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Maksym Liutsko, AI Automation Engineer and Product Builder

01About

I build what a business runs on. Websites, apps, AI agents and the automation between them, backed by twelve years of shipping.

Co-founder and CTO of XecSuite, co-founder of Apex Mind. I design and ship AI agents, voice interfaces and the automation between them, across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and open-source models, on twelve years of front-end engineering and an Adobe Commerce certification.

● London, Ontario, Canada. Open to remote

years building for the web
12+
online stores launched
20+
companies co-founded
2
Startup Weekend award
1

Toolkit

  • Languages & frameworksReact, Next.js, Vue.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js (back-end), KnockoutJS, jQuery, PHP
  • AI & agentsmulti-agent orchestration, RAG, MCP, prompt engineering, real-time voice agents (OpenAI Realtime, LiveKit, WebRTC), real-time lip-sync
  • ModelsOpenAI, Anthropic Claude (Claude Code), Google Gemini, self-hosted open-source LLMs
  • AI mediaElevenLabs (voice/TTS), HeyGen (AI video avatars), Kling AI and Seedance (video generation), DALL·E
  • AutomationMake.com, n8n, Telegram bots, cron pipelines, social/video auto-publishing (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X), end-to-end workflow automation
  • Apps & back endExpo (React Native mobile apps), Node.js APIs, Supabase, Stripe payments, dashboards
  • UI/UXTailwindCSS, Styled Components, Figma-to-React, custom animations, accessibility (A11y)
  • State & dataRedux, Context API, REST, Cloudinary, databases
  • E-commerceAdobe Certified Expert (Adobe Commerce / Magento 2), custom checkout, Knockout.js, LESS/SASS, Salesforce LWC, WordPress
  • Tooling & practicesVite, Webpack, Gulp, Grunt, Git, GitHub Actions, Agile, TDD, design systems
02Selected work

Things I've built and shipped.

01Co-founder & CTO

XecSuite

AI Operating Layer for Supply Chain Teams

A governed workforce of AI agents that runs the back office of a logistics company, with a human approving what matters.

6
connected modules
8
agent roles
2
countries, Canada and the US
  • / Next.js
  • / TypeScript
  • / Agents
  • / Hybrid model routing
02Built at Apex Mind

NewsStocks.live

Autonomous Financial-News Platform

A newsroom with nobody in it: over a hundred articles a day, market analysis every day, week and month, and short videos for the social channels.

100+
articles a day
27.9K
articles published since February 2026
20
kinds of content, from briefs to market games
  • / Next.js
  • / GPT-4o-mini
  • / Cron pipelines
  • / Telegram
03Co-founder

Apex Mind

AI Automation Studio

Practical automation for 5 to 50 person businesses in London, Ontario: we map the week, build into the tools you already run, and train the team.

7
services, from websites to video ads
5–50
person businesses we build for
2
founders, Olha and me
  • / Automation
  • / LLMs
  • / GSAP
  • / Lenis
04Front-end developer and team lead

E-commerce

Magento / Adobe Commerce

Over a hundred websites across the career, and six years of Magento 2 storefronts for retail brands in Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

20+
stores launched
100+
websites over the career
3
countries of retail clients
  • / Magento 2
  • / Knockout.js
  • / LESS/SASS
  • / Salesforce LWC
03Career

Built for clients. Now building with agents.

  1. 2026 – present

    Co-Founder & CTO

    XecSuite

    AI operating layer for supply chain teams in Canada and the United States - a tenant-private company-memory core and a governed, approval-gated agent workforce. Lead the technical architecture: agent runtime, hybrid model routing, and product engineering. Built and awarded at a Startup Weekend; now live.

  2. 2026 – present

    Co-Founder & AI Automation Engineer

    Apex Mind Automation

    Practical AI automation for 5-50 person businesses in London, ON - quoting, scheduling, invoicing, follow-ups, paperwork, phone calls and social posts. We map the week, build into the tools clients already run, and train the team. Also build multi-agent systems, LLM assistants and automated content/data pipelines. Built NewsStocks.live and an AI HR assistant.

  3. May 2022 – Jun 2026

    E-commerce Developer

    Northern Commerce, London ON

    Custom Magento 2 themes and UI components, a booking system with Knockout widgets, and Salesforce LWC + Cloud Commerce components for a B2C site. Redesigns for Tepperman's and Figma-to-Magento for Chatters. Using Claude Code + Figma to generate pages.

