Tbilisi, Georgia · writing code since 2007
Avtandil Kikabidze
Software architect. 19 years.
I build the systems that Georgian universities, public bodies and newsrooms run on, and I keep them running.
- 19years
- 15,000students and staff
- 2.4Minstalls
- 4.0kstars
Truso valley, from my drone
Open source
Packages people run
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php-telegram-bot
PHP library for the Telegram Bot API.
2.4M installs 4.0k stars
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php-ip-tools
IPv4 and IPv6 address and range tools for PHP.
270k installs 147 stars
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laravel-lodash
Helpers and structure for larger Laravel applications.
102k installs 97 stars
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laravel-multilang
Multi-locale content for Laravel.
15k installs 53 stars
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CodeFormatter
Code formatter plugin for Sublime Text.
769 stars
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php-code-style
Shared PHP coding standard configuration.
25k installs 9 stars
Experience
Where the systems run
Roles
- Chief Software Engineer, Tbilisi State Medical University Lead the architecture and the engineering team behind the university's learning platform, which supports 10,000 concurrent users.
- Consulting architect, Independent practice Architecture and infrastructure for Inex Group (Georgia's largest carrier and shipping company), PowerPay (an open energy market platform) and Caucasus International University.
- Senior Software Engineer, SOCAR Georgia Petroleum Backend of the online cabinet for 50,000 business and retail customers.
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)
Blog
Writing
Standing
Outside the day job
- Co-author of the Georgian vocational education standard for Android development
- Web design technical expert, WorldSkills Georgia
- Talk: Security of enterprise web applications, PHP International Conference, Tbilisi
Street View
61M views of Georgia
About
In my own words
I build and run the parts of a system nobody sees, much of it for Georgian universities, and outside software I take a drone to mountain passes and valleys.
I stayed with the parts of a system nobody sees: billing, search, zero-downtime deployments, monitoring, and the database that must not lose a row. Much of that work has been for universities, where the real load test is enrollment week.
Outside software I take a 360° camera and a drone to mountain passes and valleys.
I started writing code on my own projects and stayed with the parts of a system nobody sees: billing, search, zero-downtime deployments, monitoring, and the database that must not lose a row. Much of that work has been for universities, where the real load test is enrollment week.
Outside software I take a 360° camera and a drone to mountain passes and valleys.
I photograph and film Georgia: 4,241 photos with 61M views on Google Maps, and drone video on YouTube. More on the Street View page.
Right now I lead engineering at Tbilisi State Medical University and write about how I work with coding agents.