Hi, I'm Ateef Sheikh

About Me

AI Automation Specialist turning manual processes into intelligent, automated systems.

I build AI agents and AI-driven workflows using Claude, Gemini, n8n, Make, and Zapier, working across GenAI, data platforms, and cloud architecture. My work covers prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, KPI dashboards, customer communication automation, and AI content generation, with a hands-on focus on cloud security, monitoring, access control, and vulnerability assessment. I've delivered projects for UAE and international clients, led a team of five, and I'm open to roles across AI, cloud, data, security, and technical pre-sales.

AI Agents & Claude

Designing and deploying production AI agents with Claude, Claude Code, LangChain, and LangGraph, including multi-agent systems and tool use

Workflow Automation

Building end-to-end automations with n8n, Make, and Zapier: invoice OCR, lead qualification, WhatsApp customer communication, and more

AI Content & Video

Creating presentations, brochures, marketing videos, and voice narration with Google Veo, Gemini, and Text-to-Speech pipelines

Data & Analytics

Delivering Power BI and SQL analytics suites, KPI dashboards, ETL data modeling, and cloud-native data pipelines that drive real decisions

Cloud Security

Hands-on cloud security work: incident response, IAM hardening, API key rotation, vulnerability assessment, and OWASP-based testing

Cloud & Deployment

Shipping to production on Google Cloud, Vertex AI, and Windows Server with IIS, Oracle Cloud certified, with hands-on Azure experience

Experience

My professional journey so far

Cloud, Data & AI Solutions Engineer

Karanji Infotech Pvt. Ltd. · UAE (Remote Work)

Apr 2025 - Mar 2026
  • Led on-site and remote discovery sessions with Retail and Oil & Gas stakeholders to understand business problems, capture requirements, and shape AI and data pilot use cases aligned to their goals
  • Designed and deployed a full Power BI and SQL analytics suite for Ideal Ice Creams covering 200+ retail outlets, giving stakeholders real-time visibility into best-selling SKUs, daily sales performance, and critical business KPIs
  • Pitched, built, and delivered an AI content generation platform for a UAE banking client, cutting a 1-2 month production process down to about 20 seconds
  • Developed RAG-based document search agents over domain-heavy technical documentation, turning static PDFs into searchable, interactive knowledge bases for engineering teams
  • Built and deployed multi-agent chatbots with LangChain and LangGraph using OpenAI and Gemini models, running on Google Cloud for scalable, low-latency access in production
  • Engineered cloud-native data pipelines with Python and GCP Cloud Functions to automate extraction and processing of structured data from financial and operational documents
  • Created AI-generated marketing videos with Google Veo on Vertex AI, from script writing to final edit
  • Built an end-to-end handwritten invoice automation with n8n: OCR extraction, automatic tax calculation, and clean data straight into Excel
  • Deployed customer communication automation using the WhatsApp Business API, webhooks, and database integration
  • Built Microsoft Teams AI agents with Copilot Studio connected to enterprise knowledge sources
  • Detected and contained a live cloud security incident: spotted unauthorized API usage through Google Cloud Logging and billing alerts, rotated exposed keys, restricted ingress to trusted IP ranges, tightened IAM permissions, and coordinated with Google Cloud Support to prevent recurrence
  • Deployed and managed production applications on Windows Server with IIS, configuring hosting environments, SSL certificates, application pools, and security settings
  • Ran requirement-gathering workshops and playback sessions, translating business outcomes like faster decisions and reduced manual effort into concrete technical designs and delivery plans
  • Hardened production AI apps against prompt injection, and managed a team of 5 across concurrent client projects

Tech Support Engineer

GlowTouch Technologies · UAE (Remote Work)

Aug 2024 - Jan 2025
  • Served as the primary technical contact for 20+ hosting clients per day, handling troubleshooting, change requests, and discussions around DNS, SSL, databases, and application performance
  • Worked directly with clients and senior internal teams to stabilize production websites, optimize performance, and plan migrations, contributing to high satisfaction and repeat business
  • Collaborated with senior server and network teams to resolve complex incidents quickly, improving overall resolution times and reinforcing a service-oriented mindset
  • Used AI-powered tools to speed up ticket documentation and customer communication, improving response times and consistency
  • Employee of the Month two months in a row, and 'Most Consistent Performer' during training
  • 50+ customers publicly named me in five-star Trustpilot reviews for HostGator support, shown in the Reviews section below

