# George Kontridze

> Engineering @ Town

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/georgekontridze

Passionate about building and running reliable and performant large-scale software systems with highly enjoyable user and developer experiences.

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ Town
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Basis
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Plaid
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Technical Lead on Observability
{logs, metrics, traces, errors/exceptions, (runtime - CPU/memory) profiles} X {emission, transport, ingestion, processing, storage, querying, visualization, alerting}

### Software Engineer @ Plaid
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Infrastructure revamp:
- Introduced Terraform & Atlantis to enable automatic workflows for infrastructure management and drove adoption across the org
- Prototyped initial Kubernetes stack that became the foundation for how it’s run at Plaid today
- Drove first and most impactful Kubernetes use cases to demonstrate potential
- Started migration of all Plaid workloads from ECS to Kubernetes
- Was on a team of 3 engineers prototyping an internal self-serve application platform
- Various utilities & tooling work

### Site Reliability Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino, CA
Was responsible for vast global multimedia storage & serving infrastructure for AMP (Apple Media Products - Music/Movies/TV Shows/Podcasts/Books). Wrote tooling and libraries around internal APIs to enable SRE efficiency and automation.

### Production Engineer @ Bugsnag
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA
Supported, modernized, developed and owned the production infrastructure that underpinned an efficient and user-friendly real-time application error monitoring platform. Helped migrate entire infrastructure across cloud providers.

### Systems Engineer @ Quantcast
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA
Authored internal development tooling and built systems that supported a cross-platform (desktop/mobile/web) customer analytics and programmatic online advertising product line.

### DevOps Engineer @ Chartboost
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA
Helped develop and operate infrastructure for one of the largest online in-game advertising networks.

### DevOps Engineer @ Resonate
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Reston, VA
Developed and supported infrastructure for an online political advertising platform comprised of multiple data ingestion pipelines, a large multi-hundred terabyte data warehouse, and a customer dashboard application.

### Systems Engineer @ Verisign, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Reston, VA
Helped operate the global DNS resolution network for many of the top gTLDs (.com/.net/others) as well as A and J root nameservers.

### Consultant for Verisign, Inc. @ Celerity IT, LLC.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Provided on-site embedded consulting services for Systems/Operations Engineering; see above

### Software Engineering Intern @ Zaius, Inc. (formerly VoodooLunchbox)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Leesburg, VA
Learned how to build out a real-time streaming data analytics platform.

### Systems Administrator @ George Mason University School of Management
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Fairfax, VA
Managed the School's client and server computer systems.

### Technical Services Intern @ CICAT Networks
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Chantilly, VA
Provided technical support to clients with deployed CICAT equipment at their sites, built out internal company wiki


## Education
### George Mason University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/georgekontridze

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Last updated: 2026-04-05