Irakli Ardia

Experience

1. Senior Backend Engineer

   Built payments infrastructure for ~10k customers and designed an event-driven job scheduler on MongoDB change streams. Led the move to Domain-Driven Design and wrote unit tests with Jest.

   NodeJSTypeScriptMongoDBRedisBullMQGoogle Pub SubGraphQLApollo ServerStripeAnsiblePinoJest

2. Senior Backend Engineer

   Built clinical REST APIs with role-based access control and audit logging. Led migration from Express to Nest.js and optimized a clinical API query from 6-7s to under 2s.

   TypeScriptNestJSExpressJSPostgreSQLTypeORMRedisRabbitMQSocket.IOCASLAWSJestSupertest

3. Backend Developer

   Built the backend for an insurance broker platform with 3-4k users and integrated Bank of Georgia's payment API. Split health, travel, and property flows into independent microservices.

   TypeScriptNestJSPostgreSQLRabbitMQAWS SQSPDFKitWinston

4. Backend Developer

   Built an async video transcoding pipeline for a VOD platform and backend APIs for VOD, e-commerce, and insurance clients. Set up Nginx and CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.

   TypeScriptExpressJSNestJSAdonisJsMySQLPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisNginxAWSPHPLaravel