04 / PIPELINE
Tornike Kalandadze
Automation & Platform Engineer
Event pipelines · Reliability · Replay · Human gates
Profile
Automation engineer who treats side effects, failure recovery, and auditability as first-class design problems. My work spans production AI-generation workflows and independent systems prototypes: append-only journals, dead-letter recovery, cross-language RPC, native Windows event collection, backpressure, deterministic replay, and human approval gates.
Experience
Lead Developer & Partner
AI Academy
Apr 2026–Present
Launched product · four-person team
- Designed a three-stage syllabus-to-course pipeline—parse, expand, generate—with contextual carry-over, schema validation, progress tracking, and a stop path that prevents orphaned token spend.
- Built auditable usage and cost tracking, a second-model review gate, automated enrollment/payment reconciliation, and admin workflows around the pipeline.
- Lead architecture, review, deployment, and product delivery across the team.
Independent Systems Engineer
Automation prototypes
2026
Event systems, distributed runtimes, local automation
- Built Relay, a self-hosted event engine with an append-only journal, backpressure, dead-letter recovery, and side-effect-free time-travel replay.
- Built Polyglot Bridge, a zero-dependency C#/Java/Rust RPC mesh whose protocol is enforced byte-for-byte by a Python conformance suite.
- Built Sentinel, a local Windows event pipeline that combines native watchers, SQLite, IsolationForest scoring, and a human decision gate.
Freelance Software Engineer
Independent client work
2019–Present
Remote product delivery
- Automate product workflows and integrations inside client systems while keeping state explicit, failures inspectable, and irreversible actions gated.
Selected engineering work
Relay
Independent prototype
Laptop-scale event engine for files, cron, HTTP, and RSS with a visual pipeline editor and immutable journal.
- Historical events can be replayed through edited YAML with sinks stubbed and network untouched.
- Backpressure blocks producers instead of dropping data; dead-letter replay resumes at the exact failed node without repeating earlier side effects.
Java 21 · Spring Boot · React · Redis · JSONL
Polyglot Bridge
Independent prototype
Zero-dependency RPC mesh: C# control surface, Java scheduler, and Rust workers share a hand-designed binary protocol.
- Python vectors enforce byte-identical conformance across three implementations; correlation IDs trace every request.
- Heartbeats reroute work after a worker dies; four workers reached approximately 467 image tiles/second.
C# · Java 21 · Rust · TCP/UDP · Python
Sentinel
Independent prototype
Local Windows privacy watchdog that turns OS events into explainable anomaly alerts without cloud or administrator rights.
- ReadDirectoryChangesW, WMI, and clipboard metadata feed SQLite and optional Python IsolationForest scoring.
- Anomalies at the configured threshold wait for human review; missing Python degrades to deterministic C# rules.
C#/.NET 8 · WPF · Python · SQLite · Windows APIs