M.Sc. Computer Science • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology • KIT

Karlsruhe, Germany - KIIS stipend funded. Specializations: Software Engineering and Human-Centered Machine Intelligence

Bachelor thesis supervised by Prof. Walter F. Tichy (KIT)

Research on LLM and RAG-based translation to Cypher query language. Advisor is pioneer of version control research and KIT's former dean

TUM coursework under Prof. Helmut Seidl

Java, OCaml, functional programming, and formal verification. Taught by TUM's former dean

B.Sc. Computer Science at Kutaisi International University

Kutaisi, Georgia - Computer Science major, Management minor, full study funding through scholarship and Rector's grant

Advanced C# Certification

Credential ID GR626000189DS • PeopleCert • New Horizons Bulgaria

KIU bachelor's study grant and academic stipend

70% study funding • 2,000 GEL stipend • Kutaisi International University

GPA 10/10 in high school

Golden Medal • Laptop • Georgian Ministry of Education

SCSA Python courses

Python, problem solving, algorithms and data structures

Quantum Academy

Computer architecture, C/C++, memory management, abstract algebra, and Arduino

Software Engineer • alfatraining Bildungszentrum GmbH • Karlsruhe, Germany

On-site at one of Germany's largest professional training providers. Part of the Monitoring and R&D teams, building OpenTelemetry for kiosks with IoT Central, kiosk auto-installer and auto-updater flows with GitLab CI/CD, RepoAnalyzer LOC metrics and statistics visualisation, AMS error collection, and automatic task creation inside internal project management tools

Co-founder and CTO • Hoppla • Tbilisi, Georgia

Carpooling platform built by founders from KIT, Sorbonne, Esade, and NYU. Leading development and maintenance of the Hoppla platform, mainly around Flutter app architecture, clean mobile code structure, backend integration, Supabase, MinIO, Hetzner hosting, OpenStreetMap, and routing path algorithms

Co-founder • Qbit • Georgia

CS50-inspired high-quality computer science lectures, among the first of this kind in Georgia. Co-authored a 1,200-page Theory of Computation slide book. 43,000 total views, 2,500 watch hours, and 2,700 followers

Creator • Shonia • Georgia

First Georgian game development YouTube channel focused on tutorials, with 2,500+ subscribers and 88 educational videos

Lead Unity Developer • Ailand • Lisbon, Portugal (Remote)

Multiplayer networking and gameplay systems, UI, menus, PlayFab, inventory, shop, character customization, and AI-NFT systems

Lecturer • GITA ICT Trainings • Ozurgeti Municipality, Georgia (Hybrid)

Taught Unity and C# game development to 12 schoolchildren

Unity 3D Developer • Happy Bat • Tbilisi, Georgia

Built hyper-casual games with C#, Unity, and gameplay systems

Student Teaching Assistant • Kutaisi International University • Georgia

Student Teaching Assistant for Fundamentals of Programming with Java and OOP

Game Developer • Biggest NFT Collections in Georgia

Worked on Shines NFT and Ryoko

Text2Cypher, a natural-language to Cypher query system for graph databases

Bachelor thesis with Prof. Walter F. Tichy - Python, Neo4j, RAG

AILAND, a Web3 shooter published on the Epic Games Store

Unity, C#, Web3

Earn to Die 3D, a Unity recreation with physics-based vehicle gameplay

Unity, C#, Blender

Handwritten Curve Detector for graph approximation with numerical methods

Python, numerical methods

Blottery, a decentralized lottery platform on Polygon

Solidity, Polygon, MetaMask

Audio Fractal Visualizer with shader-driven Mandelbrot and Mandelbulb scenes

C#, HLSL, shaders

Twitter Clone, a Flutter app with feeds, follows, likes, profiles, and media upload

Flutter, Riverpod, Appwrite

Duckietown autonomous driving, lane following and traffic signal detection

Python, computer vision, robotics

Won GITA grant

150,000 GEL • Hoppla • Georgia

Received proposed investment offer at Shark Tank Esade

40,000 EUR • Hoppla • Barcelona, Spain

Binance BNB Chain Q1 Hackathon second place with Playmask

10,000 USD • Team Ailand

Saga Multiverse Hackathon Ailand category winner with RetroCity

10,000 USD cash • Team Ailand

KIIS stipend awarded for master's studies

8,400 EUR • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

ZetaChain Omnichain Hackathon winner in Games/GameFi

3,000 USD in USDC on Ethereum • Team Ailand

NASA Space Apps local award for an OCR handwritten text converter

5,000 GEL • Team • Georgia

Social Impact Award winner with Hoppla

1,500 EUR • Hoppla • Mannheim, Germany

GDWC finalist with AILAND - the big reset

Web3 category • Game Development World Championship

GAU Startape second place for bike-sharing startup

500 GEL • Startup • Georgia

Won Visual Math Fest in Kutaisi

Visual Math Fest • Kutaisi, Georgia

Team Singapore guide at the European Physics Olympiad

EuPho 2024 • Kutaisi, Georgia

KIU Ambassador for BattleBots

Georgian Robotics Association • Robotics

Biology and EEG signal processing

Applied AI and signals

Guitar, piano, and composing

Creative practice, FL Studio

Georgian native, English fluent, Russian A2, German A1

Georgia • Germany

demetre.shonia.dev@gmail.com

Open to software, game, AI, education, and robotics collaborations