1Work
Data Analysis Laboratory (DAL)
AI Engineer · 08/2025 – now · Tbilisi, Georgia (remote)
Building Georgian text-to-speech from the ground up: the data, the research and the model.
- Built an end-to-end Georgian speech data pipeline (segmentation, transcription, labeling) for TTS training.
- Conducted R&D on low-resource speech synthesis tailored to Georgian phonetics and prosody.
- Actively developing a resource-efficient Georgian TTS model optimized for low compute and memory environments.
Debugium
CEO & Co-founder · 01/2026 – now · Tbilisi, Georgia
Co-founded a platform that stress-tests companies' AI chatbots against top human-agent performance. Leading product, strategy and all engineering as CEO/CTO.
- Serve as CEO/CTO leading product, strategy, and all engineering.
- Designed and built the full-stack platform to stress-test companies' AI chatbots against top human-agent performance.
- Developing automated evaluation and benchmarking pipelines for response quality, accuracy, and safety.
- Won the Imereti regional grant (25,000 GEL).
- Accepted into the Plug and Play startup accelerator (2026), with access to 500+ corporate partners.
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DFKI (German Research Center for AI)
Invited Researcher · 11/2026 – 11/2027 · Saarbrücken, Germany
Research stay at DFKI, working on LLM-based social interactive agents in the research projects MARSS and CLICK.
- Joins the research projects MARSS and CLICK (funded by the German research ministry, BMFTR).
- Develops social interactive agents using large language models.
- Supervised by Dr. Dimitra Tsovaltzi.
2Projects
Fraudly
2026 · Fraud prevention · Voice AI · LLM agents
An AI honeypot that poses as an elderly victim to phone scammers, in chat and on live voice calls. It freezes the mule accounts they dictate, and keeps them talking to burn through more.
- Built a bilingual (Georgian/English) real-time voice agent over WebRTC with streaming STT, LLM and TTS, and speculative reply generation to keep the response gap short.
- Wrote a shared fraud core that extracts account numbers and IBANs from chat and speech, including Georgian number words and checksum repair. It freezes them at a mock bank in real time and feeds the result back to the persona.
- Designed detailed persona sheets (Harold, 82, a widowed American teacher in Tbilisi) and an evaluation harness with a scripted scammer simulator.
▶ Fraudly demo (2:27)
Debugium
GITA Innovation Grants for Regions, Imereti · 2026 · LLM evaluation · Chatbot testing · Personas
A testing platform that stress-tests Georgian e-commerce chatbots with AI personas, such as a grandmother dictating into her phone or a blind accountant on a screen reader, and reports where and why each one struggled.
- Built the full-stack platform: scenario generation, persona casting, live conversation view and an AI-assisted evaluation report with a human final verdict.
- Designed a persona engine where detailed profiles control typing (Georgian, Latin transliteration, typos), reading habits, patience and a private think-aloud channel.
- Connects to any HTTP/JSON chat API or widget; tested against six live Georgian retail bots.
Mira AI
Beyond Chat AI Hackathon 2025 · 2025 · EdTech · Georgian · Voice AI
A Georgian-language AI physics tutor with a talking 3D teacher. Students ask questions by chat, the teacher answers aloud with lip-synced speech, and an interactive circuit lab lets them try Ohm's law themselves.
- Built a 3D teacher avatar (React Three Fiber) that speaks Georgian answers with synthesized voice and Rhubarb lip-sync, with idle and talking animations.
- Claude on Amazon Bedrock answers in structured form: spoken narration, key points, formulas and a hands-on task.
- Interactive circuit lab: pick the right resistor to light an LED without burning it, with the teacher reacting to what happens.
- Won first place and 10,000 GEL.
AgroVoice
AgroHacks 2026 · 2026 · AgriTech · Georgian · Voice AI
A farm-management assistant for Georgian farmers. They send voice notes or text in Georgian; it transcribes them, logs the work, inputs, harvests and sales, and answers questions about the farm from its own data.
- Pipeline from voice note to answer: Amazon Transcribe (Georgian), intent classification, structured record extraction with Claude tool use, and a Georgian acknowledgment that farmers can correct by talking.
- Natural-language questions are turned into guarded read-only SQL and answered from the farmer's own records, with profit-and-loss views.
- Adds weather alerts (frost, rain), satellite vegetation indices and a crop advisor; runs on AWS (ECS, SQS, RDS).
- Won first place and 10,000 GEL.
3Competitions
Beyond Chat AI Hackathon
1st place · 2025
First place and 10,000 GEL for Mira AI, the Georgian AI physics tutor. Organised by Startup Buro.
AgroHacks
1st place · 2026
First place and 10,000 GEL for AgroVoice, the Georgian voice assistant for farmers. Organised by Georgia's Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA).
GITA Innovation Grants for Regions (Imereti)
Regional grant · 2026
Won a regional innovation grant of 25,000 GEL for Debugium. Organised by Georgia's Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA).
Leonardo da Vinci Innovations Competition
1st place · 2018
First place and 5,000 GEL as a C++ developer. Organised by the Ministry of Education of Georgia.
Millennium Innovations Award
1st place · 2019
First place as a C++ developer; the prize was a trip to a NASA space centre university. Organised by the Millennium Innovations Fund Georgia.
Niko Nikoladze Chatbot Hackathon
1st place · 2021
First place and 2,500 GEL as chatbot developer. Organised by GEPRA.
4About
- Education
- BSc Computer Science · Kutaisi International University · expected 2027
- Languages
- Georgian (native) · English (C1, TOEFL)
- Programming
- Python · Java · C++ · JavaScript
- Machine learning
- PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn · Hugging Face Transformers · Pandas · NumPy · NLTK
- Areas
- Speech synthesis · LLM agents · AI evaluation · Full-stack
- Exchange
- FLEX exchange year in the USA, 2021–2022 (U.S. Department of State scholarship, ~2% acceptance rate)
- Training
- Machine Learning Bootcamp, Georgia's Innovation and Technology Agency, 2025
KIUInnovate startup summer school, 2025
Plug and Play startup accelerator, 2026 - Teaching
- Student teaching assistant, Java course, Kutaisi International University, 2022–2023
