Senior engineer and tech lead with 16+ years building production systems
and, more recently, AI-native products.
George Chkhvirkia
Senior Software Engineer
Tbilisi, Georgia
About
Highlights
High-Availability Production Systems
Design and ship production systems built for uptime and throughput —
queueing, batching, caching and fault-tolerant background processing at scale.
Database Design & Performance
PostgreSQL schema design, indexing and query optimization;
turned a 7-hour job into minutes and cut RAM from 8GB to 2GB (4x throughput).
Production AI Systems
Architect high-availability AI agents for customer support and automation —
multi-channel, memory-backed, with graceful fallbacks and evaluation in production.
Search, Retrieval & AI Memory
Build RAG and retrieval pipelines — knowledge bases, embeddings,
hybrid search and persistent agent memory over large user corpora.
Scalable API & Systems Architecture
Modular, extensible APIs and integrations with third-party platforms,
built to stay maintainable as teams and load grow.
Experience
Senior Product & Software Engineer @
Momntum.ai
03 / 2025 - 04 / 2026
Built an AI assistant with persistent memory, third-party integrations,
and multiple communication channels including WhatsApp, ElevenLabs voice,
Twilio calls, and an embeddable widget.
Designed and managed the data relationships between customers, businesses,
and products to power analytics for marketing and outbound campaigns.
Co-Founder, Senior Product & AI Engineer @
Shelfy
2025 / -
Implemented the knowledge base and memory layer for AI agents,
enabling them to manage large user knowledge base resources at scale.
Co-Founder, Tech Lead, Ai Engineer @
Resoly.ai
2023 / 2024
Ai-enhanced web resource organizer and research tool.
Senior Backend Developer + React Developer @
BehaveHealth Corp.
2022 / 2025
Rejoined the company to lead the development of the Best ALL-IN-ONE software for behavioral health providers.
Full Stack Developer @
One Check
2020 / 2021
Developed a platform to facilitate the booking and management of COVID-19 tests.
Full Stack Developer @
Wallet Card
2018 / 2021
Developed a project to help construction companies manage certifications:
- Transformed the application into a Single Page App using Vue.js and Rails API.
Lead Back-End Developer @
Eden
2018
Connects Real estate agents with buyers.
- Developed latest version of Rails API, with database with 1M+ records.
- Improved API response speed by adding efficient serializers, improved db structure.
Lead Back-End + React Developer @
BehaveHealth
2016 / 2018
Helps medical facilities to manage patient and employee info.
- Developed Rails API with multitenant database architecture.
- Complex employee permission system.
- Background processing for payments and notifications.
- First version of project's mobile Web-App is also built by me with ReactJS.
CTO @
Terminal
2016 / 2017
Developed a feature-rich, highly customized Rails-based CRM for a chain of local co-working spaces:
- Implemented a custom Bootstrap theme for a tailored user experience.
- Built a sophisticated employee management system to handle complex workflows.
- Integrated tools for detailed progress analysis and performance tracking.
Rails Developer @
Rever.Co
2015 - 2016
Refactored a large, legacy codebase. Within a few months, our team achieved the following:
- Transformed the architecture into a modular, maintainable structure.
- Thoroughly documented and tested the code to ensure long-term stability and ease of future development.
Competitions & Challenges
HackTbilisi 2015 By UniHack
12 / 2015
Student Hackathon. Won 3rd place with project 'Bundle'
StartupWeekend By Liberty Bank Georgia
12 / 2013
Personal Startup. Restaurant search / online ordering website.
3rd Place in Imagine Cup Georgia By Microsoft
02 / 2012 - 05 / 2012
Website / Windows Phone App. Helps users to find / clean and monitor garbage cleaning.
Details & Contacts
Tech Stack
- Python
- TypeScript / JavaScript
- React / React Native / Vue
- Ruby / Rails
- Elixir
- Postgres / MySQL
AI Tools & Workflows
- Claude Code (daily)
- LLM fine-tuning (T5, GPT-2)
- Prompt design, versioning & evaluation
- Open-source LLMs (Qwen, DeepSeek, NVIDIA Nemotron) via OpenRouter & similar
- AI memory / knowledge base systems
- Voice & messaging agents (ElevenLabs, Twilio, WhatsApp)
Current Interests
- AI / LLM development & evaluation
- Engineering taste in AI-assisted workflows
- System Design