Irakli is director of strategy at API Academy, CA Technologies. At any given time he can be found: designing APIs, coding on Github, obsessing over topics of distributed systems architecture or expressing heartfelt opinions about product design and usability. Irakli is highly involved in the startup and open-source communities. Before CA, Irakli spent over a decade in Washington, DC building innovative products for media companies, government and international organizations, evangelizing and contributing to open-source.