Principal Engineer · Fintech & AI
I started on a crypto exchange's customer app. Today I lead the architecture of its new core.
Built by me and live: identity checks, audit history, card and bank payments.
Since November 2022 at an exchange licensed by the National Bank of Georgia: the React customer app (2022–2024), the backend (2024–2026), the new Go core platform (2026).
A demo from my lab. AI agents can write this and it can pass tests. My review agents check money code.
Each run is a recorded trace of the game's real code, checked by a test on every build.
I lead the architecture of the new core platform (Go) and first-authored 237 of its 278 architecture decision records.
A crypto exchange licensed by the National Bank of Georgia. Built by me and live: the new identity checks, the audit history and the payment-provider integration (bank-app deposits, card payments, recurring card charges). One rule I set: every customer action declares how a repeat request is handled and the build checks it.
Live listings · booking built
19 padel clubs in Tbilisi listed publicly. Booking with payment is built; payments are still in test mode.
Pre-launch · website live
A live website and a worked-out cost model. Next: the first pilot building.
Past work
Designed and wrote the backend for live dynamic pricing.
Live · on hold
Schedule, exams, grades and shared lecture notes in one place.
Two kinds of work, both where money or identity must be right.
I'm open to new work: a full-time role, a contract, part-time work, a one-off project or a review.
A payment-provider integration, an identity-check flow, an audit history, or the architecture around them.
The same kinds of systems I built and run at the exchange. The work
If your team is bringing in coding agents, I set up what I run myself: rules the agents read first, review agents for the risky parts, safety hooks and a check on the set-up itself. Scope after a first look at your repo.
In one audit on my team, a verifier agent re-checked 111 claims made by other agents and corrected 12. How I work
AI coding agents write much of my code. That works only when the checks around them are stricter than the agents. I write those checks and measure them.
Every task starts from a written plan and the project's rules, which the agents read first.
147 entries in a behaviour contract that the build checks PlayTime, Oct 2026
Each agent works on one task, on its own branch.
7 features shipped live in 4 days PlayTime, Oct 2026
Lint, types, tests and schema checks block anything that fails.
27 automatic checks in 12 pipeline files PlayTime, Oct 2026
Separate review agents check the risky parts: money, permissions, data.
111 agent claims re-checked in one audit; 12 corrected my fintech team, 2026
Money, accounts and anything public need a person's yes first.
11 of 11 launch decisions signed off by me WasteAway, Oct 2026
I'm a Principal Engineer based in Tbilisi, Georgia (UTC+4), working remotely in English. Since November 2022 I've worked on a licensed crypto exchange. I started on its customer web app, moved to its backend and now lead the architecture of its new core platform.
On the side I build my own products, PlayTime and WasteAway, with AI agents doing most of the coding.
Hiring for a role, or need help on a project? Email me a few lines and we'll find a time for a short call.