Summary
Nick Tsutsunava is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in payments with 11 years of experience designing scalable Java-based systems and modernizing backend architectures. At Adyen he has led greenfield mobile payments platforms and a distributed robotic testing fleet, introducing Kubernetes, Redis, RabbitMQ and Spring to drive reliability and operational scalability. He combines hands-on engineering with mentorship, coaching teams through architecture shifts that balance monolith simplicity and service-oriented flexibility. With a Mechatronics background and robotics projects like Project MARCH and a powered-knee prosthesis UI, he brings uncommon embedded and real-time control insight to cloud-native payments problems. Based in Chicago, he pairs strong cross-cultural communication skills with a pragmatic, iterative approach to shipping complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
International School Hilversum
High School, High School at Greenwich High School
Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology
Georgian, English, Dutch