligence (AI)smolagents+5

Bitxchange llc

Senior Backend Engineer

Sep 2024 – Aug 2025 · 11 mos · Tbilisi, Georgia · On-site

Working with money through code | ₿ | $ |
1) Refactored codebase | user authentication, notifications, transactions processing ... (SOLID, DRY, KISS)
2) Implemented automated testing and automatic documentation of critical components of a system
3) implemented fiat money TopUp system that is already used by a few main Georgian banks' payment systems
4) Took significant part in integration of fiat deposit feature using Card transfer
5) Enhanced existing custom user registration/login flows
6) Wrote technical documentation and communicated with external clients and integrators about the features related to fiat money
7) Mentoring and being mentored

Software Architectural DesignPythonDjangoBlockchainCryptocurrencyFinance+1

Proxify

Senior Fullstack (Backend Heavy) Python Developer

Dec 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs · Georgia · Remote

Working with clients from Germany & UK:
1. Adding features, fixing bugs, improving code quality by refactoring Backend | Django, DRF, PostGIS, GraphQL
2. Identifying and fixing performance issues
3. Maintaining 100% unit/integration test coverage | unittest, pytest, factoryboy, coverage
4. Implementing custom management commands/migrations/precommit hooks
5. Adding simple features in Frontend

GitPythonDjango REST FrameworkJavaScriptDjangoCelery+9

Sweeft digital

Middle Python Developer

Sep 2021 – Mar 2022 · 6 mos

1. Backend Web Development (Django)
2. Front End Web Development (React)
3. Web Scraping(Scrapy)

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)Data Structures

Maxinai

Software Engineer

Oct 2020 – Aug 2021 · 10 mos · Tbilisi

1. Working on Fullstack Projects | Python(Flask) + javascript(React)
2. Executing web-scraping tasks | Scrapy, Google Cloud Platform(GCP)
3. Working on Backend and Deploying mainly Machine Learning models | Github Workflows, Docker Compose
4. Doing Basic load/stress testing | Locust

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)Data Structures

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Full stack developer/consultant In Data Analysis Department

Sep 2019 – Apr 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Remote · Remote

1. Full stack web development | Python(Django/Flask), Javascript(React/Vue), PostgreSQL, MongoDB
2. Deployment of web services | Linux, Docker
3. Process Automation | Pandas, Selenium, Br-Helper, Scrapy e.t.c

GitHTMLPostgreSQLCSSPythonReact.js+10