People

Software Engineer

NINO TATENASHVILI

Software Engineer // Backend & mobile  Municipal Services Development Agency Tbilisi, Georgia Software Engineer & Co-Founder of Before the Pritzker Nino  is a Georgian software engineer and team lead at the Municipal Services Development Agency, where she builds production backend systems in Kotlin and Spring Boot. Alongside her engineering work she lectures at Business and Technology University, teaching programming on the JVM platform, and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Blockchain and Decentralized Systems at the University of Georgia. She has shipped several consumer products, including a loyalty points platform for Bank of Georgia, and is an active member of Georgia’s Solana developer community. Drawn to building tools that give people room to create and compete, she co-founded Before the Pritzker to build the platform behind it — bringing competitions, juries, and emerging architects together in one place where ideas can be submitted, judged, and seen.

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Architect // Urban regeneration

TEONA KULJANISHVILI

Teona Kuljanishvili | Architect & Founder of Before the Pritzker
Teona Kuljanishvili is a Georgian architect with a Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Regeneration from Sapienza University of Rome. With over five years of professional experience in Georgia and Italy, she has worked on architectural, urban design, and regeneration projects, earning recognition in national and international competitions.
Passionate about creativity, experimentation, and supporting emerging talent, she founded Before the Pritzker to create opportunities for young architects to explore ideas, challenge conventions, and grow through design.

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