Summary
Daviti Kakhiani is an engineering leader and platform architect with 10+ years of experience building cloud-native systems, AI-driven products, and cross-cultural engineering teams. He currently splits leadership across Time Doctor and Bank of Georgia, owning product-wide architecture at Time Doctor and leading a Gemini-powered chatbot transformation at the bank that lifted full-service rates and cut costs by ~75%. He has repeatedly rebuilt teams and platformsโfrom Heroku-to-GCP migrations and Terraform-led IaC to microfrontends and a trusted-device system serving 500k+ daily usersโcombining hands-on engineering with strategic operational cost control. A PhD candidate in AI, he bridges research and production: he shipped an AI-powered data analysis MVP at Time Doctor and helped build a proprietary RAG model and voice mode for banking. Known for pragmatic experimentation, he introduces observability, CI/CD, and AI-assisted tooling to reduce toil and accelerate productization. Based in Tbilisi, he thrives on shaping scalable architectures and turning ML prototypes into measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Georgian Technical University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Informatics, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Informatics at Caucasus University
Summer School, Practical Robotics with 3D printing, Summer School, Practical Robotics with 3D printing at Tallinn University of Technology
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at #41 Physic and Math school Kutaisi
Georgian, Russian, English