# Gerind Tershana

> Gerind Tershana is a software engineer in Tirana, Albania: Lead System Architect at Innovation4Albania, previously a developer at Detag. 5+ years building scalable web applications, high-concurrency APIs and CI/CD pipelines with Go, Node.js, Laravel, Vue/Nuxt and React. Open to freelance projects and part-time roles.

- Website: https://gerind.dev
- Email: gerindt@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerindtershana/
- GitHub: https://github.com/GerindT
- CV (English, PDF): https://gerind.dev/Gerind_Tershana_EN.pdf
- CV (Albanian, PDF): https://gerind.dev/Gerind_Tershana_AL.pdf

## Pages

- [Home](https://gerind.dev/): profile, selected work and contact
- [Projects](https://gerind.dev/projects): all projects, grouped by where they were built
- [About](https://gerind.dev/about): career, education, tools and countries visited
- [Media](https://gerind.dev/media): favourite books, films and manga

## Experience

- Lead System Architect, Innovation4Albania (Oct 2026 – Present): Lead the technical direction and system architecture of public-sector platforms, from data model to deployment. Shipped Pasqyra e Çmimeve, the national price-transparency site and app, and work on Hap një derë, IQMT, MIP and the team's project generator.
- Software Developer, Detag (Aug 2024 – Nov 2026): Architected and maintained high-concurrency web platforms using Go, Node.js and Laravel. Led full-stack architectural overhauls and engineered CI/CD pipelines to scale projects and automate deployments.
- Back-End Developer (Contract), RollBet (Jun 2024 – Jan 2025): Stabilised backend infrastructure by resolving critical logic flaws and race conditions. Engineered a scalable queueing workflow for background tasks and automated payouts. Integrated secure fiat and crypto payment gateways (API, webhooks).
- Junior Web Developer, Black Box (Aug 2023 – Oct 2023): Built full-stack features with Next.js and PostgreSQL in an AWS environment. Improved maintainability by introducing standardised unit testing.
- Web Developer (Contract), Rift Drop (Sep 2022 – Oct 2023): Built a real-time messaging platform with WebSockets, Express and React. Owned end-to-end delivery of multiplayer features and crypto-wallet monetisation.
- Programming Teacher, Albanian ICT Academy (Mar 2022 – Sep 2023): Mentored students in Python, C++ and React Native, making complex architectural ideas simple.
- Back-End Developer, Detag (Jun 2021 – Oct 2021): Implemented core backend features across multiple web systems and supported frontend integrations.

## Education and community

- Organizing Team Member, EEML Summer School · Cetinje, Montenegro (2026)
- Poster Presenter, EEML Summer School · Novi Sad, Serbia (2024). Bachelor's thesis: user-driven product analysis via web scraping and multi-modal NLP.
- B.Sc. Computer Science, Valedictorian, University of New York Tirana (2021 – 2024)
- High School Diploma, Valedictorian, Hermann Gmeiner · software engineering track (2017 – 2021)

Languages: Albanian (Native), English (C1), German (B1).

## Projects: Personal & freelance

Products, experiments and contracts I built on my own time or for my own clients.

