Toto Who?
Totocaster is my virtual nick-name, a combination of my real name – Toto and Stratocaster Guitar. I’m a Mac and iPhone programmer with lot’s of other hobbies, mainly I enjoy photography and playing guitar.
Me in Tbilisi botanic garden, shot by Busi KhotivariNow I’m working for young but very successful Georgian ad-agency called Sakideamsheni as an web-developer and software engineer for in-house projects. Also I’m independent software developer and mainly interested in Ruby on Rails and Mac/iPhone software. Currently I’m working on iPhone app called Blogium, which is a Google Blogger/Blogspot client app. I’m also running very young software company 63BITS located in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 63BITS we do software for enterprise clients.
Software Development
I’m former Microsoft .NET and business applications developer which few years ago switched to Mac and abandoned Microsoft related products at home, but in 63BIT have to do some Windows programming as-well. Mainly I work with Ruby on Rails and other open-scource projects. Few month ago I launched my first iPhone app to App Store, it’s called Blogium – the Google Blogger/Blogspot client for iPhone and iPod touch, which in my mind is the best Blogger client available today on market. I’m considering some other iPhone and Mac projects in future. After working with Macs and iPhones for a few years I switched form client work to public retails products like Blogium.
Photography
Photography is my main hobby for now. I love everything in it, starting with photographic process form shooting to development and finishing with just looking at other’s great work. My main photo gallery is on my flickr page (for now). I’m planing to create own gallery here on my site to present my work better. I also consider myself a photographic gear geek, I love cameras and especially lenses, I have little collection of old soviet film cameras and all kinds of lenses for my main tool – Nikon D80, I’m planing to upgrade to D700 tho.
Design and Typography Love
I just love it. I love good, well-made, beautifully-crafted, user-friendly, innovative and cute things. I love Apple, Aston Martin and BMW cars, Leica cameras, work of Tema Lebedev, Dieter Rams, Stefan Sagmeister, Chris Bangle, Helvetica typeface and Swiss design, and anything else what looks and feels beautiful.
Guitar and Music
I felt in love with guitar when I was teenager and since then it was fantastic journey throw my emotional life, playing guitar is one of the most important things in my life when I’m sad or happy. I do not record much but there are some of mine draft recording on Soundcloud, so do not forget to check ‘em out.
Contact Information
Feel free to contact me via Twitter or e-mail. You can find me also on Facebook (temporarily deactivated account) and Skype (this site address w/o .com) or on Linked-in.
Hi Toto,
I repesent a vey small company in London, England that works with museums, art galleries, and so on, providing them with a publishing platform. We are a very yong company ourselves and are working on expansion.
I have a personal attachment to Georgia (my wife is from Tbilisi) and so far has had some good experiences working with Georgians.
We have an agreement with a developer in Tbilisi who is working on our website.
We have an iPhone application, currently live on the iTunes Store, called OOKL. We are currently looking for an iPhone developer to create version 2.0 of the application. Someone gave me a link to your website – and hence my email.
Before we get into a longer discussion, can you please let me know generally what your rates are for client work? As I mentioned, we are a small and young company and have a rather limited budget that we can work with.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks in advance.
-Aleks