Freelance Web, AI & Digital Presence Consultant

WebTech Solutions · India

Nov 2023 - Jun 2024
  • Worked with small and medium business owners to turn business models, visibility challenges, and growth goals into clear website and digital presence requirements
  • Designed and customised modern websites for UAE-based clients, improving branding, usability, and clarity of services for a more professional online presence
  • Created WhatsApp and email automation flows that improved lead capture and customer follow-up with minimal manual effort
  • Set up and optimised Google Business Profile and Google Maps listings, increasing local search visibility and making it easier for customers to discover and contact each business

Data Science Intern

Accolade Tech Solutions · India

Aug 2023 - Sep 2023
  • Built a TensorFlow model to detect diabetic retinopathy from retinal images and deployed it with Flask on the Render platform
  • Developed a responsive web interface with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for user-friendly diagnosis access
  • Delivered the whole pipeline end to end, from model training through to a production REST API

B.E. in Information Science & Engineering

A.J. Institute of Engineering and Technology · 2020 - 2024

Skills

The tools and technologies I work with every day

AI Agents & LLMs

Claude APIClaude CodeLangChainLangGraphOpenAI APIGemini APIHugging FaceLocal LLMs (Ollama)RAG PipelinesPrompt EngineeringVector Databases

Automation Platforms

n8nMake (Integromat)ZapierPower AutomatePower AppsWhatsApp Business APIWebhooksInvoice OCR & Extraction

Security & Pentesting

Burp SuiteOWASP Top 10Kali LinuxTryHackMe LabsWeb App Security TestingIAM & Access ControlVPC FirewallsAPI Rate LimitingPrompt Injection Testing

Cloud & Deployment

Google CloudCloud RunCloud FunctionsCompute Engine & VMsCloud StorageVertex AIOracle Cloud (Certified)Microsoft AzureVercel

Data & Analytics

PostgreSQLMongoDBSQLPower BIKPI DashboardsETL & Data ModelingExcel AutomationSemantic Search

Programming

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGitGitHubREST APIs

Backend & APIs

Node.jsNestJSExpressPrisma ORMJWT AuthenticationOAuthJob Queues (pg-boss)

Web Development

ReactNext.jsTailwind CSSThree.jsHTML5CSS3Android (Java)

AI Content & Video

Google VeoGemini Image GenerationGoogle Text-to-SpeechElevenLabs Voice AIVideo Editing

AI & Machine Learning

PyTorchTensorFlowFlaskTransfer LearningComputer VisionPose Detection

Servers & Infrastructure

Windows ServerIIS HostingDNS & SSL CertificatesDocker & ContainersServer ManagementUptime & MonitoringProduction Deployment

Operating Systems

WindowsLinuxKali LinuxUbuntuAndroid

Tools & Software

VS CodeCursorPostmanFirebaseRenderMicrosoft 365 CopilotCopilot StudioSlackGoogle SheetsMapbox

Projects

Client work I have delivered and things I have built

Client & Professional Work

Wage Reconciliation API

MRPL, Enterprise

An enterprise backend that automates the entire wage audit process. It accepts a wage register plus statutory documents like bank statements, PF ECR, ESIC records, and PT challans, then runs forensic fraud detection on every PDF before anything else touches it. Gemini on Vertex AI extracts the data, and a rules engine cross-verifies wages, deductions, and bank payments for every single employee. Jobs run through a persistent PostgreSQL-backed queue, the whole thing is secured with JWT client-credential auth and scope-based access control, and results come back through a polling API and completion webhooks.

NestJSTypeScriptVertex AI (Gemini)PostgreSQLPrismaJWT Auth

AI Content Generation Platform

UAE Banking Sector

I spotted the opportunity, pitched the solution on the spot, and built the whole thing myself. The platform takes simple input, uses an LLM to structure a script, generates images with the Gemini API, and adds voice narration with Google Text-to-Speech, all in one automated pipeline. What used to take one to two months of production work now takes about 20 seconds, with usage analytics built in.

PythonClaudeGemini APIGoogle TTS

RAG Document Search Agent

Oil & Gas Client

A retrieval-augmented search agent that answers questions over domain-heavy documentation like oil and gas procedures, technical reports, and compliance documents. A semantic search pipeline built with LangChain and Gemini turns static PDFs and manuals into an interactive knowledge base, cutting the time to find critical information from hours to minutes.

LangChainGemini APIVector DatabasesPythonGoogle Cloud

AI Marketing Video Production

Client Marketing Campaigns

Created finished, campaign-ready marketing and advertising videos using Google Veo on Vertex AI. I wrote the original marketing scripts, generated the footage with AI, and edited everything into polished final videos for real client campaigns.

