Tbilisi
Philadelphia
San Jose
I grew up reselling electronics and trading virtual items to make money in a country where the minimum wage didn't leave many options. That taught me early on to focus on what actually works over what's supposed to work. I teach myself whatever the situation needs — trading, soldering, a new language, a framework I've never touched — and I figure it out fast enough to be useful. I care about output: what gets built, what ships, what's useful to people. At work I've automated processes nobody asked me to fix, built tracking systems that didn't exist before, and at hackathons I've dragged my team out of the building to talk to real users instead of guessing. I pick up what I need, adapt to whatever team or environment I'm in, and I'd rather ship something good than gatekeep how it was made.