- [Vanspot](https://gerind.dev/projects/vanspot) (2026; In progress, Not public yet): Travel app for vanlifers and motorhomes in Albania: maps, vehicle-aware routing, community spots and an AI guide.
- [Kean Visual Creations](https://gerind.dev/projects/kean) (2026; Live): Website for Kean, a photo and video studio in Tirana working with hospitality, food and drink brands. (site: https://kean-eight.vercel.app)
- [After Hours](https://gerind.dev/projects/after-hours) (2026; In progress, Not public yet): Portrait mobile horror dungeon crawler with a VHS look. The bell rang; the school kept you.
- [Audire](https://gerind.dev/projects/audire) (2026; Concept, Front-end demo): Audio restoration lab that compares DSP, evolutionary, deep-learning and hybrid methods on the same recording. (site: https://audire.gerind.dev)
- [AI Albania](https://gerind.dev/projects/ai-albania) (2025; Live, Code private): Website for AI Albania, an initiative shaping a responsible AI ecosystem in Albania. (site: https://aialbania.org)
- [reSearch](https://gerind.dev/projects/research) (2024, Web development course; Retired): A home for AI research papers, inspired by ResearchGate and arXiv: PDF uploads, comments, favourites and moderators who verify papers. React front end, hand-written PHP API, MySQL. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/reSearch)
- [Pyramid × Pragma](https://gerind.dev/projects/pragma) (2026; Front-end demo): Event operations for the Pyramid of Tirana: a public booking portal and a staff admin panel that runs events end to end. The booking API is offline for now, so the portal shows its UI only. (site: https://piramida.pragma.ltd, code: https://github.com/GerindT/pragma)
- [Scamless](https://gerind.dev/projects/scamless) (2024, Bachelor's thesis; Front-end demo): Rates the credibility of Amazon products from their reviews, using web scraping and multi-modal NLP: sentiment, feature extraction and recommendations. Presented as a poster at EEML 2024. The demo is the front end only; the scraping backend isn't hosted. (site: https://scamless.gerind.dev, code: https://github.com/GerindT/webScraping)
- [Rollbet](https://gerind.dev/projects/rollbet) (2024, Backend contract; Retired): Fixed race conditions, built queued payouts and integrated fiat and crypto payment gateways.
- [Sose Al](https://gerind.dev/projects/sose-al) (2024; Concept, Retired): Hiring platform concept with AI candidate search over a vector database.
- [LolCases](https://gerind.dev/projects/lolcases) (2022, Team lead; Code private): Led the team building it: a React front end, an Express API and Socket.IO services for live battles, with Steam sign-in and crypto checkout.
- [Off Road](https://gerind.dev/projects/off-road) (2021; Runs locally): Campground web app grown out of the YelpCamp course, with tighter security and Google Maps integration. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/offroad)

### A project a day

A challenge I set myself: build a small, complete app in a day. They run locally and the code is public.

- [Goflight](https://gerind.dev/projects/goflight) (2026): Terminal-style flight dashboard. A Go service aggregates flight and weather data with caching, circuit breakers and metrics. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/GoFlight)
- [Prompt Arena](https://gerind.dev/projects/prompt-arena) (2026): Head-to-head voting on AI image generations. Elo ratings update through a Postgres function and the winners climb a live leaderboard. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/prompt-arena)
- [Pixel Party](https://gerind.dev/projects/pixel-party) (2025): Real-time collaborative pixel canvas: paint together on a shared board with live updates, ghost cursors and PNG/SVG export. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/pixel-party)
- [007-drop](https://gerind.dev/projects/007-drop) (2026): Self-destructing file sharing with in-browser encryption, optional passwords and automatic clean-up. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/007-drop)

## Projects: Innovation4Albania

Public-sector platforms, as Lead System Architect. Linked where the platform is public.

- [Pasqyra e Çmimeve](https://gerind.dev/projects/pasqyra) (2026; Live): National price-transparency platform: shoppers compare weekly prices of basic goods across markets, on the web and in an Expo mobile app. My part: Technical lead and architect: shaped how the platform is structured and delivered, and worked hands-on across the web app and API with the team. (site: https://pasqyraecmimeve.al)
- [Hap një derë](https://gerind.dev/projects/hap-nje-dere) (2026; In progress, Not public yet): National platform for the rent-subsidy programme: citizens browse homes and apply online, landlords offer houses, and staff review every application in one audited dashboard. My part: Product owner and lead developer: turned the programme's rules into roles, flows and a working product, from the data model to the citizen and staff experience.
- [MIP](https://gerind.dev/projects/mip) (2026; Internal): Menaxhimi i Investimeve Publike: monitoring for Albania's public investment portfolio. My part: Architect and developer alongside the team: data model, API design and the front end.
- [IQMT](https://gerind.dev/projects/iqmt) (2026; Internal): Digital elevator registry, built for ISHMT. My part: Led development: set the architecture and built the core of the registry.
- [i4a-generator](https://gerind.dev/projects/i4a-generator) (2026; Internal): CLI that scaffolds new projects from the team's templates. My part: Designed and built it, so every new team project starts from the same proven structure.