Google VeoVertex AIVideo Editing

Handwritten Invoice Automation

UAE Client

An end-to-end n8n pipeline that completely removes manual invoice entry. Handwritten invoices uploaded through a web app are automatically read, cleaned, and validated; the applicable tax is calculated automatically; and the structured data lands directly in Excel, no human typing needed anywhere.

n8nClaude APIPythonExcel Automation

WhatsApp Customer Communication Automation

Client Deployment

A fully automated customer communication system built on the WhatsApp Business API. Webhooks trigger marketing messages and lead engagement flows automatically, and everything is tracked in a PostgreSQL database so campaign performance can be measured.

PythonWhatsApp Business APIPostgreSQL

Microsoft Teams AI Agents

Enterprise Deployment

Enterprise AI agents built with Copilot Studio and deployed inside Microsoft Teams, connected to company knowledge sources. They answer employee questions and automate internal workflows, showing AI agents working across platforms, not just in chat apps.

Copilot StudioMicrosoft TeamsEnterprise Knowledge Sources

Gmail to Slack Alert Automation

UAE Client

An n8n workflow that watches the client's inbox and posts important emails straight to Slack. A Gmail trigger polls for new mail every minute, a condition filters by sender, and the team channel gets a formatted alert with the sender, subject, and time. The client uses it for urgent customer emails, support tickets, and invoice alerts, so nothing important sits unread.

n8nGmail APISlack API

Website Lead Capture Automation

UAE Client

Replaces manual copy-paste of website enquiries. When a visitor fills the client's contact form, the site posts the data to an n8n webhook, the fields are cleaned and mapped, and every submission lands as a new row in a Google Sheet the sales team already uses. Notification steps on top ping the team by email and Telegram the moment a new lead arrives.

n8nWebhooksGoogle SheetsTelegram

Website Uptime Monitor

UAE Client

A scheduled n8n workflow that checks the client's website around the clock. An HTTP request tests the response code on a fixed schedule, and anything other than a healthy 200 triggers an instant Slack and email alert with the URL, status code, and time. Downtime gets caught in minutes instead of being discovered by customers.

n8nHTTP APIsSlack API

Daily Currency Rate Tracker

UAE Client

Runs every morning at 9 AM, fetches the latest USD to AED exchange rate from a currency API, keeps just the fields that matter, and appends the day's rate to a Google Sheet. Over time this builds a clean rate history the client uses for pricing decisions, with threshold alerts ready to add on Telegram.

n8nREST APIsGoogle Sheets

Retail Analytics & KPI Dashboard

Ideal Ice Creams, India

A centralized Power BI analytics solution for a major retail chain with over 200 outlets. Interactive dashboards let stakeholders spot the highest-performing products, analyze regional sales trends, and monitor daily operational KPIs in real time, leading to data-driven inventory and marketing decisions.

Power BISQLData ModelingExcel

Cloud API Security & Cost Anomaly Detection

Google Cloud Platform

Caught and contained a real cloud security incident. Daily monitoring of Google Cloud Logging and billing data surfaced abnormal API traffic and cost spikes, and the investigation traced unauthorized IP activity back to an exposed API key. The fix combined key rotation, IP-based ingress restrictions, API rate limiting, and tightened IAM permissions, with Google Cloud Support looped in to prevent any recurrence.

Google Cloud LoggingIAMVPC FirewallCloud Run

Personal Projects & Open Source

Bharat Connect, Community Issue Reporting

A smart civic-reporting platform built at a hackathon. Anyone can photograph a local problem like garbage, potholes, or live wires, and the app automatically pins it on a map. Salesforce BLIP AI analyzes each photo to judge severity and route the report to the right government department, and a social-media-style feed lets people across India view issues, act on them, and earn rewards for resolving them.

Next.jsSalesforce BLIP AIMapboxNeon PostgresHugging Face

AI Code Modernization App

Analyzes, documents, and converts legacy codebases into modern programming languages using generative AI, making old enterprise code easier to maintain. Ranked top 20 in a competitive hackathon, which led directly to an internship opportunity at EG India.

Next.jsGemini APIGoogle CloudTailwind CSS

Gmail Summarizer

An email automation tool that does for free what Gmail charges for. Sign in securely with OAuth, pick a timeframe, and it fetches your emails and uses Gemini to write concise summaries, sort messages by priority (high, medium, low), and suggest actionable next steps, with Redux keeping the whole experience fast and smooth.

