Ilia Gogotchuri
Maintainer at Thunderstock
Tbilisi, Georgia
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Top SchoolIlia Gogotchuri is a software engineer and open-source maintainer based in Tbilisi with 7–8 years of experience building and scaling reliable systems. Currently a core maintainer of OpenTofu and a senior engineer at Thunderstock, he combines hands-on engineering with project stewardship across cloud and infrastructure tooling. Previously he led engineering teams at Kernel and worked as a consulting software architect, demonstrating fluency from test automation to system design. His open-source contributions include improving test coverage and reliability for the widely used pygame library, reflecting a practical attention to quality and reproducible behavior. Trained in Mathematics and Computer Software Engineering, he brings a methodical, test-driven approach to complex backend and developer-facing projects.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering at Free University of Tbilisi
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Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
game-development10
pygame10
python10
test-automation10
sdl9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pygame/pygame
May 2020 - Jun 2020
🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Ilia focused on implementing and refining unit tests for the `pygame` library's time module. They added tests for `time.delay()`, `time.wait()`, and `time.get_ticks()`, ensuring correct behavior and validating return types. Furthermore, they created helper methods to avoid code duplication and improved the tests by adjusting error margins and adding type error assertions. The commits demonstrate a strong focus on testing the library's functionality and ensuring its reliability.
openglprogramming-languagepygamepythonsdl
Gogotchuri/gexelizer
Mar 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:22 releases, 46 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
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