Nika Kasradze
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Tbilisi, Georgia
Toptal member since March 16, 2022
Nika is a back-end software developer. His experience covers many of today's popular technology stacks and his code is running on half a million devices worldwide. At all times, Nika acts responsibly and communicates proactively in the best interests of his clients.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Ubuntu, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Slack
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is Georgia's number one mobile game "Martivi Logika", available on Android and iOS and so far has over half a million downloads.
Work Experience
Node.js Developer
Quantori
- Developed features, fixed bugs, and handled change requests for a Node.js app for lab workers.
- Created and updated migrations to our relational database system.
- Learned Azure Cognitive Search and took part in developing a search service for our app.
Senior Node.js Developer
New Age Horizon
- Participated as part of a team developing a new back office for a gambling platform.
- Groomed and developed new features, fixed bugs, and optimized existing code.
- Wrote migrations and events that synchronized data from the old back office into the new one. Used Elasticsearch in the old version, while the new one used PostgreSQL.
Back-end Developer
AdjaraPay
- Developed a back office for an online payment system. Allowed users to pay their utilities and bills through the system.
- Worked as a full-stack developer for a year using Angular and Node.js.
- Helped integrate financial APIs to securely handle the payment and card information.
Full-stack Game Developer
Bonsters
- Developed Georgia's most popular mobile game, Martivi Logika." Released on the App Store and Google Play Store.
- Launched live competitions every month in "Martivi Logika" with about a thousand users on each launch. We used AWS infrastructure for the back end.
- Developed a .NET app using FFmpeg for batch processing thousands of images into app-ready content (resizing, cropping, adding watermarks, etc.).
- Developed several prototypes of games and experimental mobile graphic software in the Unity 3D game engine.
Unity 3D Developer
VRex Immersive
- Developed a virtual reality (VR) app for virtual tours of various locations in Georgia.
- Won at the national start-up seeding competition in Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Developed a batch program for video transcoding for better performance of our VR app.
Junior Game Developer
Lemondo Entertainment
- Developed mobile trivia games for major publishers on the App Store and Google Play Store.
- Developed plugins for Unity 3D to access the native environment of iOS and Android using Quixel Bridge.
- Developed and tested prototypes of new trivia games.
Experience
Georgia's #1 mobile game - "Martivi Logika"
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
American University in Bulgaria - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js
Tools
Git, Sequelize, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Slack Development
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Bash
Frameworks
Express.js, NestJS, Fastify, Unity, Jest
Storage
Redis, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3, Elasticsearch, AWS
Platforms
AWS Lambda, Docker, Heroku, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, Visual Studio Development, AWS
Other
TypeORM, Amazon API, AWS RDS, Command Prompt (CMD), Virtual Reality, Tourism
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