MERN StackGmail APIGemini APIRedux

Audit Issues Management Automation

An enterprise automation solution on Microsoft Power Platform. Auditors manage audit issues in a model-driven Power App backed by Dataverse, and a Power Automate flow automatically logs every status change (New → In Progress → On Hold → Closed) into a timeline on each issue, so management sees the full history of delays, re-opens, and bottlenecks instead of just the current status.

Power AppsPower AutomateMicrosoft Dataverse

Krishi Mithr AI, Smart Farming Assistant

An AI assistant for farmers built during a hackathon, packing six smart farming features into one app. Farmers sign in securely with Gmail through Firebase, ask questions to an assistant powered by Gemini on Vertex AI, and get answers backed by knowledge retrieval on Pinecone. Built with Next.js, Tailwind, and Firebase Studio.

Next.jsGemini APIFirebaseVertex AI

BridgeX, AI Code Translator

Two chatbots sit side by side: paste code into the left one and Gemini translates it into another language on the right. Separate pages handle code analysis with insights and suggestions, and automatic documentation generation with explanations and usage examples.

JavaScriptGemini APIHTML5

AI Debate Agents

A fact-checking tool where AI agents literally argue with each other. One agent defends a claim, another attacks it, both using real evidence scraped from the web, and a judge model weighs the debate to give a verdict. Runs entirely on local language models, so no data leaves your machine.

PythonOllamaWeb Scraping

YouTube RAG Q&A Bot

Talk to YouTube videos. Paste a link and the bot pulls the transcript, indexes it with retrieval-augmented generation, and then answers any question you ask about the video's content, like having a conversation with the video itself.

PythonRAGLangChain

AI PDF Chatbot

Upload a PDF and ask it questions in plain English. LangChain splits the document into chunks, embeds them for semantic search, and answers come straight from your file, perfect for long reports, contracts, or textbooks you don't want to read cover to cover.

PythonLangChainRAG

Tavily Gemma Researcher

A private research assistant that pairs automated web search (Tavily) with Google's Gemma model running locally. You get deep, sourced research on any topic without sending your queries to a cloud AI service.

PythonOllamaTavily Search

Gemini Prescription Analyzer

Scan a photo of a medical prescription and Gemini AI reads it for you, automatically extracting drug names and drawing bounding boxes to show exactly where each medicine appears on the page. Doctors' handwriting, finally decoded.

JavaScriptGemini APIComputer Vision

Talking AI Avatar

A 3D avatar that actually talks back. It combines an LLM for intelligent responses, ElevenLabs for realistic voice synthesis, and a Three.js 3D character that speaks the answers out loud, a working demo of what voice-first AI interfaces can feel like.

JavaScriptThree.jsElevenLabs

AI Chatbot for Android

A native Android chat app powered by OpenAI. It supports text-to-speech, speech-to-text, clipboard integration, and easy answer sharing, with a clear-chat option for privacy. My most-starred repository on GitHub.

JavaAndroidOpenAI API

Cat vs Dog Classifier

A deep-learning image classifier built with PyTorch and ResNet18, using transfer learning for high accuracy on Microsoft's Dogs vs Cats dataset. Google Colab-friendly, upload your own pet photo and it tells you what it sees.

PythonPyTorchTransfer Learning

Yoga Pose Live Detection

Point your webcam at yourself while doing yoga and the app detects your pose in real time using pose-estimation machine learning, giving instant visual feedback on your form.

JavaScriptPose EstimationMachine Learning

Retina Scan, Diabetic Retinopathy Detection

A healthcare project that screens retina images for signs of diabetic retinopathy using a TensorFlow model, built end to end during my data science internship and deployed with Flask on Render, from model training to a live diagnosis interface.

TensorFlowFlaskRender

Yoga Studio Website

A clean, modern, fully responsive website for a yoga studio, built with Next.js and deployed to production.

Next.jsJavaScriptReact

Catering Business Website

A complete website for a catering business with responsive design, modern UI, server-side rendering, and interactive elements, built with Next.js, React, and CSS Modules.

Next.jsTypeScriptReact

Smart City Complaint Portal

A civic web portal where residents report city problems like broken streetlights or garbage pileups, and authorities track each complaint through to resolution.

HTML5CSS3JavaScript

BMI Calculator with Health Maps

Calculates body mass index with visual health charts, then goes a step further: a built-in map shows nearby dietitians and diabetes health centres so users can actually act on their results.

