# Shota Kikozashvili

> Senior Software Engineer @ Mastercard

Location: Lake St Louis, Missouri, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shota

Full Stack Developer with over five years of experience building frontend and backend architectures for a variety of applications across their full product lifecycles.

I am constantly curious and excited to apply all that I learn toward building scalable solutions for real world problems via appropriately simple and maintainable code.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Mastercard
Jan 2024 – Present | O'Fallon, Missouri, United States
-Writing libraries in Rust leveraging cryptographic standards and tools

### Programmer Developer III @ Boehringer Ingelheim
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Connecticut, United States
-Developed internal libraries, APIs and CLI tools for the purposes of
filtering large datasets of customer healthcare data in compliance with
with laws guiding data residency.

-Developed performant utility libraries built in Rust for
complex filtering logic in memory.

-Architected and developed RESTful CRUD APIs built with Rust, axum and AWS allowing for efficient filtering of customer data based on requesting client permissions and predefined scopes.

Tech used:
-Rust
-Axum
-sqlx
-AWS Lambdas, Aurora, DynamoDB, Cognito

### Web Developer @ LiveView Technologies
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Orem, Utah, United States
-Built customer-facing and internal web applications and web services to monitor, administrate, and stream video from thousands of remote cameras and security systems.

-Develop newly designed video management system and administrative services UI pages using React/Typescript encompassing feature parity with deprecated legacy monolith.

-Port legacy PHP RESTful API functionality to Rust using Actix framework.

-Improve upon existing video management system API functionality to scale with simultaneous camera users.

-Architect and prototype various technical event models using Eventide and event sourced autonomous microservices.

Tech used:
- Javascript
- Typescript
- React
- Redux
- Rust
- GraphQL
- Ruby
- Web Assembly
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Material UI
- AWS

### Junior Web Developer @ BloomTech
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Remote
- Oversaw and provided guidance to a cross functional team of 10 entry level web developers, data scientists and UX designers across the full product lifecycle.

- Coordinated weekly with stakeholders to ensure that project features and functionality were met and exceeded expectations.

- Hosted daily group stand-up meetings to discuss and resolve blockers, bugs and evaluate project objectives.

Tech used:
- Javascript
- React
- Redux
- Node (Express)
- Python (Django)
- Rust
- PostgreSQL
- Bootstrap
- Sass
- Vercel

### Manufacturing Scientist @ Exact Diagnostics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
-Performed QC testing on manufactured builds of various controls to ensure compliance with QA's release specifications, utilizing qPCR and ddPCR.
-Formulated dilution schemes, prepared stock reagents and manufactured custom and catalog products of various viral controls.
-Labeled vials and product packaging as well as filling of actual vials.
-Up kept and maintained a clean laboratory setting, troubleshooting of lab instruments.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Biology, General
The College of New Jersey

### Full Stack Web Development
BloomTech


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shotakiko
- Website: https://shotakiko.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/ShotaKiko

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Last updated: 2026-03-22