Orlando, Florida · Available for product teams

MARK
PALKIMAS

Software Engineer & Product Builder

I design and engineer intelligent products built to work in the real world.

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From useful AI interfaces to resilient operational systems, I build the parts people actually depend on.

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01 / Flagship product

MyStudy
Guide AI

An AI-powered study platform that turns course materials into useful, grounded learning tools.

Co-Founder & Software Engineer

1,000+users supported
20+classes organized
~200documents ingested
RAGretrieval-informed answers

What I built A full-stack learning environment with document parsing, indexed chunks, retrieval workflows, course organization, and a direct student experience.

How it works React and Vite on the frontend; Node/Express, Clerk, Redis/Upstash, Vercel, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, and document processing across the product stack.

02 / Operations, clarified

Alpine Financial
Resources

Turning high-volume real-estate and financial information into practical, dependable workflows.

Automation and workflow engineering

20,000+records worked through
~60%less manual work

Built automation and reliable business workflows that made large, messy information easier to use—without exposing private data.

03 / A playful product system

Outsmart
AI

A mobile learning game where players progress through AI challenges, missions, rewards, and avatar systems.

Product and software engineering

Explore the source
100+levels
50items
10K+avatar combinations
20free levels

04 / More to explore

Project
index

01Real Estate Information AI Scraper / AggregatorData + AI+

Automation for collecting and structuring real-estate information for analysis workflows.

Source listingExtract fieldsStructured record
02Automotive Auction Data PipelineData systems+

Playwright-based collection and parsing workflows for high-value vehicle auction listings, seller data, and filtering.

03AI Plagiarism Detection ToolApplied AI+

Python text-analysis system for comparing document similarity using tokenized analysis and semantic matching.

04Smart Contracts — MonOP V1–V5Blockchain+

Five Solidity iterations focused on predictable execution and maintainable digital agreement logic. View source ↗

05Emotion Recognition AIApplied AI+

An interactive model exploring real-time emotional signal interpretation. View source ↗

markpalkimas.com
TypeMotionSystems

The final project has been in front of you the entire time.

04 / This portfolio

Designed as
an experience.

This website is an exploration of product storytelling, motion, spatial composition, responsive engineering, performance, accessibility, and frontend architecture.

  • Semantic HTML and progressive enhancement
  • CSS 3D product scenes and scroll-driven motion
  • Adaptive interaction and reduced-motion support

About / Approach

I build the useful
part all the way through.

I’m a software engineer with a Computer Science background from the University of Central Florida. I’m drawn to AI products, backend systems, developer tooling, and interfaces that make complex work feel clear.

I care about the point where a prototype becomes something people can rely on: the data paths, the product decisions, and the small details that make a system feel considered.

JavaScriptPythonReactNode.jsExpressViteTailwindRAGREST APIsSolidity

Have a project in mind?

Let’s build
something useful.

Mark.Palkimas@gmail.com