Aka Kherkeladze
Chief Technology Officer at citycom · სითიქომი
Tbilisi, Georgia
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Top SchoolAka Kherkeladze is a Chief Technology Officer and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years building reliable, scalable systems from infrastructure to product. Based in Tbilisi, he has led full lifecycle platform development—architecting payment gateways, ETL pipelines, microservices, and AI-driven recruitment agents—while managing cross-functional teams and DevOps at startups and YC-backed ventures. He combines hands-on engineering (from Raspberry Pi prototypes to EKS clusters and Terraform imports) with strategic tech leadership, recently shaping core architecture at Scoutr.ai and now steering technology at citycom. Aka is pragmatic about simplicity and reliability, emphasizing data-driven solutions that improve hiring efficiency and user experience. An advocate of open source (“In Open Source We Trust”), he blends production-grade engineering with community-minded tooling and integrations. Unusually, his background spans embedded hardware projects and large-scale cloud platforms, giving him a rare end-to-end systems perspective.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, School of Engineering, Bachelor's degree, School of Engineering at Ilia State University
English, Georgian
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Github Skills (51)
sqlite10
hapi10
typescript10
validation10
schema10
mysql9
mariadb9
postgresql9
cockroachdb9
javascript9
typeorm9
orm9
nodejs9
sql-server9
database9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kherkeladze/DefinitelyTyped
Sep 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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kherkeladze/tms
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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