Giga (Grigoli) Vashakidze

About Me

I am a professional with about 3 years of work experience in Software Engineering. I am a self-starter with a strong competency in data structures and algorithms. I develop solutions around Software Release Management, Configuration Management, and CI/CD. I release the software updates to the most trafficked sites without users noticing a glitch in service. Skilled in Python, C#, Java, and Linux-Shell Scripting.

Python
Java
C#
C/C++
Data Structures
Algorithms
OOP
Problem Solving
MATLAB
HTML
CSS
ASP .NET
SQL
React
AWS
Git/TFS
Leadership
Teamwork

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

San Diego State University

Aug 2015 - May 2019

San Diego, CA

Experience

Software Engineer II

Mitchell International

Mar 2021 - Present

San Diego, CA

Creating innovative solutions around software configuration management utilizing cloud services on Amazon Web Services. Tech stack includes Python, C#, Shell Scripting.
Researching and introducing new changes that reduce time and issues in the software delivery process.
Leading the development of several software projects.

Software Engineer I

Mitchell International

Aug 2019 - Mar 2021

San Diego, CA

Developing solutions around software release automation, dependency management, and continuous integration.
Leading a team of 10 config engineers in monthly rotation to release software without affecting customers.

Software Engineer Intern

Mitchell International

May 2018 - Aug 2018

San Diego, CA

Eliminated human error and significantly cut time by 98% from a few hours to one minute by designing and implementing a windows application in C# that automated code changes in TFS.
Improved performance of the main component by creating Jmeter load test that was automatically running daily to generate data analysis in Tableau reports identifying slow performing code snippets. As a result, it improved load speed by 80% and maintained the performance of the product.
Enhanced customer satisfaction by delivering new features in C# and Java with best practices.
Increased resiliency of CI/CD pipeline by creating unit and integration testing.

Teaching Assistant - Volunteer

San Diego State University

Sep 2017 - Dec 2017

San Diego, CA

Increased students’ engagement, to follow the course and stay on track by working as a teaching assistant position that is usually for graduate students, assisted 150+ students within 4 months in the class of programming in C.
Improved students’ understanding of mistakes in their exams and assignments by reviewing and giving feedback on the methods they used that resulted in about 70% fewer same type errors in future works.
Improved students’ debugging skills of C programs that are related to functions, data structures, etc.

Co-Author & Software Engineer

Persomedic

May 2017 - Aug 2017

Tbilisi, Georgia

Created an effective communication channel between doctors and patients. The first medical app that uses AI to deliver primary care better, faster, and cheaper.
Developed an Android/IOS mobile application utilizing chatbot Dialogflow and Machine Learning using a Word2Vec model to make text analysis to accurately predict diagnosis.
Designed and improved the ML model.

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Get In Touch

Email

gigavashak@gmail.com

Location

Palo Alto, CA, United States