Nika Khutsishvili

Lead engineer on a digital banking platform, owning the deposit service and modernizing it into an event-driven microservice on Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Manages 500K+ active deposit accounts with CQRS, async workflows, and idempotent consumers.

Built JWT-secured live game APIs and back-office tools for a mobile gaming platform with 700-800K active players. Owned services end to end, including performance tuning that cut memory consumption by 20%.

Modernized core APIs of a media-monitoring platform and added IdentityServer-based authentication. Designed and shipped an automated AI/NLP text-summarization workflow that saved roughly 16 analyst-hours per week.

Launched two systems from scratch for the Ministry of Justice and the Penitentiary Service. Built full-stack solutions with ASP.NET Core MVC, Entity Framework, MongoDB, Angular, and React, applying CQRS and event-driven patterns.

Led development of core backend services, introducing architectural improvements and optimizing systems. Mentored 3 junior developers and hardened GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

Built and maintained C# / .NET backend services and Angular front-end features in an Agile delivery team. Promoted to Senior .NET Developer in 2019.

Master of Science in Computer Science from Georgian Technical University, completed in 2017.

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from Free University of Tbilisi, completed in 2015.