Marko Kostiv
Engineering Manager, Machine Learning at Linearity
Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolMarko Kostiv is an AI engineering manager and PhD researcher based in Lviv with 11 years in software and a decade-plus focus on machine learning, currently leading GenAI feature delivery and R&D at Linearity. He has built ML capability from the ground up—designing data collection and annotation pipelines, shipping on-edge models used by hundreds of thousands, and optimizing inference speed and accuracy in production. Marko has scaled teams and projects across industries, from seismic 3D segmentation and mobile image enhancement to fintech CLV modeling, combining hands-on research with product and business alignment. He excels at turning state-of-the-art research into user-facing systems while managing hiring, budgets, and cross-functional roadmaps. A pragmatic leader, he often bridges academia and industry, bringing rigorous experimental practice to fast-moving product contexts.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
State University 'Lviv Polytechnics'Master's degree Computer Science / Data Science, Master's degree Computer Science / Data Science at Ukrainian Catholic University
English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (47)
flux9
audio9
deep-learning8
stable-diffusion8
pytorch8
twilio7
diffusers7
diffusion-models7
nvidia7
image-generation7
object-detection6
gpu6
twilio-api6
machine-learning6
text2image6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kuna-systems/detr
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
End-to-End Object Detection with Transformers
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 months
pytorchimagenettransformersend-to-enddetection
MarkoGit/TravelAgency
Apr 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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