  4. Dec 2020 – Apr 2022

    Senior Frontend Developer

    Overdose, Ukraine

    Led Magento 2 frontend and custom checkout as team lead: code reviews, estimations, mentoring. Notable work: Euromarc.

  5. Mar 2020 – Dec 2020

    Frontend Developer

    Luxinten, Ukraine

    Magento 2 themes and UI, code reviews, technical interviewing, Firebase A/B testing.

  6. Feb 2018 – Feb 2020

    Frontend Developer

    Orot Technologies, Ukraine

    Magento 2 customization plus ReactJS + TypeScript UIs, Styled Components, Storybook, Redux. Notable work: ESET Store.

  7. Mar 2017 – Feb 2018

    Frontend Developer

    Soulmates, Ukraine

    Converted PSD designs into responsive WordPress themes.

  8. May 2016 – Feb 2017

    Junior Frontend Developer

    111Minutes, Ukraine

    Built websites and SPAs with ReactJS, ES6 and Sass.

Education & certifications

  • Adobe Certified Expert, Adobe Commerce Front-End Developer (2022)
  • Meta, The Full Stack (2024)
  • Master's Degree in Technological Processes Automated Control, National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine (2012)
04Services

Not only front end. Whatever your business needs.

Front end is where I started. Today I build the whole thing: the website or app, the AI agents behind it, and the automations that keep your marketing running while you get on with the work.

  1. 01

    Websites of any kind

    Marketing sites, online stores, landing pages, booking flows and immersive 3D experiences, built on Next.js. Fast, accessible, and easy for your team to update.

    • 20+ online stores launched on Adobe Commerce
    • Rebuilt slow sites from ~30s to ~3s loads
    • Next.js
    • Magento
    • WordPress
    • Three.js
  2. 02

    Web and mobile apps

    Products from first sketch to production: web apps, mobile apps, dashboards and the backend under them, with accounts, payments and data done properly.

    • OwnerSteps: Next.js web app plus Expo mobile app
    • FrameForge AI: a full-stack film studio
    • React
    • Expo
    • Node.js
    • Supabase
    • Stripe
  3. 03

    AI voice agents

    Assistants that talk with your customers in real time, answer questions, take bookings and hand off to a person when they should.

    • Realtime voice assistant in XecSuite
    • OwnerSteps: voice-first assistant that confirms before any change
    • OpenAI Realtime
    • LiveKit
    • WebRTC
    • ElevenLabs
  4. 04

    AI agents and automation

    Agents and workflows that take the repetitive work off your team: quoting, scheduling, invoicing, follow-ups, support answers and paperwork.

    • XecSuite support agent on a self-hosted model
    • A Claude Code multi-agent team used on real products
    • Claude
    • OpenAI
    • n8n
    • Make.com
    • MCP
  5. 05

    Social media on autopilot

    Posts that get written, designed and published on a schedule across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and X, with you approving what goes out.

    • NewsStocks publishes to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook
    • OwnerSteps schedules posts to three networks
    • Meta API
    • TikTok
    • YouTube
    • LinkedIn
    • X
    • Telegram
  6. 06

    Ads, made and posted for you

    Ad creatives generated from your products and offers, in every size and copy variant you need, then posted and refreshed without anyone babysitting it.

    • OwnerSteps marketing kit: flyers, cards and social posts
    • Image pipelines with DALL·E and Cloudinary
    • Image generation
    • Copywriting
    • Scheduling
  7. 07

    Video ads

    Short video ads with AI voiceover, presenters and generated footage, cut to length and exported for every platform.

    • NewsStocks short videos with ElevenLabs, HeyGen and Kling
    • FrameForge AI: spoken idea to finished MP4
    • Seedance
    • HeyGen
    • Kling AI
    • ElevenLabs
    • FFmpeg

Something else in mind? If it runs on software, I can most likely build it.

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05Contact

Let's build something.

Tell me what your business needs: a website, an app, a voice agent, automated posts and ads, or something that doesn't have a name yet. I'm also open to AI and front-end roles. Send a line and I'll usually reply within a day.

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