Nika Shelia
Full-stack and AI engineer who designs and builds products from 0 to 1, and takes them all the way to launch instead of stopping in the middle. Specializing in agentic workflow development, design engineering, scraping, video and audio streaming, and mobile apps.
Experience
Typeform
2026 – NowAgentic AI & Product Engineer
- Built an LLM pipeline in Go (LiteLLM routing to Claude and OpenAI) that writes a complete CRM setup from a form's questions and responses.
- Replaced hand-built setup with one-click activation, taking Contacts activation from 11% to 40% (3.6×).
- Built the eval stack behind it, with shadow dry-runs, PM-calibrated LLM judges in Arize, and canary and A/B releases. Both of Typeform's AI teams now use it.
Emsteel
2025Tech Lead, RAG & Multi-Agent AI
- Led a private AI assistant over 3,000+ policy documents, deployed entirely inside Azure and used by ~1,000 people a month.
- Designed a multi-agent pipeline (classifier, query-rewriting and re-ranking agents) on LlamaIndex and Azure AI Search.
- Raised faithfulness from 0.7 to 0.9 with Ragas and LLM-as-judge evals, and brought the assistant into Microsoft Teams.
Lantern
2024AI Document & Excel Products
- Sole engineer and designer of Lantern's first enterprise product, an AI Excel add-in on Microsoft AppSource (React, Office.js).
- Built custom Excel formulas that pull, chart and calculate AI-extracted portfolio KPIs. Lantern's first 3 enterprise customers adopted it.
- Worked on the PDF review editor that highlights extracted KPIs in place so analysts can check them (Next.js, Python).
LSEG
2023Full Stack Engineer
- Adapted Cloud Carbon Footprint to run privately inside LSEG, showing which services drive cloud cost and emissions.
- Automated CI/CD and multi-cloud deployment, with event-driven processing on AWS SQS and Lambda.
- Split a legacy .NET SOAP monolith behind the bonds dashboards into Node.js microservices.
Findmypast
2022Authorization Platform
- Built REST and GraphQL microservices for a new Auth0-based authorization platform (Node.js, Elixir, Kafka, Kubernetes).
- Migrated legacy .NET services and MySQL data onto the new platform.
- Improved observability with Prometheus and Grafana.
Hyperquery
2021 – 2022Founding Engineer
- Led frontend development of the company's MVP.
- That MVP helped Hyperquery raise a $3.4M seed round.
- Built features across the stack in React, Python and PostgreSQL.
Senior Frontend Developer
- Migrated an internal credit-scoring application from JavaScript to TypeScript.
- Found and fixed performance bottlenecks with Chrome DevTools profiling.
- Delivered credit-score grading features with business analysts.
myvideo.ge
2018 – 2021Lead Front-end Engineer
- Rebuilt tv.myvideo.ge in React and Node.js for millions of monthly viewers.
- Built an adaptive live-streaming player on Shaka Player for Smart TVs and the web, cutting ad load time by 50%.
- Shipped an Electron desktop app with offline viewing, plus test and deploy pipelines for TV, web and desktop.
Projects
Founder · 2023 – 2026Built from 0 to 1 on my own, from design to scale.Voice interviews
Screening
Real-time voice interviews that screen candidates and score every answer. 100,000+ voice sessions run in 160+ countries.
- greetai.co/learnPush gas down hard, and the rocketis pushed up.
Rocket engines · 3 of 8
What pushes the rocket up?
- Air under the fins
- Exhaust pushed down
- The launch pad
Listening for your answer
AI lessons
Learning
An AI teacher that explains any topic on a whiteboard, out loud, then checks you got it with quizzes, code challenges and speaking practice.
Chrome extensionLearn with
Puts a second subtitle line under Netflix. Replay a line, say it back and get scored on your pronunciation.
Social app for protesters
WAL Social
A Georgian social network that only takes posts from protest sites, and only from phones, so bots can't flood it. Reached #10 in Social on the App Store within hours, gained 1,000+ users, went viral on Instagram and was covered by Georgian media.
