Personal details

Guga K. - Remote mobile app developer

Guga K.

Based in: 🇬🇪 Georgia
Timezone: Tbilisi (UTC+4)

Summary

Mobile engineer with 8 years of experience, 6 years in React Native. Also, with a background in native Android, iOS, web, and backend development. Involved in projects as a lead programmer, I perceive the digital space creatively but prioritize results first. Two of my recent apps developed for startups successfully raised funding, with the majority of users accessing the platform through the mobile app, which served as the main interface to the product. I am dedicated to hard work, love teamwork, and thrive on building something together to deliver exceptional results

Work Experience

Software engineer / Web-app engineer / Co-founder
Symbols | Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
HTML/CSS
Git
DOM
npm
React
JavaScript
Developer Tools
Babel
Yarn
Design Systems

Symbols is a platform for building and maintaining design-system and uikit. It heavily relies on a custom-built CSS framework called scratch and a DOM rendering framework called DOMQL, both of which were developed from scratch in Symbols.

My contributions to Symbols overall include:

  • Hackernews, an open-source web app built with Symbols and DOMQL, was successfully demonstrated in Y Combinator's application. It served as an example/documentation showcasing the successful usage of Symbol's provided toolkits. Moreover, it functions as an onboarding tool for new engineers joining the team.
  • Developing a template-like engine to convert DOMQL trees into a more preferred content tree format, such as Markdown or EditorJS, and various other X tree formats.
  • Implementing a Playground and Fiddle UI component modules for the platform, which enables developers to quickly preview XYZ.
  • FileExplorer module to the platform, allowing for easy exploration, editing, and creation of project files.
  • Creating and fixing components for Symbols' core UI kit.
  • Reported DOMQL bugs/improvements
  • Contributed to Symbols' documentation and reported bugs for the CSS framework, DOM rendering framework, platform, and other tools built in Symbols
Mobile developer / Lead / Cross platform app developer / Co-founder
Kikliko (now Klipy) | Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Java
Gradle
CocoaPods
Objective-C
React Native
  • Developed/Maintained Android/iOS applications (React-native without expo)
  • iMessage integration (Objective-C)
  • Maintained/Tweaked 3rd party native packages (Java, Obj-C)
  • Ownership of the mobile app
  • Mentored junior developers

Tech Stack:

  • React-native
  • Mobx
  • Xstate
  • Firebase: notifications/analytics/crashlytics
  • React-navigation/Rn-screens
  • React-native-reanimated
  • Formik

Achievements:

  • Raised funding, totaling 160k USD.
  • Achieved a 99.85% crash-free rate for users on iOS/Android.
  • Earned a 4.6 rating on the Play Store and a 5.0 rating on the App Store.

The product is still active, and the mobile apps are available on the App Store and Google Play Store; it is now named Klipy.