Shota’s a mastermind behind Computer Science And Mathematics school at Free University of Tbilisi. Associated dean for about 8 years now. Lecturer and one of the most enthusiastic educators I’ve ever met. An outstanding software engineer and technology geek. Founder of startup Vitsi.ai, which aims to revolutionise the whole process of learning.

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
01:01 First Programming Language
02:35 Software Architecture and Design
05:42 When To Care About Scalability?
08:55 Software Development Process
13:31 Working At Mattermost
17:03 How Open Source Platforms Operate?
22:07 Benefits Of Open Source For The Company?
25:25 Becoming Dean Of Computer Science School
27:40 What Does Dean Do?
28:32 Motivation Behind Staying At University
30:02 Software Engineering VS Computer Science
32:39 Do We Need CS Degree To Become Software Engineers?
34:12 Computer Science State Of Art
37:14 Programming Paradigms, OOP, Decomposition
44:37 How University Education Works, Pros and Cons
51:54 Problems With Universities
57:00 Learning How To Learn
58:58 How Vitsi.ai Works?
01:04:33 How To Learn New Things?
01:05:58 Problems Vitsi.ai Solves
01:08:43 Content Creation In Vitsi.ai
01:10:47 Current State Of Vitsi.ai
01:13:40 Outro


🔗 CONNECT WITH US:
- Archil Sharashenidze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

- Shota Gvinepadze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shota-gvinepadze-3a9259112/

Meet John Crickett. John has been in software engineering for about 30 years now. His experience includes different seniority levels from Engineering Management as well as software architecture. 

He's the founder of the popular 'Coding Challenges' newsletter, boasting over 70,000 subscribers. Each week, John offers practical coding challenges to help software engineers enhance their skills through building real-world applications. 

He’s also known for being active on LinkedIn and sharing his enormous experience with the community.

EPISODE LINKS:
Coding Challenges: https://codingchallenges.fyi/

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
00:57 Software Engineering Evolution
10:40 Mastering Different Programming Languages
14:03 Learning By Doing
17:54 Coding Challenges Newsletter
24:58 LeetCode in Practice
25:58 How To Land First Job?
29:08 Power Of Networking
31:32 Building Personal Brand
35:40 Joy Of Criticism 
38:05 Conducting Interviews
43:20 Software Engineering Levels
45:19 “Engineering Manager or Hardcore Tech” Dilemma
49:58 Outro

🔗 CONNECT WITH US:
- Archil Sharashenidze on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

- John Crickett on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncrickett/

Meet Zaal and Rafo. 

Zaal's a remarkable entrepreneur and tech enthusiast. His co-founded AI startup, Pulsar AI, not only achieved a successful exit in the US market but also stands out as the first Georgian startup to have such a success story.

Rafo's an exceptional Machine Learning engineer with years of experience. Currently involved in data science masters degree. Besides learning, he’s deeply engaged in scientific research bringing unique expertise on the table.

OUTLINE:
00:00 - Intro
01:07 - Learnings From Entrepreneurship
08:06 - Definition of AI Startup
10:52 - Research in AI Startups
13:50 - ML Engineer doing research
15:12 - What are AI and Machine Learning?
23:02 - What is Model and Model Training?
25:47 - What are Language Models?
38:09 - How ChatGPT works?
46:38 - Building Georgian LLM
52:16 - Demo Announcement
53:32 - Main Challenges building Georgian LLM
56:25 - Other "competitors"
1:02:51 - Next Plans
1:08:08 - Georgian LLM Demo

🔗 CONNECT WITH US:
- Archil Sharashenidze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

- Zaal Gachechiladze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaalgachechiladze/

- Rafo Kalandadze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphael-kalandadze-ab9623142/

Meet Sandro and Dudu amazing software engineers and JS enthusiasts. Sandro’s been a software engineer for about 7 years. Ex-Googler, currently working at a small Series A startup, based in London. Dudu has been in the field of software engineering for around 5 years. He is currently working at a recently exited Silicon Valley-based startup.

EPISODE LINKS:
Javascript Runtime Blog: https://deno.com/blog/roll-your-own-javascript-runtime
Event Loop Doc: https://nodejs.org/en/guides/event-loop-timers-and-nexttick
Static Hermes: https://youtu.be/q-xKYA0EO-c?si=Lsr0o4_ad8b92cKV
React Fiber: https://github.com/acdlite/react-fiber-architecture

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:30 - What is a browser
3:38 - Domain Object Model - DOM
10:30 - Search Engine Internals
15:12 - Mobile vs Web browsers
18:42 - What is Javascript
23:58 - Typescript
29:47 - Javascript Execution, Runtime, Engines
37:50 - Event Loop
45:05 - Why React?
49:42 - React rendering, Virtual DOM
55:27 - Mistakes using React
1:02:00 - Project Complexity
1:04:58 - React Native
1:10:18 - Outro

🔗 CONNECT WITH US:
- Archil Sharashenidze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/
- Dudu Popkhadze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davit-popkhadze-a267a6199/
- Sandro Dolidze: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdolidze/

Merab Tato Kutalia is a Software Engineer specializing in Android. Google Developer Expert for Android and a fan of all things in software engineering. Tato maintains an active podcast about work ethics and career growth and writes tech blogs. He is a GDG organizer and speaker at international conferences (DroidCon, DevFest, OWASP). Community builder. Does 1:1 mentoring. Alongside his technological pursuits, he is an amateur cyclist and runner.

EPISODE LINKS:
Advent of Code: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2023/11/advent-of-code-2023-with-kotlin/?utm_campaign=aoc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube.com
The Making of a Manager: https://www.juliezhuo.com/book/manager.html

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - How Android App Runs
8:00 - Google Play
9:52 - Android Security
18:40 - Android Devices
25:20 - Android Development Tech Stack
28:00 - Kotlin Multiplatform
31:20 - Cross-Platform Development
39:40 - Becoming Android Engineer
44:45 - Side Hustling, Community
50:50 - Google Developer Expert
55:08 - DevFest
58:15 - Open Source
1:06:40 - Leading Teams

🔗 CONNECT WITH US:
- Archil Sharashenidze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/archil-sharashenidze/

- Merab Tato Kutalia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tatocaster/
- Merab Tato Kutalia on X(twitter): https://twitter.com/TatoKutalia

Giorgi Lekveishvili is a software engineer for over 15 years now. Spent almost a decade at google, engineering distributed and machine learning systems. Currently involved in academic activities at Free University of Tbilisi as an assistant professor.

EPISODE LINKS:
Paxos
Raft
MIT Distributed Systems Course
Supersonic
Pcloud