02 / IN-HAND
Tornike Kalandadze
Senior Mobile Engineer
React Native · Expo · Android · Native integrations
Profile
Mobile engineer focused on the parts that make an app feel native: timing, permissions, background behavior, media, maps, notifications, resilient state, and clear fallbacks. I have delivered client mobile products, a signed Android voice-assistant release, and a sample-accurate cross-platform audio engine.
Experience
Mobile & Product Engineer
Independent client work
2019–Present
React Native, Expo, Android, responsive products
- Built client mobile products including Mia, an installable Georgian voice assistant, and Parkingio, a map-first parking finder with a complete discovery-to-routing journey.
- Own device-sensitive work end to end: permissions, background behavior, native notifications, local state, media playback, maps, fallbacks, release packaging, and responsive web companions.
Lead Engineer & Product Partner
Shansi
Jun 2026–Present
Publicly launched · built nearly solo
- Engineered a mobile-first, bilingual loyalty product spanning QR cashback, five games, mystery boxes, referrals, leaderboards, and real-time village raids.
- Connected the consumer journey to separate merchant and operator surfaces while the partnership completes banking approval.
Lead Developer & Partner
AI Academy
Apr 2026–Present
Four-person product team
- Lead delivery of a responsive Georgian/English learning platform so the storefront, lessons, quizzes, tutor, and daily review flow work across phone and desktop.
- Coordinate architecture, implementation, review, and deployment through launch and the current advertising rollout.
Selected engineering work
Mia
Client work · Android voice assistant
Georgian-first assistant with on-device wake word, hands-free follow-up, native alarms/timers, interpretation, and streaming speech.
- Shipped as a signed v1.1.0 APK with a production API host and five current device captures.
- Wake-word inference remains local; foreground speech streams quickly while background playback uses a complete-file fallback.
React Native · Notifee · ONNX · Reanimated · SSE
TTAB
Independent cross-platform app
Offline metronome that schedules against the audio hardware clock instead of unreliable JavaScript timers.
- Timing tests: 0.0000 ms interval deviation offline; 0 late/skipped clicks across 300 stressed desktop and 800+ real-iPhone clicks.
- Runs from one Expo codebase in Expo Go and on the web, with Skia visuals and audio-clock-anchored haptics.
Expo · React Native · Web Audio · Skia · Reanimated
Parkingio
Client work · Expo app
Map-first parking finder for Tbilisi covering discovery, comparison, spot details, and route handoff.
- Synchronizes 18 typed locations across map and list views, with foreground location, Haversine distance, directions, and polyline fallback.
- Public MVP uses explicit mock auth and simulated availability instead of presenting demo data as production infrastructure.
Expo 54 · Expo Router · React Native Maps · AsyncStorage