Projects

Three projects that show how I work: a machine line designed, built and sold out of Tbilisi; a wearable designed backwards from what a blind person hears; and a geometry that ran from a foundation grant to a granted utility model to a product family.

PL.01
The G3D Starter — a desktop fused-filament printer, built in Tbilisi.
G3D fused-filament 3D printers
2022 – present
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer · Production
A Georgian manufacturer of fused-filament 3D printers: three production platforms, from a 220 mm desktop machine to a one-metre industrial cell, designed, built and sold out of Tbilisi.
- Mechanical
- Electronics
- Firmware
- Software
- Manufacturing
- Product
- Operations
- 50+
  Machines manufactured to date
- 3
  Production platforms live on the storefront
- 10
  Core engineering and operations team
Read the case study →
PL.02
Vide cap-mounted prototype visualisation.
Vide
2018 – present
Project author; Co-Founder & CEO of NovelVisio · Prototype
An assistive wearable for blind and low-vision people: multi-point distance sensing, the obstacle classified on the device, directed haptics — deliberately no audio channel and no cloud round-trip.
- Research & method
- Mechanical
- Electronics
- Firmware
- Applied AI
- Product
- 100,000 GEL
  GITA co-financing grant awarded to the device
Read the case study →
PL.03
Additively manufactured DAWTONE turbine components.
DAWTONE diagonal-axis wind turbine
2019 – present
Co-Owner & Product Manager; lead microcontroller and embedded engineer on the research grant that produced it · Pilot
A diagonal-axis wind turbine whose conic geometry was patented in 2022 and turned into a product family rated from 100 W to 5 kW, including a portable variant.
- Research & method
- Mechanical
- Electronics
- Firmware
- Manufacturing
- Product
- 550,000 GEL
  Shota Rustaveli Foundation grant that funded the research
- 100 W
  Smallest rating in the product family
- 5,000 W
  Largest rating in the product family
Read the case study →

Built and shipped

The rest of the published record — what reached production, what is in pilot, what was discontinued, and which layers of the stack each one touched.

G3D commerce and manufacturing platform
2022 – present
Architect and lead developer · Production
The software G3D runs on: storefront, checkout, inventory ledger, a pricing engine, quote CRM, customer portal and a bilingual admin CMS, designed and shipped in-house.
- Software
- Product
- Operations
- 17
  Components in the pricing engine
Organisation: G3D
Recycled-PET filament and consumables
2022 – present
Developer — formulation, printing trials, product line · Production
Printing filament made from post-consumer PET bottles, developed from formulation to retail at roughly 180 bottles per kilogram, with a line of bed adhesives and cleaners alongside it.
- Research & method
- Manufacturing
- Product
- 180
  Post-consumer PET bottles per kilogram of filament
Organisation: G3D
Cardiostim
2023 – present
Co-Founder & Technical Lead · Prototype
A wireless leadless cardiac pacemaker: several generations of miniaturised stimulator hardware, power source and charging strategy, embedded firmware and telemetry.
- Research & method
- Electronics
- Firmware
- Product
- 175,000 GEL
  Competitive GITA funding secured across two grants
Organisation: Cardiostim
PulmoScan
2020 – present
Co-Founder of Nemedis; built the deep-learning pipeline · Pilot
An AI diagnostic system that returns a finding from a chest radiograph, initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic and a winning project of the YES Hackathon “Contain COVID-19”.
- Research & method
- Software
- Applied AI
- Product
Organisation: Nemedis
Cognee
2021 – 2024
Co-Founder of MaigicWorks; product definition and UI/UX design · Discontinued
A mobile application supporting early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in children — taken from concept to a live application with an initial cohort of one hundred users, then discontinued when the company closed.
- Software
- Applied AI
- Product
- 100
  Initial user cohort reached
Organisation: MaigicWorks
Smart Aeroponics
2020 – present
Core team — system design, embedded control, installation · Production
A closed-loop aeroponic growing system — irrigation, dosing and light control, EC and pH sensing, a remote dashboard and computer-vision plant-health analysis — with five completed installations and sales across several regions of Georgia.
- Research & method
- Electronics
- Firmware
- Connectivity
- Software
- Applied AI
- Manufacturing
- 100,000 GEL
  GITA co-financing grant awarded in 2020
- 5
  Completed installations and sales
Organisation: NovelVisio
Vortex micro-hydroelectric power station
2022 – present
Leads development of purpose-built measurement, control and firmware · Prototype
A vortex micro-hydroelectric station designed for product unification and mass production, granted as invention patent P 2025 7715 B, with me a named inventor.
- Research & method
- Mechanical
- Electronics
- Firmware
Organisation: Akaki Tsereteli State University
LectureHub
2023 – present
Designer, developer and instructor · Production
A live teaching-operations platform at lecturehub.space — syllabuses, week-by-week lesson plans, classroom decks, class records, protected materials, PDF export and student homework submission — built to run the classes Nata teaches.
- Software
- Education
- 7
  Authored bilingual syllabi
- 600+
  Authored presentation slides
- 100+
  Students taught
Organisation: re:school

Research programmes

Work carried out on grant programmes and inside research institutes, with the papers, patents and funding attached to it.

SimTwin
2026
First author — research and implementation · Research
An open-source, reproducible simulator of networked FDM printer fleets, with digital-twin synchronisation, fault injection and communication impairment — first author, MIT-licensed.
- Research & method
- Connectivity
- Software
- 1,000
  Simulated printers at the scalability limit
- 70,363 msg/s
  Message throughput
- 42
  Tests in the released package
Organisation: G3D
Conical wind turbine research programme
2019 – 2023
Lead microcontroller and embedded engineer — instrumentation, control electronics, data acquisition, firmware · Research
The Shota Rustaveli Foundation research programme, GEL 550,000 from 2019, on a new type of conical wind turbine: the aerodynamic and structural analysis, the instrumented measurement, and the patent that came out of it.
- Research & method
- Electronics
- Firmware
- Manufacturing
- 550,000 GEL
  Foundation grant funding the programme
Organisation: Akaki Tsereteli State University
Vehicle recuperative suspension with energy regeneration
2019 – 2021
Embedded hardware and software — sensing, control, data acquisition · Research
A Shota Rustaveli Foundation project on a vehicle suspension that recovers energy a conventional suspension throws away as heat in the damper; published in Environmental and Climate Technologies in 2022.
- Research & method
- Electronics
- Firmware
- Software
Organisation: Akaki Tsereteli State University
Hydro-vacuum dispersion of metallic melts
2023 – 2026
Mechanical-engineering work package; co-developed the instrumentation device and its software · Research
A unified machine for hydro-vacuum dispersion of metallic melts into active powders, at the R. Dvali Institute of Machine Mechanics; two published results, 2024 and 2026.
- Research & method
- Mechanical
Organisation: R. Dvali Institute of Machine Mechanics
iCognative
2024 – 2025
Core member of the AI team — EEG modelling and validation · Research
Brain-electrical-activation platform built on P300 event-related-potential science, for investigative and security screening.
- Research & method
- Software
- Applied AI
Organisation: Brainwave Science
Basil Health
2024 – 2025
Core member of the AI team — EEG modelling and validation · Research
A consumer application combining EEG biofeedback with AI to track stress, focus, calm and sleep.
- Software
- Applied AI
- Product
Organisation: Brainwave Science