Luka Khimshiashvili

Full-Stack Software Developer · Building since age 15
lukakhimshiashvili4@gmail.com
(+995) 591 193 540 · Tbilisi, Georgia
github.com/lukakh1 · linkedin.com/in/luka-khimshiashvili
Open to remote full-stack roles

Luka Khimshiashvili

~ $whoami →Full-Stack Software Engineer

I've been building products since I was 15 — and shipping, deploying and debugging them since not long after. Currently at Alien Lab, where I've built two products on my own.

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Tbilisi, Georgia · UTC+4 B.Sc. Computer Science, 2026 Remote-first
6+
Years writing code professionally
6
Companies & teams
10+
Apps & platforms shipped
About · 01

Six years of building. Still learning.

A short version of how I got here.

I'm a full-stack software engineer with six years of professional experience — I started at 15, writing React Native apps for a small studio in Georgia, and just kept going from there.

I went to Komarovi School Pansion in Tbilisi for high school, specializing in mathematics and physics. After national exams I went to Kutaisi International University on a full scholarship, where I earned a Computer Science degree.

Most of my work has been in the modern JavaScript ecosystem — React and React Native first, then Next.js, Node, and the database layer underneath. Over the years I've built end-to-end platforms — a browser-based PDF product and an NFT event-ticketing marketplace — admin tooling for a smart-TV network, and a handful of mobile apps.

What I've picked up alongside that is what happens after the merge. I write the GitLab pipelines that gate my own code — lint, typecheck, tests, dependency scanning, secret detection — because I used to find those problems at deploy time instead. I've deployed to Vercel, Render and Supabase in production, and I've built the whole stack myself on AWS: EC2, nginx, a load balancer, CloudFront, RDS and Memcached.

I'm currently at Alien Lab, where I've built two of the company's products on my own. When something breaks in production, I know how to work out which side of the boundary it broke on.

Experience · 02

Where I’ve worked.

From mobile apps at 15, to full-stack work today.

  1. CurrentJun 2026 — Present

    Software Engineer

    Alien Lab LLC · Tbilisi, Georgia
    • MeetReferral (meetreferral.com) — an affiliate and creator-marketing marketplace for Georgia and the South Caucasus, built solo. Brands run campaigns, creators promote through referral links, and commissions settle against a ledger. Auth, roles and permissions, file uploads, real-time updates, and third-party API integrations.
    • MyBusiness (mybusiness.ge) — a marketplace for buying, selling and renting businesses in Georgia, built solo, including the payment flow and the multi-tenant data model.
    • Wrote the GitLab CI pipelines both products run on — lint, typecheck and tests on every merge request, plus dependency scanning and secret detection.
    • Next.js on Vercel with Supabase underneath; separate dev and prod environments, deploying from Git on merge.
  2. Sep 2025 — Jun 2026

    Software Developer

    Ruby Labs · Zendocs · Remote
    • Built core product surfaces — the PDF editor, agreements wizard, and reusable templates — on the Nutrient SDK (PSPDFKit).
    • Built user workspaces and debugged the end-to-end payment flow (PayNext).
    • Owned database architecture decisions on Payload CMS + Supabase, modeling the schema for product needs; media storage on Cloudflare R2.
    • Drove SEO/GEO improvements to grow organic reach.
  3. Feb 2025 — Aug 2025

    Full-Stack Developer

    sTickets · NFT event ticketing
    • Built the organizer dashboard (paid and free event publishing with an approval workflow), the customer marketplace, and a ticket resale flow.
    • Integrated live payments (Fastoo) and kept the on-chain NFT ticket layer in sync with PostgreSQL.
    • Next.js + Express, PostgreSQL, AWS S3, deployed to Render and Vercel from GitLab. Live with ~10 organizers and thousands of tickets sold.
    • Diagnosed a production API failure across the frontend/backend boundary — a frontend request loop was tripping the rate limiter and getting the endpoint blocked — and fixed the request pattern rather than only lifting the block.
  4. Dec 2023 — May 2024

    Frontend Developer

    OnStream · Smart-TV movie platform
    • Movie scheduling and playback platform for smart TVs.
    • Built the entire Angular admin dashboard — uploading content and programming what airs on each channel and when.
  5. Mar 2021 — Feb 2022

    Frontend Developer

    Burq (via 4TWIGGERS) · Delivery app
    • Customer-facing app for a delivery company.
    • Owned the React frontend — data fetching, filtering, maps, and core UI.
  6. Jun 2019 — Sep 2022 · Where it started, age 15

    Frontend Developer

    4TWIGGERS · Software studio · Tbilisi, Georgia
    • Built three production apps: Pravis Testebi (driver's-license exam prep, React Native), Spotlight (maps app with a preference-learning recommendation engine), and RealRemote (remote-jobs platform shipped as web + mobile via React Native Web).
    • Built D3.js data visualizations and casino-data integration for SlotStats, a gambling-analytics product; plus smaller mobile apps.
Skills · 03

My stack.

