Sandro Tchikovani
Senior Engineering Manager at Tinder
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSandro Tchikovani is a Senior Engineering Manager in Mountain View with 12 years of software experience and a decade-plus focus on mobile development, currently leading major parts of Tinder’s Pre-Match experience. He blends hands-on engineering—having shipped core features like Swiping Cards, chat, and short-video rendering—with people leadership, mentoring and growing cross-platform teams to deliver measurable engagement and revenue outcomes. A two-time founder, Sandro also built and shipped a consumer iOS app (Trophiz) and has experience driving app rebrands and performance improvements at Udemy and TripAdvisor. Known for championing modular architectures and rigorous planning, he pairs product-aligned roadmaps with practical engineering practices like code-review best practices and experiment-driven rollouts. Though a manager today, he still contributes technically when needed and enjoys building compelling mobile experiences from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechDevelopment, Data mining, Development, Data mining at California State University, Long BeachInternational Business, International Business at ICOGESBac Stg, Marketing, Bac Stg, Marketing at Catherine Laboure
French, Russian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (84)
uicollectionview10
mongoose9
pdf-viewer9
mongo-express9
instagram9
pdf9
pdfjs9
reactstrap9
mean-stack9
swift8
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react-pdf8
expressjs8
boilerplate8
react8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Moovizi/ios-mobile
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 12 pushes, 5 branches in 19 days
udemy/MagicalRecord
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
Super Awesome Easy Fetching for Core Data 1!!!11!!!!1!
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
fetchingcore-data
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