I build apps, games, and the systems behind them.
Nine years of Unity, the last few with React Native, and lately a lot of Swift. I'm CTO at Golden Fox, the studio behind Guns & Fury, and take on select projects through Toptal. On the side I'm building Breve, a study coach for language learners.
A study coach for language learners. It turns what you read into practice and plans each day around your classes. Patterns finds the mistakes you keep repeating in your own answers, and a grammar reference of nearly 2,000 constructions across 9 languages shows you the fix. No account and no Breve server: your cards stay in your iCloud. Coming soon to iPhone and iPad.
A Wild West shooter built on 1v1 quick-draw duels, with bounty hunts, zombie survival and deep character customization. Lead its engineering and wrote the studio framework it runs on.
A soccer card-collecting game with officially licensed players from 25+ leagues. Cards drew on live data from real matches, and squads faced off in competitive multiplayer.
Mini-games for livestreams: viewers on TikTok, Twitch and YouTube play along in real time from the chat. Built in React Native on a Node.js backend.
A sleep tracker that turned good nights into rewards and collectibles. Built its custom 3D rendering in Unity, tuned for mobile.
A 2D pixel-art beat-em-up. Rebuilt the legacy codebase and added the server backend, leaderboards, achievements and monetization.
irakli/ui-corner
Rounded and chamfered corners for Unity UI, drawn on the GPU with signed distance fields. Each corner is set independently, and it benchmarks 2.5–3.1× faster than the alternatives.
irakli/glimmer
Shimmer loading placeholders for Unity UI, animated entirely in a shader so they cost nothing on the CPU. Works with TextMeshPro.
irakli/marquee
Smooth scrolling marquee text for TextMeshPro, with configurable speed, direction and spacing. Installs as a UPM package.
irakli/algebras-unity
Adds AI translation to Unity's built-in localization: batch jobs, glossaries and context-aware translations from the Algebras platform.
2017 - Now · 3 roles
2024 - Present
Lead engineering at the studio behind Guns & Fury: the roadmap, the team, and the systems every title shares.
2019 - 2024
Led the artists and programmers shipping Golden Fox's mobile games.
2017 - 2019
Built the core mechanics of a 2D fighting game, plus its leaderboards, stats and achievements on a custom server backend.
2022 - Now · 5 roles
Jul 2026 - Present
Confidential · Client under NDA
Building real-time 3D for the web in React Three Fiber, with custom shaders, baked lighting, post-processing, and animation orchestrated in GSAP and Rive.
Apr - Jul 2026
Confidential · Client under NDA
Built an iOS and Android app in Expo and React Native, with Rive animation and device-adaptive haptics.
2026
Gamify Education · Client
Built an educational games platform spanning React Native, Unity, React and NestJS in one Turborepo monorepo.
Sep - Dec 2025
Confidential · Client under NDA
Built a mobile app in Unity from the first commit, structured as services wired with VContainer, commands routed through VitalRouter and state kept reactive with R3.
2022 - Present
Build Unity and React Native apps and games for Toptal clients.
2025 · NDA
2025
Led Unity development on an unannounced title.
2023 - 2025 · 2 roles
May - Sep 2025
Built cross-platform mobile apps in React Native and TypeScript, backed by an Express and PostgreSQL server.
2023 - 2025
Built the Unity front end that lets Twitch and YouTube Live viewers play Trivia, Family Feud and Tower Defense together through chat, in real time.
2019 - 2022
2019 - 2022
Built the gym's management system from scratch, wired into its existing turnstiles and lockers.
Computer Science, Machine Learning
Computer Science