Senior AI Automation Engineer & Technical Lead · London, UK

Mazaharul Islam

I make systems do the work.

I build AI agents, automation systems, and scalable backend infrastructure — eliminating manual work and unlocking operational leverage. 14+ years shipping software that runs itself.

14+
Years experience
100%
Upwork success
100+
Projects shipped
★ TR+
Top Rated Plus
Available for
AI Automation Engineer Technical Lead / Engineering Manager Backend Engineer Integration Engineer
Location
London, UK On-site, Hybrid or Remote
Requires Skilled Worker visa sponsorship
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What I Do

Primary · AI & Automation

AI Agents & Intelligent Automation

Building production AI agents — voice, chat, email triage, outreach automation — on OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Designing end-to-end automation systems that eliminate manual work at scale. One client saved 50–100 hours of manual work per week.

OpenAI Claude Voice Agents n8n Make.com Zapier
Core · Backend Engineering

Scalable Backend Systems

Designing and shipping high-throughput APIs, ETL pipelines, distributed systems, and data architecture. Built for reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.

Python Django Kafka PostgreSQL AWS Docker
Specialist · RPA

Robotic Process Automation

14+ years across all major RPA platforms — process automation, document processing, desktop and cloud flows, system integrations across enterprise environments.

UiPath Automation Anywhere Blue Prism Power Automate
Specialist · Integrations

Workflow & System Integration

Connecting business tools, automating operational workflows, and building integration layers between APIs, CRMs, ERPs, and third-party platforms.

REST APIs Webhooks Scrapy Puppeteer Playwright
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Experience

Beep System Current
Aug 2025 – Present
Software Engineering Team Lead

Leading a team of engineers for a POS and card machine solutions company — owning the technical roadmap, architecture decisions, and day-to-day engineering delivery. Managing sprint planning, code reviews, and mentoring junior developers.

Freelance Consulting
Jan 2025 – Jul 2025
Automation & AI Engineer (via Upwork)

Continued freelance consulting between roles — delivering AI agent implementations, workflow automation, and backend integrations for clients across e-commerce and fintech.

Qogita · Series B €80M
Jan 2022 – Dec 2024
Backend Engineer — Seller Integrations Lead

Architected the seller integration platform from the ground up at a global B2B wholesale marketplace. Led a team building automated pipelines for supplier onboarding, inventory sync, and order processing across global markets.

Built AI-augmented ETL framework using GPT + Pandas — eliminated weeks of manual data mapping per supplier integration
Upwork · Top Rated Plus
Jan 2012 – Present
Freelance Automation & AI Engineer

100+ projects across e-commerce, logistics, fintech, and marketing over 14 years. Built AI agents, RPA solutions, backend systems, and workflow automation for clients worldwide.

100% Job Success Score · Top Rated Plus — AI agents saving one client 50–100 hours of manual work per week
Blanket
Oct 2018 – Oct 2020
Senior Automation Engineer

Distributed headless browser pipeline across 70+ VMs on DigitalOcean. ML-enhanced data parsing from unstructured HTML. Real-time dashboard for operator-controlled worker scaling.

Etrends Trading LLC
Apr 2015 – Jun 2019
Software Engineer

Built automated price monitoring system processing 40,000+ SKUs every 3 hours with dynamic repricing logic.

30% month-on-month sales increase driven by automated repricing system
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Tech Stack

AI & Agents

OpenAI API
Anthropic Claude
Voice Agents (Retell, ElevenLabs)
Chat Agents
Email Automation
Prompt Engineering

Automation & Workflow

n8n
Make.com
Zapier
Power Automate
UiPath / Blue Prism
Relevance AI

Backend

Python
Django / DRF
FastAPI
Node.js / Express
PHP / Laravel
Celery

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
Kafka
BigQuery
Pandas / NumPy

Scraping & Integration

Scrapy
Puppeteer
Selenium / Playwright
REST APIs
Webhooks
GoHighLevel

Infrastructure

AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3)
Docker
GitHub Actions
DigitalOcean
CI/CD Pipelines

// open to opportunities

Let's build something that runs itself.

Looking for a Senior AI Automation Engineer or Technical Lead role where intelligent systems have real operational impact. London-based, open to on-site, hybrid or remote. Actively interviewing.