Zura Gogoladze, Developer in Tbilisi, Georgia
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Zura Gogoladze

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Back-end Developer

Location
Tbilisi, Georgia
Toptal Member Since
April 27, 2021

Zura is a results-driven full-stack developer with over five years of hands-on development experience, specializing in .NET and microservices. He's helped deliver a range of projects, including an electronic wallet, a traveler app, and a banking app that helps people apply for loans remotely. Thanks to being a quick learner who can easily adapt to new platforms and technologies, Zura can hit the ground running on nearly any project.

Portfolio

Microsoft
C#, .NET, Distributed Systems, Automation, Microsoft Exchange, Scalability...
Qualfon
Vue, Application Engineering, APIs, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, SQL, TypeScript...
Sagacity Golf Technologies, Inc.
C#, Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework, Git, Visual Studio, .NET Core, APIs...

Experience

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Slack, Teams, Jira, .NET, C#, SQL, JavaScript, Vue

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed is a travel app called Biliki that ranked number one in the App Store's trending app list.

Work Experience

Software Engineer

2021 - PRESENT
Microsoft
  • Worked with exchange online that is distributed worldwide across thousands of servers and serves millions of customers.
  • Created automation workflow that observes distributed L2 cache and creates tickets based on the behavior.
  • Fixed bugs and helped the team to develop new features using C# and .NET framework.
  • Improved traceability of the project by adding logs to the distributed cloud.
  • Explained the project to new developers and created and assigned tasks to them.
Technologies: C#, .NET, Distributed Systems, Automation, Microsoft Exchange, Scalability, Distributed Caches, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Azure, MS Exchange, Messaging, Azure Logic Apps, Redis

Full-stack Software Engineer

2023 - 2023
Qualfon
  • Played an integral role in successfully integrating online card payments through Stripe. This integration was accomplished by skillfully combining the capabilities of Vue and .NET technologies.
  • Took on a leadership role by guiding junior developers—in a pivotal go-live event for one of the company's most prominent clients—meticulously reviewing and approving PRs and diligently working on pending user stories.
  • Developed a shared library tailored for promotions. Integrated this library into one of our projects, enabling tenants to easily create and apply promotions based on their specific requirements.
Technologies: Vue, Application Engineering, APIs, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, SQL, TypeScript, .NET, React, Angular, Stripe, Stripe API

Back-end Developer

2021 - 2022
Sagacity Golf Technologies, Inc.
  • Created a service using .NET Core that analyzed data from different sources like a REST API and file uploads, normalized all data, and saved this information to a SQL relational database.
  • Built background services using Hangfire that recurrently processed saved data based on domain logic.
  • Created a report page using TypeScript, getting data from a back-end service and using various analytics tools to display to customers.
Technologies: C#, Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework, Git, Visual Studio, .NET Core, APIs, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Azure, Architecture

Software Developer

2020 - 2021
PASHA Bank in Georgia
  • Created a new Consul cluster for a mobile bank in a microservices environment. Used GitHub Actions to add CI/CD pipelines to automate Docker package creation for services and deployment to servers.
  • Participated in microservices creation within their bounded contexts, planned, split, and merged services based on their sizes and context, and added an identity server for authentication and authorization of services and customers.
  • Built a website that identifies customers by ID cards and self-taken photos and integrated it with a provider.
  • Explained the project to junior developers, assigned tasks, and checked its quality.
Technologies: .NET, SQL, RabbitMQ, Kibana, Consul, CQRS, Domain-driven Design (DDD), Unit Testing, Jira, Agile, Scrum, .NET Core, C#, APIs, RESTful Development, OAuth, OAuth 2, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Azure, Messaging, Elasticsearch, Architecture, Redis

Software Developer

2019 - 2020
Wandio
  • Developed an app for travelers and an admin panel for the client. The app considered the user's distance from the tour and made specific suggestions (determined by several factors) to registered users.
  • Fixed bugs and added features for several projects.
  • Developed a website where users can pay utilities and integrated it with a utility payment provider.
  • Managed branching flows, started using Gitflow Workflow, and created and checked merge requests.
  • Created and modified services based on domain-driven design.
  • Constructed pipelines for new service deployment in a swarm cluster.
  • Explained the project to junior developers, assigned tasks, and checked the code.
Technologies: .NET, SQL, JavaScript, Microservices, Domain-driven Design (DDD), RabbitMQ, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Unit Testing, Jira, Agile, Scrum, .NET Core, C#, APIs, RESTful Development, OAuth, Zoom, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Messaging, Architecture, Redis

Full-stack Developer

2018 - 2019
Leavingstone
  • Developed several apps for customers using the .NET environment.
  • Fixed bugs and added new features for several projects.
  • Used .NET Core as an API and Vue for the client side.
Technologies: C#, .NET, SQL, JavaScript, Vue, Nuxt.js, HTML, CSS, .NET Core, APIs, RESTful Development, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Engineer

2014 - 2018
Silknet
  • Planned projects for new customers using a geographic information system (GIS) and a custom customer relationship management (CRM).
  • Improved regional switch connections by adding backup routes.
  • Improved an LTE network in Georgia by adding new sites.
Technologies: Project Planning, Long-term Evolution (LTE), GIS

Neollet

An electronic wallet. As a back-end developer, I accomplished the following tasks:

• Wrote an API for front-end developers.
• Integrated utility payments.
• Implemented commission management for payments.
• Added backward steps if something went wrong using SAGA.
• Implemented payment transfers and gave reports to the client.
• Worked on common libraries, added features, and fixed bugs.

Biliki App

https://bilikiapp.com
An app for travelers. As a back-end developer, I accomplished the following tasks:

• Wrote an API for Android and iOS developers.
• Created an admin panel where an admin could create or modify tours, and users could get these tour suggestions based on distance, what they like, and other factors. Users could apply for a tour and get all the information.

ReBank | Loan Application

https://rebank.ge/application/1/mobile
An app for obtaining loans remotely. As a back-end developer, I integrated a provider that reads data from IDs and validates IDs by checking with the bank data. If everything goes smoothly, it is saved in our database, and we continue with the application.

Languages

C#, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, TypeScript

Frameworks

.NET, .NET Core, OAuth 2, Nuxt.js, ASP.NET, Angular

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs, Entity Framework, Vue, jQuery, Google Maps, React, Stripe, Stripe API

Paradigms

Unit Testing, RESTful Development, Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Agile, Scrum, Agile Software Development, Clean Code, Automation

Other

APIs, Domain-driven Design (DDD), OAuth, Architecture, Teams, Algorithms, Web Development, Project Planning, Long-term Evolution (LTE), Consul, CCNA, Seq, MinIO, Distributed Systems, Messaging, Cosmos, Distributed Caches, Integration Testing, Scalability, Application Engineering

Tools

RabbitMQ, Docker Swarm, Visual Studio, Zoom, Jira, GIS, Kibana, GitLab CI/CD, MS Exchange, Git, Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft Exchange

Platforms

Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Azure

Storage

PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Microsoft SQL Server

Industry Expertise

Project Management

2015 - 2017

Master's Degree in Web Page, Digital/multimedia, and Information Resources Design

Georgian Technical University - Tbilisi, Georgia

2011 - 2015

Bachelor's Degree in Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University - Tbilisi, Georgia

JUNE 2018 - PRESENT

ASP.NET MVC

GeoLab

JUNE 2011 - PRESENT

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association — GRENA