Luka Samkharadze
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Software Developer
Luka is a chief technology officer and senior full-stack engineer with rich hands-on experience and a diverse portfolio of projects. He started his career as an individual contributor but soon transitioned into higher-level roles, managing teams, mentoring people, and setting reasonable goals in a company. Luka has worked in various environments, from dynamic startups to robust enterprise-grade applications, from team sizes of one to hundreds.
Portfolio
Experience
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Preferred Environment
MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The most amazing...
...things I've developed are a decentralized exchange, a referral system, staking, and an online eCommerce platform that accepts crypto as a payment method.
Work Experience
Chief Technology Officer
Rework
- Architected a platform that connects recruiters and job seekers. Oversaw the technical vision, strategy, and architecture and ensured the quality, security, and scalability of the product.
- Managed a group of front-end and back-end developers. Collaborated with a designer to create a user-friendly, intuitive experience and to offer insightful analytics for recruiters.
- Utilized the development stack of Angular, Express.js, NestJS, MongoDB, and AWS services: S3, ECR, Beanstalk, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Amplify, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
Senior Full-stack Engineer
Toptal
- Satisfied the technical needs of clients all over the world. Led and worked on projects like no-code discord bot builder, social growth tool, super-app, and several NFT projects.
- Developed a social growth platform that helped creators measure their success, improved metrics, increased performance, reviewed code, and mentored and distributed tasks to juniors.
- Led the development of a new growth tool that helped companies onboard new users, do surveys, incentivize it with rewards, and collect their social information such as email, discord, wallet address, etc.
- Used serverless architecture to process millions of discord messages for analytics and master-slave architecture to run user-made discord bots.
- Used software tools such as React, Next.js, Django, Flask, Express.js, Serverless, Ethereum, GraphQL, Redis, Airflow, Snowflake, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS services: S3, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, Beanstalk, Lambda, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
Senior Full-stack Engineer | Technical Lead
DX Software
- Supervised the development of DEX. Built multi-platform routing, a referral program, and a staking system with a locking mechanism and dynamic APY that utilized both off and on-chain calculations.
- Crafted multiple tokens and NFTs, with minting pages, admin panels, on/off-chain whitelisting, advanced tokenomics, staking, dynamic pricing, custom access control, nesting, and other web3 projects.
- Built the online payment integration for one of the biggest pest control companies in the UK, fixed their smart ad bidding system, bidding the lowest amount for specific keywords and locations throughout the day.
- Created an NFT pass and merch eCommerce store with an admin panel from scratch for the biggest UK web3 golf club community that accepted both fiat and crypto as payment methods.
- Utilized the software stack including React, Next.js, Express.js, NestJS, ASP.NET, SQL Server, MongoDB, Ethereum, GraphQL, Subgraph, Docker, and AWS services: S3, EC2, ECS, SNS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
Back-end Engineer
Evelyn
- Served as one of the lead developers in a social network startup that matched people based on their physiology and interests.
- Created a system that would ask users specific questions, craft their personality graph, and match them with people with similar or opposite interests based on their preferences.
- Tracked and used users' location data to suggest nearby people whom they might have had common interests with or people they could have met at events, concerts, or other public places.
- Dockerized the whole application, used the GitHub Container Registry, and implemented GitHub Actions, automatically updating containers running on the server after pushing a commit.
- Developed these solutions utilizing technologies like ASP.NET, Entity Framework, Xamarin, Google Maps, Firebase, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and Docker.
Front-end Engineer
TBC Bank Group
- Had the privilege to work on a retail internet banking platform in one of the biggest banks in the region. Reviewed code and guided novice developers to follow development best practices.
- Developed front-end solutions for major features like loan management and money transfers. Crafted the system design component library from scratch.
- Improved the project workflow by adding pipelines for formatting and linking pre-commit hooks, forcing us to write better, more readable code and helping us catch bugs early on.
- Used Angular and AngularJS frameworks to develop these solutions. Worked in a fully Agile team, followed the Scrum project management methodology, and used Jira to track sprints, epics, features, and bugs.
Experience
Decentralized Exchange
https://summitswap.finance/Merchandise Shop for NFT Community
https://merch.beartiger.ioTools that were mainly used were: React, NestJS, MongoDB, and AWS.
Front End for an Internet Bank
https://github.com/LukeSamkharadze/internet-bankSkills
Languages
TypeScript, Solidity, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, C#, SQL, GraphQL, C, C++, Swift, Kotlin, Java, Python, Go, Snowflake
Frameworks
Express.js, NestJS, Angular, Next.js, AngularJS, Truffle, OAuth 2, ASP.NET, Entity Framework Core, .NET, Django, Tailwind CSS, Serverless Framework
Libraries/APIs
React, Web3.js, Node.js, REST APIs, Stripe, Google Maps, Google Maps SDK, Google Maps API, AWS Amplify
Tools
MetaMask, GitHub, Google Analytics, ChatGPT, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), AWS CLI, AWS ELB, Apache Airflow, Mongoose, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, Amazon CloudWatch
Paradigms
REST, MEAN Stack, DevOps, Unit Testing, Serverless Architecture
Platforms
Ethereum, Blockchain, Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Linux, Docker, Android, iOS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS Lambda
Other
Ethers.js, Web3, Rinkeby, APIs, Web Applications, Full-stack, Smart Contracts, Front-end, Back-end, Cloud, Architecture, Deployment, Integration, API Integration, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Decentralized Applications, User Roles, Payment APIs, Online Payments, Templates, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, OWASP, Reports, Cryptocurrency, Bots, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, Amazon Route 53, Non-fungible Tokens (NFT), Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Design Systems, Online Banking, Serverless, Team Management, Leadership, Machine Learning
Storage
MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Google Cloud, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Industry Expertise
Trading Systems
Education
Associate's Degree in Computer Science
City College of San Francisco - San Francisco, CA, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
Free University of Tbilisi - Tbilisi, Georgia
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