Avtandil Kikabidze
Software Engineer at Ilia State University
Tbilisi, Georgia
Summary
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Top SchoolAvtandil Kikabidze is a versatile software engineer from Tbilisi with over a decade of experience building web, desktop, and mobile applications, and a solid command of PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Linux and complementary interests in Python and Android. He has held senior and chief engineering roles in academia and industry, driving custom CMS, tooling, and backend services while focusing on refactoring, reliability, and performance. An active open-source contributor, he added Python formatting to a popular Sublime Text plugin and implemented an Elasticsearch handler for Monolog, demonstrating attention to cross-version compatibility and logging integrations. Comfortable across full-stack responsibilities, Avtandil blends pragmatic engineering with curiosity—he’s as likely to tune a database schema or logging pipeline as he is to explore new languages or developer tooling.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Machine Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Machine Engineering at Georgian Technical University#68 Middle SchoolMiddle, Middle at Tbilisi #68 School
Georgian, English, Russian
Stackoverflow
980reputation
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36answers
12questions
Github Skills (26)
monolog10
python10
amazon-elasticsearch10
sublime-text10
plugin-development10
telegram-bot-api10
implement10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
psr-310
sdk10
aws-elasticsearch10
command-line10
elasticsearch10
logging10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
akalongman/sublimetext-codeformatter
Mar 2013 - Oct 2019
Code Formatter plugin for ST2/ST3
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 122 commits, 49 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Avtandil primarily contributed to the code formatter plugin, adding support for Python formatting. They implemented a Python beautifier feature, including a PythonTidy module. The user also fixed bugs related to importing and handling strings, ensuring correct functionality across different Python versions and Sublime Text versions. Furthermore, the user added messages and configurations to extend and improve the plugin.
beautifierformatter-pluginatom-editorcode-formattersublime
php-telegram-bot/core
Jun 2015 - Oct 2020
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 144 commits, 26 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Avtandil appears to be focused on building the back-end logic for a Telegram bot. Their commits show initial setup and implementation of commands, including an echo command, and a help command. They are working with PHP and using the Telegram Bot API to create a functional bot, building core functionalities for handling incoming messages and processing commands within the context of the 'php-telegram-bot/core' repository. They also implemented database integration by creating table `messages` and users, along with basic CRUD functionality.
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