Summary
Papuna Gagnidze is a DevOps and QA automation engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, highly available systems and leading teams across startups and enterprise environments. Early CCNA/CCNP training gave him deep networking instincts that he leverages to architect multi-region infrastructures, optimize performance, and reduce costs at scale. He has founded Loopback, co-founded GEOSTQB, and shipped diverse projects from an AI text-to-product platform to a peer-to-peer multiplayer game, showing a mix of product-minded engineering and entrepreneurial drive. Known for hiring and mentoring talent—having interviewed over 200 QA candidates—he also pilots Infrastructure as Code practices (AWS CDK/TypeScript) and observability frameworks that materially improve reliability and incident response. Based in Lower Kartli, Georgia, he combines hands-on troubleshooting of distributed systems with a knack for shipping pragmatic automation and test strategies.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Studied towards a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Studied towards a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at Tbilisi State University