## Projects: Detag

Client platforms built as a developer at Detag. Linked only where the product is already public.

- [MyCredit](https://gerind.dev/projects/mycredit) (2024; Live, Code private): Event management and cashless payments: ticketing, an embeddable widget and white-label sites. My part: One of the lead developers: helped shape the platform's architecture and built core features such as ticketing, white-label event sites and the embeddable widget. (site: https://mycred.it/)
- [Muse-x](https://gerind.dev/projects/muse-x) (2026; Live, Code private): Site for the MUSE-X expo-festival at the Pyramid of Tirana, running on the MyCredit platform. My part: Built the site on top of the MyCredit platform. (site: https://muse-x.al/)
- [Travel system](https://gerind.dev/projects/travel) (2025; Live, Code private): Travel platform for Regina Group: hotels, activities, transfers and job offers, with a Go back end and a multilingual Nuxt front end. My part: Core developer across the Go back end and the Nuxt front end. (site: https://reginagroup.al)
- [Globe ERP system](https://gerind.dev/projects/globe-erp) (2022; Internal): ERP with product, stock and pricing modules. My part: Core developer across the Laravel back end and the Vue front end.
- [Tetris Planner](https://gerind.dev/projects/tetris) (2023; Internal): Material logistics planning, including a warehouse module.

## Projects: Friends' sites

Portfolio sites I built for friends.

- [Florian Hiso](https://gerind.dev/projects/florian-hiso) (2024; Retired): Portfolio for a software developer and AI researcher: timeline, skill badges, projects and a blog served from a small Postgres API. Retired now that he runs his own site. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/florianHiso)
- [Enri Tershana](https://gerind.dev/projects/enri) (2026; Live): Portfolio for a DevOps engineer. (site: https://enri-tershana-portofolio.vercel.app)
- [Rejon Hakrama](https://gerind.dev/projects/rejon) (2026; Live): Terminal-style portfolio for a technical support engineer. (site: https://rejon-hakrama.vercel.app)
- [Aleks Lipo](https://gerind.dev/projects/aleks-lipo) (2023; Live): Bilingual (Albanian / English) personal site with a photo carousel and a timeline of his Bible-school year. Vite, React, Flowbite and Tailwind. (site: https://aleks-lipo.netlify.app, code: https://github.com/GerindT/aleksLipo)

## Projects: Early days

Where it started: school and bootcamp projects from 2021.

- [React Color](https://gerind.dev/projects/react-color) (2021; Retired): Palette maker: create and tweak colour palettes, saved in the browser, with Material UI transitions. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/react-color)
- [Off Road mobile](https://gerind.dev/projects/offroad-app) (2021; Runs locally): React Native app to create, edit and share campgrounds, with Firebase auth and storage. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/offRoad-App)
- [Hermann Gmeiner web app](https://gerind.dev/projects/web-school) (2021; Runs locally): Web app built for my high school as a class project. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/web-school-herrman)
- [Portfolio v1](https://gerind.dev/projects/portfolio-v1) (2021; Runs locally): My first portfolio: multilingual, with switchable themes. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/portfolio-site)
- [Color Game](https://gerind.dev/projects/color-game) (2021; Runs locally): Colour-guessing game in plain JavaScript, HTML and CSS: my first time moving the DOM around. (code: https://github.com/GerindT/color-game)

Groups: Personal & freelance, Innovation4Albania, Detag, Friends' sites, Early days. Government and client work is linked only where the product is already public.