Valentine Gogichashvili
Director Of Engineering at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolValentine Gogichashvili is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling data, backend, and client engineering teams, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Zalando in Berlin. He has a strong track record leading large, production-critical systems—from one of the world’s largest PostgreSQL installations to centralized data lakes, messaging platforms (Nakadi), and experimentation and tracking infrastructures. Comfortable bridging deep technical execution and organizational strategy, he has moved between hands-on database and Java work to directing cross-functional product analytics, apps, and client engineering teams. Actively hiring senior engineers across Python, Java, Flink/Spark, React/UX and data-pipeline domains, he combines physics-rooted analytical thinking with pragmatic delivery at scale. Not obvious from the title: he sponsored the formation of a Data Science Guild to improve collaboration between Data Scientists and Engineers, showing a focus on building engineering culture as well as systems.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Physics Physics and Informatics, Master of Physics Physics and Informatics at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Georgian, Russian, German, English
Github Skills (130)
postgresql10
proxy10
abstraction10
message-queue10
procedures10
flask-extensions10
rest-api10
message-passing10
api10
axon-framework10
postgresql-database10
data-infrastructure10
kafka10
java10
bus10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
valgog/pydidit
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
valgog/pg_sql_parser
Jun 2014 - Jun 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years
sql-parsersqlpostgrespgsqlparser
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