HTML5JavaScriptMaps & Geolocation

Rapid Rock Paper Scissors

A quick, responsive rock-paper-scissors game with dynamic animations. Pick your move, challenge the computer, and watch the outcome play out. Written in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

HTML5CSS3JavaScript

Cake Management System

A C++ console application for bakeries that manages customers, cakes, and orders. It supports adding, editing, and deleting records with fast indexed file searches, secure logins, and text-file storage behind user-friendly menus.

C++File StructuresIndexed Search

What Customers Say

Real customers reviewed me by name on Trustpilot while I supported HostGator clients at GlowTouch Technologies. Every word below is verbatim and publicly verifiable.

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Jordan MasonUS · Oct 3, 2024
Trustpilot

Ateef went above and beyond

Ateef went above and beyond. Instead of just diagnosing the problem, he manually installed items and reconfigured the .htaccess file correctly. That's not just customer service, that's hard-core IT support.

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WilsonWuUS · Dec 26, 2024
Trustpilot

Exceptional Support from Ateef

Ateef was incredibly helpful and attentive throughout our conversation. What stood out to me was Ateef's willingness to troubleshoot the issues rather than simply directing me to a backup restoration, which would have incurred additional costs. He clearly outlined the specific problems related to my PHP application, helping me understand what needed to be addressed with my development team.

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JJ ZamoraUS · Nov 18, 2024
Trustpilot

FAST, Kind and informative

Very professional, Kind and FAST. Ateef helped me understand the problem and solved it for me. What was a 2 hour problem for him took less than 20 minutes.

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Gavin VercoeDE · Dec 24, 2024
Trustpilot

Great Help by Ateef Sheikh on Xmas Eve

It's Xmas eve and my website went down due to a conflict between 2 plugins. Ateef Sheikh came to my rescue. He went over and above what he needed to to help me get the site back live. This is super great service and why I keep using Hostgator.

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Tamra StallingsUS · Dec 5, 2024
Trustpilot

Ateef persevered

I had issues with logging into my wordpress dashboard. Ateef worked long and hard to root out the cause, an infected file deep in a sub folder.

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Jayne BenjaminGB · Oct 29, 2024
Trustpilot

Succeeded where others failed

Ateef succeeded where all the previous chat advisors failed! Thank you so much Ateef.

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Annisa YansafAU · Nov 14, 2024
Trustpilot

Thank you Ateef!

I've talked with 3 agents today, and Ateef is the only one who managed to resolve the problem. A great experience with hostgator!

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NLStudio LLCUS · Dec 26, 2024
Trustpilot

Customer Care Rep: Ateef Sheikh

Ateef Sheikh was extremely knowledgeable and helpful, not only in resolving my issue but further assisting and educating me on features and options available for my account. Thank you Ateef very much for your time and patience!

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Brittany LoveUS · Dec 20, 2024
Trustpilot

Very helpful with my SSL

Ateef Sheikh was very helpful with installing my SSL for me for my website. Did it very quickly and was very kind and professional.

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Jennifer SchumanUS · Nov 1, 2024
Trustpilot

Ateef did a great job

Ateef did a great job helping me re-locate my Wordpress website from one folder to the main folder of my website and connected it to a new domain name. Thank you for the great help!

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SarahUS · Nov 12, 2024
Trustpilot

Thank you Ateef!

Both times my problems were resolved quickly and efficiently. Ateef, one of the agents, even gave me tips on how to prevent the issue from happening again. Overall, I'm very satisfied!

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Tim MardenUS · Jan 1, 2025
Trustpilot

Resolved my issues quickly

Ateef was able to resolve my issues quickly and without a lot of back and forth. I hate doing this kind of stuff but his patience with me is appreciated.

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Certifications & Achievements

Professional training, skill validations, and hackathon achievements

Anthropic

Claude Code 101

Anthropic

Anthropic

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations

Anthropic

Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 AI Foundations Associate

Oracle

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Engineer Digital Badge

Google Cloud

TryHackMe

Pentesting Path, Hands-on Labs

TryHackMe

Google

Finalist, Google Agentic AI Day Hackathon 2025

Google

Great Learning

Microsoft Excel

Great Learning · Issued Feb 2025

Walmart Global Tech

Advanced Software Engineering Program

Walmart Global Tech · Issued Jul 2023

Cognizant

Agile Methodology Virtual Experience Program

Cognizant · Issued Jul 2023

Accenture

Developer and Technology Virtual Experience Programme

Accenture · Issued Jul 2023

Goldman Sachs

Software Engineering Experience Program

Goldman Sachs · Issued Mar 2023

Google

The Fundamentals of Digital Marketing

Google · Issued Dec 2021