The tools I reach for day-to-day.

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptSQL

Frontend

ReactReact NativeNext.jsAngularExpo

Backend

Node.jsExpress.jsNestJSREST APIsAuth

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLSupabaseMongoDBFirebasePayload CMS

Testing

PlaywrightJestVitest

CI/CD & Deployment

GitLab CI/CDDockerVercelRenderAWS S3Cloudflare R2

Infrastructure— built from scratch for university coursework

AWS EC2nginxLoad balancingCloudFrontRDS MySQLMemcachedLinux (Ubuntu)

Monitoring & Analytics

SentryMixpanelPostHog

Tools

GitNutrient SDK (PSPDFKit)PostmanXcodeAndroid Studio

CS Foundations— Kutaisi International University coursework

Algorithms & Data StructuresOperating Systems & Systems ProgrammingComputer Organization & ArchitectureTheory of ComputationDatabasesSoftware EngineeringDevOps EngineeringBackend Programming with JavaScriptScripting LanguagesAI-Powered ApplicationsDiscrete StructuresLinear Algebra
How I ship · 04

After the merge.

Writing the code is half of it. This is the other half.

Version control

GitLab, with a merge-request workflow. Nothing reaches main without review and a green pipeline behind it.

GitLabMerge requestsGit

CI

Pipelines I wrote myself: lint, typecheck and tests on every merge request, plus dependency scanning and secret detection. I used to find those problems at deploy time, which is too late.

GitLab CI/CDPlaywrightJestVitest

Deployment

Separate dev and prod environments, Docker container builds, and automatic deploys from Git to Vercel and Render on merge.

DockerVercelRenderdev / prod

When it breaks

The sTickets API started failing in production. I checked whether the request was even leaving the frontend before touching the backend — isolating which side of the boundary had actually broken — then looked at what Render was returning. A frontend request loop was firing enough calls to trip the rate limiter, which blocked the endpoint. I unblocked it and fixed the request pattern that caused it, instead of leaving the limiter switched off.

Production debuggingRate limitingVercelRender
Projects · 05

Some things I’ve built.

Products I built and shipped — most of them on my own.

Education · 06

Theory and practice, side by side.

A scholarship-funded CS degree built on Georgia's strongest math-and-physics foundation — and where I built infrastructure from scratch.

Graduated 2026B.Sc. Computer Science

Kutaisi International University

B.Sc. Computer Science · Kutaisi, Georgia

A rigorous CS foundation built alongside the day job — algorithms and data structures, software engineering, operating systems and systems programming, computer architecture, databases and theory of computation, taught in English.

For the DevOps and Software Engineering practical courses I set up and ran a complete AWS deployment stack from scratch — EC2 on Ubuntu, nginx as reverse proxy, a load balancer, CloudFront, RDS MySQL, Memcached and Docker — in use by students and faculty across the year.

100% tuition scholarship — earned via national exam results.
Coursework
Algorithms & Data StructuresOperating Systems & Systems ProgrammingComputer Organization & ArchitectureTheory of ComputationDatabasesSoftware Engineering (theory + practical)DevOps EngineeringBackend Programming with JavaScriptScripting LanguagesAI-Powered ApplicationsProduct Development for Software EngineersDiscrete StructuresDiscrete ProbabilityLinear AlgebraAnalysis for Informatics
★ National exam high achieverGraduated 2022

Komarovi School Pansion

High School Diploma · Tbilisi, Georgia

Specialization in Mathematics & Physicsat Komarovi — widely regarded as the most prestigious boarding school in Georgia, and the country's strongest pipeline into competitive STEM programs.

National-exam results that translated directly into a full university scholarship.
Contact · 07

Want to work together?

I'm open to remote full-stack roles and freelance work. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

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Email
lukakhimshiashvili4@gmail.com
Phone
(+995) 591 193 540
GitHub
github.com/lukakh1
Location
Tbilisi, Georgia · UTC+4