Vaso is available for hire

Vaso Chaduneli

Verified Expert in Engineering

Back-end Developer

Tbilisi, Georgia

Toptal member since August 24, 2022

Expertise

PHP Git Laravel JavaScript SQL MySQL Python PostgreSQL Linux Bash Redis Django Vue Elasticsearch

Bio

Vaso is a back-end developer with 6+ years of experience building software solutions for startups and established companies. He specializes in Laravel and Django frameworks and has extensive expertise in writing and optimizing complex SQL queries. Vaso's industry experience is backed by a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science, and he excels as a team leader or member.

Portfolio

Kikliko

NGINX, Vue, React Native, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)...

Apollo 11

Serverless, PostgreSQL, Flask, Django, Git, Jira, Teams, Serverless Framework...

Livo - ლივო

PHP, Git, Slack, Metabase, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Elasticsearch, Python 3, MySQL...

Experience

PHP - 9 years Git - 8 years Laravel - 6 years Linux - 6 years PostgreSQL - 6 years Python 3 - 6 years Bash - 6 years Elasticsearch - 4 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Ubuntu, PhpStorm, PyCharm, Slack, Postman

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed is Livo, a digital ecosystem for real estate in Georgia, including its SaaS and auction functions.

Work Experience

Co-founder and CTO

2021 - PRESENT

Kikliko

Generated the idea to create a platform that would allow tens of millions of people to share their favorite clips from movies and TV shows to express emotions while messaging.
Fulfilled the idea and created it from scratch, including the web application, Google Chrome browser extension, API, and iOS and Android apps.
Set up, configured, and integrated Elasticsearch with the platform and created commands that sync data between Elasticsearch and the SQL database.
Created a RESTful API for integrations, Postman collections, and documentation.
Built a dashboard for monitoring trending searches and user demand.
Created a Python script that cuts movie clips based on captions.
Managed and collaborated with the team, reviewed their code, and advised them on how to improve themselves as programmers.

Technologies: NGINX, Vue, React Native, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Python 3, Laravel, PHP, Asana, Elasticsearch, Postman, Slack, Firebase, PostgreSQL, Python, REST APIs, Amazon Web Services (AWS), HTML, JavaScript, API Development

Senior Back-end Engineer

2011 - 2022

Apollo 11

Developed Artiso, an auction management system (AMS), with my team.
Build the AMS bidding module (a separate product) from zero to production with serverless architecture using AWS Lambda.
Managed team of four: assigned work and reviewed code before merging features for testing.

Technologies: Serverless, PostgreSQL, Flask, Django, Git, Jira, Teams, Serverless Framework, MySQL, Python, REST APIs, Node.js, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon DynamoDB, HTML, JavaScript, API Development

Senior Back-end Engineer

2019 - 2021

Livo - ლივო

Developed the digital ecosystem for real estate from zero to production.
Created integrations with multiple payment providers.
Built integrations to exchange information among third parties.
Created a reporting dashboard in Metabase, containing dozens of reports written in SQL.
Managed team of four: assigned tasks, reviewed code, and merged features for testing.
Created a CI/CD pipeline with GitLab, which simplified the deployment process.
Set up, configured, and integrated an Elasticsearch server in the main website, resulting in quicker searches with better results.
Developed a real estate auction service from zero to production. The service manages balances, real-time bidding, two-factor authentication (2FA), and more.
Built a real estate estimate service from zero to production used by colleges to estimate real estate value. What started as an internal project evolved into a SaaS solution.

Technologies: PHP, Git, Slack, Metabase, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Elasticsearch, Python 3, MySQL, Python, REST APIs, Node.js, Amazon Web Services (AWS), HTML, JavaScript, API Development

Mid Back-end Engineer

2018 - 2019

Fincue

Developed an app used by microfinance companies to manage loans.
Build integrations with banks and payment providers in Ukraine, Spain, and Kazakhstan.
Wrote complex SQL queries to report information from the database and used them to create a Metabase dashboard.
Fixed bugs that resulted in losses by using floating-point arithmetic.

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Kibana, Asana, Slack, Git, GitLab, Postman, Linux, Algorithms, SQL, Metabase, Sentry, Redis, TypeScript, MySQL, Python, REST APIs, Node.js, HTML, JavaScript, API Development

Teaching Assistant

2015 - 2016

Free University of Tbilisi

Assisted freshmen in better understanding programming basics.
Corrected exams and conducted practice sessions after exams to solve problems together.
Corrected homework and advised students on better ways to perform specific tasks.

Technologies: Java, MySQL, Python, HTML

Experience

Kikliko.com

https://kikliko.com

Kikliko is used by tens of millions of people to share their favorite clips from movies and TV shows to express emotions while messaging. It's basically like a TikTok for messaging. As the CTO, I managed all technical aspects, including the front-end and React Native developers and building the platform core and API on the back end.

Livo | Digital Ecosystem for Real Estate

https://livo.ge

As a back-end developer I collaborated with my team to develop the overall platform core and API. We focused on different elements of Livo, including property evaluations, auctions, and integrations with other companies participating in TBC NET.

Artisio AMS - Auction Management System

https://artisio.co

Artisio is an auction management system and bidding as a service.
It includes creating items, managing stock, customers, payments, KYC, dashboards, reporting, etc. It has its submodule for bidding and is a
scalable and customizable AMS for companies and physical collectors, too.

Education

2014 - 2018

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science

Free University of Tbilisi - Tbilisi, Georgia

Skills

Libraries/APIs

API Development, Vue, Node.js, REST APIs

Tools

Git, Slack, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Sentry, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Postman, NGINX, Asana, PhpStorm, PyCharm, Jira, Kibana

Languages

PHP, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, Python 3, Bash, TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, C, Assembler, C#

Frameworks

Laravel, Django, Flask, Serverless Framework, Unity, Nuxt.js, React Native

Platforms

Linux, Apache2, DigitalOcean, Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Firebase, MacOS, AWS Lambda

Storage

PostgreSQL, MySQL, PostGIS, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redis, Amazon DynamoDB

Paradigms

REST

Other

Algorithms, Metabase, Serverless, Cloudflare, Teams, APIs

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