Giorgi Bagdavadze

Sep 2020 – Present (4 years 5 months)

Building Ed-tech services serving thousands of daily active students:

Leading the development of a virtual classroom, implementing real-time audio/video conferencing capabilities integrated with collaborative learning tools and document-sharing functionality using Typescript, React, Node.js, and Yjs
Integrated audio/video and collaborative learning tools into a chat-based on-demand-tutoring app
Integrated AI-based answer generation system that helps tutors respond faster by generating drafts
Implemented a session analysis system, which summarizes sessions after they're finished and embed them for semantic search, enabling tutors to access relevant past discussions and identify learning patterns quickly

January 2018 – August 2020 (2 years 8 months)

Built e-commerce solutions using React, Ruby on Rails, Go and Postgres, enabling merchants to create and manage their online stores:

Implemented a UI-kit for a drag-and-drop no-code page builder that was used for configuring elements on a page, enabling non-technical users to create and modify e-commerce pages
Developed Shopify product catalog import functionality, enabling merchants to sync and display their product catalog data within the page builder
Built a browser-based React component editor with a live-preview functionality for our low-code page builder
Built a CI pipeline that automated the build process for the merchant storefronts, handling React component compilation and CMS data integration
Developed an e-commerce SDK that simplified the implementation of the cart, checkout and other common commerce flows in React, reducing development time for merchants building custom storefronts

September 2017 – January 2018 (5 months)

Rewrote the Cordova based app into React Native, supporting iOS and Web platforms (react-native-web)
Wrote a native bridge for handwriting recognition on iOS

Feb 2016 – Sep 2017 (1 year 8 months)

Developed financial software solutions using React, Node.js, PHP, MySQL, and Angular, focusing on loan management and payment systems:

Built a complex loan portfolio tracking system with React and Redux, implementing hundreds of interconnected forms while maintaining a normalized state structure and integrating with cloud services including Google Sheets and OneDrive
Developed and deployed multiple Node.js/React microservices including a real-time currency exchange rate display system, an operator chatbot for data retrieval, and an SMS notification service
Independently developed a self-service payment kiosk application using Angular, enabling users to pay utility bills and loans through multiple provider integrations, with a touch-optimized interface

Jun 2015 – Dec 2016 (1 year 7 months)

Built interactive software for photo printing kiosks using JavaScript, Node.js, Canvas API, and WebSocket technologies:

Developed the kiosk's frontend interface with CSS animations and WebSocket integration, enabling users to print photos from multiple sources including Instagram and Bluetooth
Implemented a real-time photo capture and processing module using WebRTC and Canvas API, creating both still photos and animated GIFs from the kiosk's camera
Built a Node.js service for log management and media synchronization between kiosks and the main server, handling photo and GIF uploads
Developed a real-time control panel that monitored the status of all kiosks, tracking key metrics including paper levels, operational status, and system health

Giorgi Bagdavadze @notgiorgi