Hafiz Syed Shah Ali

AI Engineer | SOC Engineering & Security Automation

Professional Summary

AI Engineer from Lahore, Pakistan, focused on SOC engineering and security automation. I build automation systems, data pipelines and LLM agents for government and international clients using n8n, Zapier, Python, Databricks and Power BI, and I apply the same skills to security operations: detection and alerting workflows with IP enrichment and alert severity levels, Linux and Windows log analysis, and web application hardening. I publish a technical post every night in my security journal. Open to SOC Engineer and security automation roles.

Work Experience

Freelance

Upwork and direct clients | AI and automation solutions for international clients

1 yr

  1. Freelance AI Automation Engineer

    Lahore, Pakistan Remote Part-time

    Dec 2025 — Present1 yr
    • Delivering AI and automation projects end to end for international clients, from requirements to production — 10+ successful projects with a 100% Job Success Score on Upwork.
    • Building LLM agents and pipelines for recruitment screening, appointment booking over WhatsApp, AI candidate scoring in a Chrome extension, and vision-based desktop automation on Windows.
    • Automated e-commerce product listing by collecting product data from a source website and publishing it to the client's WooCommerce store.
    • Conducted a security review of a Chrome extension: reviewed its permissions, data storage and handling of user data, and hardened it to keep user data safe.

Electric Future (Revcharge)

EV charging company, Australia

6 mos

  1. AI Automation and Data Intelligence Engineer

    Australia Remote Contract

    Apr 2026 — Sep 20266 mos
    • Led a Databricks data-platform pilot end to end: proposal, Bronze/Silver/Gold pipelines and Genie self-service, plus a Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric comparison for leadership.
    • Automated sales, operations and finance pipelines with n8n and Zapier across WooCommerce and HubSpot, including the sales-to-installation process.
    • Built and audited Power BI dashboards for business and compliance reporting: fixed DAX and Power Query logic and documented each dashboard.
    • Traced production issues to root cause, such as duplicate orders and wrong invoices, and built cross-system reconciliation to catch missing records.
    • Supported security investigations: traced a suspected customer-data exposure to its source and verified a suspicious remote-access request before granting access.

Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB)

Government IT board, Punjab, Pakistan

2 yrs

  1. AI and Data Automation Engineer

    Lahore, Pakistan On-site Contract

    Aug 2024 — Jul 20262 yrs
    • Analysed Citizen Contact Center data to track service and complaint trends.
    • Built Power BI dashboards and SQL ETL pipelines for management reporting.
    • Developed predictive models with Python and scikit-learn to find patterns and forecast trends in contact-center data.
    • Automated recurring tasks such as file transfers and complaint handling with n8n.
    • Built AI chatbots for citizen services, including the chatbot for a province-wide public helpline.

Work Experience (continued)

Suite Dreams UK Limited

ERP (NetSuite) internship

4 mos

  1. ERP Solutions Intern (NetSuite)

    United Kingdom Remote Internship

    Jul 2023 — Oct 20234 mos
    • Customized NetSuite and automated ERP workflows with SuiteScript (JavaScript).

Projects

  • Secure RAG Assistant

    2026

    "Professor", the assistant on shahali.dev: answers questions about my work from public sources only, with source citations, rate limiting, prompt-injection defences and an OWASP LLM Top 10 threat model.

    • DeepSeek
    • OpenRouter
    • Gemini
    • RAG
    • OWASP LLM Top 10

  • Security CI Pipeline

    2026

    A custom gitleaks rule for Gmail app passwords, proven on a real leaked commit the default rules missed, plus Semgrep, npm audit, Dependabot and live security-header checks on every change.

    • GitHub Actions
    • gitleaks
    • Semgrep
    • DevSecOps

  • Vision-Based Desktop Automation Agent

    2026

    A Python agent that operates Windows applications and websites like a person, reading the Windows UI Automation tree and using an AI vision model only for judgment tasks such as answering form questions. Provider-agnostic, built as a freelance project.

    • Python
    • pywinauto
    • AI Vision
    • Automation

  • LinkedIn Recruitment Pipeline

    2026

    n8n and LLM pipeline for a recruitment client that screened 1,000+ candidate profiles at 90%+ accuracy and cut manual screening time by 90%. Built as a freelance project.

    • n8n
    • LLM
    • Automation

  • Teamther.ai Chrome Extension

    2026

    AI candidate scoring against job descriptions in English and French. Also carried out its security review: permissions, data storage and user-data handling.

    • Chrome Extension
    • LLM
    • Security Review

  • EchoCart (Final Year Project)

    FYP

    A voice-controlled AI shopping assistant for visually impaired users: a Flutter app with a FastAPI backend, Firebase authentication, a voice module, an admin panel and live product data from several Pakistani online stores.

    • Flutter
    • FastAPI
    • Firebase
    • Voice AI