# Marko Khodan

Marko Khodan is a remote worker on Himalayas, Back-End/AI Developer at UGC Content Discovery & Verification Platform, based in Ukraine.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@markokhodan

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Back-End/AI Developer building AI assistants, content verification pipelines, and Pikt’s AI website builder.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Ukraine |
| Authorized to work in | Ukraine |
| Salary expectations | 70k+ USD |
| Job categories | Backend Engineer, AI Developer, Team Lead |
| Skills | Backend Development, AI, Large Language Models, RAG, Serverless Architecture, AWS, Python, fastAPI, Data Ingestion, Information Retrieval, Prompt Engineering, AI Agents, Asynchronous Programming, API Development, Deepfake Detection |

## About

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I developed backend functionality for an AI assistant that answers company-specific questions using client websites and documents. I implemented document processing and retrieval, then integrated LLM-based answers grounded in that knowledge.

On the UGC Content Discovery & Verification Platform, I designed and implemented serverless backend architecture on AWS. I developed verification workflows for deepfakes, AI-generated content, and geolocation, with AI agents and asynchronous processing pipelines.

For Pikt – AI website builder, I worked across back-end development, API integrations, and prompt engineering, and managed the team. I also contributed to AI video automation and real-time business event prediction systems.
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## Experience

### Back-End/AI Developer

UGC Content Discovery & Verification Platform

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Designed and implemented serverless backend architecture for UGC content discovery and automated verification on AWS, including AI-driven verification workflows and AI agents.
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Skills: Python, AWS, Step-Functions, Lambda, Amazon-SQS, S3, AgentCore, RDS, Docker

### Back-End/AI Developer

AI Assistant Start-up

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Developed backend functionality for an AI assistant answering company-specific questions, including document ingestion, retrieval, and LLM-based answer generation.
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Skills: Python, fastAPI, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, Docker-Compose

### Back-End Developer

Competitive Event Analysis System

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Developed back-end components for a business outcome prediction system, including code refactoring, bug fixing, and technical specification preparation.
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Skills: Python, fastAPI, WebSockets, MySQL, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, PostgreSQL, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, GraphQL, Redis, Unit-Testing, Sentry, Docker

### Team Lead | Back-End/AI Developer

Pikt

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Led back-end development and team management for an AI website builder, including API integrations, prompt engineering, and code refactoring.
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Skills: Python, fastAPI, OpenAI, Stable-Diffusion, Stripe, WebSockets, Anthropic-API, Lang-Chain, Google-Search-Console, PostgreSQL, Redis, Auth0, OVH, Postman, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker

### Back-End/AI Developer

AI Social Media Automatization

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Developed back-end logic for AI-driven video cleaning and translation, including OpenAI integration and social media content management.
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Skills: Python, fastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic, OpenAI, Anthropic-API, Nginx, Alembic, Redis, Celery, Prometheus, Poetry, Hetzner

## Education

### Coursera

Certificate, Secure Coding

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Completed a certificate in Secure Coding in Python.
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### National Aviation University

Bachelor's degree, Systems of Technical Protection of Information

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Pursued a Bachelor's degree in Systems of Technical Protection of Information.
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## Tech stack

- Postman
- Selenium
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon S3
- AWS Step Functions
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Docker Compose
- GitHub Actions
- NumPy
- Pandas
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- OVH
- Poetry
- Sentry
- Redis
- PyCharm
- Python
- Kafka
- Amazon SQS
- Celery
- FastAPI
- AIOHTTP
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- SQLAlchemy
- Stripe
- Datadog
- Heroku
- GraphQL
- Elasticsearch
- AWS Lambda
- pytest
- Auth0
- Git
- Docker
- NGINX
- SQL
- LangChain
- Pydantic
- Stable Diffusion
- N8N
- Logfire
- AWS

To contact Marko, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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