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# Petre Chkonia

contact@petrechkonia.com · petrechkonia.com · Tbilisi, Georgia

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### Work Experience

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## Android Developer

TBC · Tbilisi, Georgia (Hybrid)

Jul 2025 – Apr 2026
  • Member of the Currency Transfers in Digital team, developing and maintaining features for Retail and Business mobile banking apps in an Agile environment
  • Developed a highly anticipated international transfers feature for the retail mobile app, delivering a multi-page solution with complex business logic and a seamless user experience
  • Collaborated with the Open Banking team to replace a webview-based feature with a fully native implementation, improving performance and user experience
  • Supported the Domestic Transfers team by developing the recipient selection page and contributing to the unified transfers flow, including robust error handling and a status-page widget enabling users to save and trust recipients
  • Contributed as part of the team that achieved Continuous Deployment and High Availability certification (2025)
  • Improved the overall technical health of the codebase by migrating deprecated design system components, increasing test coverage, and performing targeted refactoring
KotlinAndroid DevelopmentAgile

## Junior Civil Engineer

Domus Fabrilis · Bakhvi, Georgia

Jun 2024 – Sep 2024
  • Worked on one of the most challenging construction projects in Georgia, due to the rugged, remote wilderness terrain
  • Represented the contractor side of a 3-hydropower-plant project, 2 of which fell under the contractor's scope of responsibility
  • One of only two engineers on the contractor's team
  • Introduced an efficient block-casting strategy, later used to build the on-site concrete factory
  • Conducted steel shed surveying and earthwork calculations to level the site surface using Civil 3D
  • Performed excavation and backfill calculations for penstock works in Civil 3D and prepared AIPs
  • Contributed to establishing conventions and templates for construction and earthwork drawings, as well as Excel-based documentation
  • Departed shortly after initial concrete works began, to pursue a newfound interest in programming
Civil3DSurveyingEarthworks

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### Education

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## Certification — SQL Server - Querying

TBC IT Academy · Tbilisi, Georgiai (Remote)

Sep 2025 – Oct 2025
  • Offered to employees during my Android Developer role at TBC as part of internal professional development
  • Built on limited prior experience with SQLite; the course served as a strong introduction to SQL and reshaped my understanding of how databases actually work
  • Course material and sample databases were modeled around banking use cases, adding valuable domain-specific context since TBC is a banking company

## Certification — Android Development

TBC IT Academy · Tbilisi, Georgia (Hybrid)

Nov 2024 – Jun 2025
  • Began learning iOS development as an introduction to programming after leaving the hydropower plant role in Bakhvi and taking an interest in software development
  • Selected from over 700 applicants: only 28 were accepted, 18 completed the program, and 5 were hired by TBC
  • During the bootcamp, broke an ankle and dislocated a collarbone in a skiing accident; the months of recovery period, spent largely bedridden, provided time to focus on studying
  • Built a salary calculator handling complex enterprise scenarios as a midterm project
  • Developed a fitness-focused social media app featuring an AI assistant as a personal fitness advisor for the final project
  • Presented final projects live to an audience that included TBC's Android chapter leads and Frontend chapter area lead
  • Hired by TBC after two months of interviews and exams, alongside four other students

## Bachelor of Science — Construction Engineering

Agricultural Univeristy of Georgia · Tbilisi, Georgia

Sep 2021 – Feb 2024
  • Studied fundamentals of mechanics and related core engineering subjects
  • Completed three drawing courses: two semesters of hand drafting followed by one semester in AutoCAD
  • Took a two-year academic gap starting February 2024 to work as a Junior Civil Engineer at a hydropower plant beginning April 2024
  • Transferred to Georgian Technical University in 2026

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### Skills

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Languages

KotlinJavaSwiftSQLHTMLCSSBash

Frameworks & Libraries

Android SDKSpring BootKotlin MultiplatformSpriteKitAstroMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQL

Tools

Android StudioIntelliJ IDEAXcodeCivil3DAutoCADExcel