ASHRAF SYED
Mansfield
Summary
Seasoned AI Automation Consultant and Cloud Data Engineer with over 20 years of experience in designing and deploying large-scale data solutions and automation workflows. Expertise in end-to-end AI automation, cloud-native architectures on Azure, and big data pipelines utilizing Databricks, Delta Lake, and Azure Data Factory. Proven track record in system architecture, ETL design, and data integration, enhancing operational efficiency and business decision-making. Founder of multiple AI and data ventures, adept at mentoring teams and translating business needs into technical solutions.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Founder & AI Automation Consultant / Data Engineer
JustMyBooks.com • JustMyAiAgency.com • JustAboutData.com
11.2024 - Current
- Designed and deployed production-ready AI automation workflows using n8n, delivering end-to-end solutions across document processing, lead generation, email automation, and voice agents.
- Built an AI-driven Document Processing Agent to extract structured data from invoices, receipts, and business cards (PDFs and images) using OCR and LLMs; stored, cleaned, and normalized data in PostgreSQL and Excel for analytics and reporting.
- Processed 54 real customer invoices to identify price changes for identical items over time, enabling actionable business insights through dashboards and structured datasets.
- Developed a Lead Generation AI Agent capable of scraping web data by country, city, ZIP code, and custom search criteria, capturing names, addresses, and phone numbers; automated storage in PostgreSQL and Google Sheets for downstream sales workflows.
- Created an AI-powered Email Management and Customer Support system, leveraging a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) knowledge base to automatically answer customer inquiries using company-specific documentation and Gmail integration.
- Implemented a Voice-based AI Agent using Eleven Labs for appointment scheduling, reminders, and confirmation emails, reducing manual follow-ups and no-shows.
- Delivered client-facing AI solutions that improved operational efficiency, data accuracy, and decision-making through automation and intelligent workflows.
Sr. Cloud Data Engineer
TCS – Tata Consulting Services
01.2022 - 11.2024
- Enhanced Power BI dashboards by transforming corporate data lake inputs.
- Streamlined flight capacity planning by consolidating data from multiple Excel tabs.
- Developed Databricks workflow clusters for integration into CI/CD pipelines.
- Translated business requirements into actionable technical specifications for projects.
- Optimized Databricks workflows, reducing execution time through parallel task processing.
- Led and mentored junior data engineers, fostering their professional development.
Cloud Data Architect / Engineer
MTS Technology Solutions (Code North)
04.2019 - 01.2020
- Optimized data ingestion workflows by designing cloud-native pipelines on Azure.
- Implemented automated monitoring systems for structured flat files and streaming feeds.
- Ingested Kafka streaming data into Delta Lake using Databricks for analysis.
- Built aggregate datasets from streaming data, enhancing data accessibility and usability.
- Streamlined data processing in Azure SQL Database and Cosmos DB with ADF v2.
Azure Data Architect (Consulting / Project-Based)
Agilishare Solutions Group, LLC
02.2018 - 04.2019
- Migrated on-premises data to Azure Data Lake using Azure Data Factory solutions.
- Developed big data pipelines with Azure Data Lake and Analytics tools for analysis.
- Created IoT data ingestion pipelines, capturing sensor data via Azure IoT Hub.
- Executed end-to-end analytics pipelines utilizing Databricks, Delta Lake, and Power BI.
- Designed solutions for effective data migration and analytics across various projects.
Senior Data Architect / Senior Solution Architect / Development DBA
Xerox Corporation
08.2000 - 05.2017
- Architected, administered, and supported enterprise relational databases (Oracle 8i–11g, Microsoft SQL Server) across development, test, and production environments.
- Designed and maintained high-availability and disaster recovery solutions using Oracle Data Guard (Active/Standby) across geographically distributed data centers.
- Built and supported large-scale supply chain and enterprise data warehouse platforms with strict performance, availability, and data integrity requirements.
- Designed and implemented ETL pipelines and data integration workflows to ingest, transform, and synchronize data across heterogeneous systems.
- Developed Oracle Warehouse Builder mappings and process flow to enable scalable, reliable data ingestion and transformation.
- Served as subject matter expert for asynchronous messaging and system integration; introduced RabbitMQ to deliver highly available, scalable message-driven architectures supporting 24/7 operations.
- Designed database-backed applications and integration services to support high-volume transactional and messaging workloads.
- Led technical initiatives for application development teams, including database architecture, performance tuning, capacity planning, backup/recovery, and operational best practices.
- Partnered with business and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into logical and physical data models and production-ready system designs.
Education
M.S. - Computer Science
SUNY Albany
M.S. - Solid State Physics
Lakehead University
CanadaM.S. - Nuclear Physics
University of Karachi
PakistanSkills
- Team leadership
- Strategic thinking
- Marketing
- Entrepreneurial and innovative
Certification
- Data Analysis & Visualization with Python — Microsoft (2025)
- Artificial Intelligence Essentials v2 — IBM (2025)
- Generative AI: Prompt Engineering — IBM (2025)
- Generative AI: Introduction & Applications — IBM (2025)
- Trifacta Data Deputy, Data Wrangler, Admin — Trifacta Academy (2021)
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Cloud Platform (2018)
- Azure Private Cloud Administrator Associate — Texas Premier Technology Institute (2018)
Timeline
Founder & AI Automation Consultant / Data Engineer
JustMyBooks.com • JustMyAiAgency.com • JustAboutData.com
11.2024 - Current
Sr. Cloud Data Engineer
TCS – Tata Consulting Services
01.2022 - 11.2024
Cloud Data Architect / Engineer
MTS Technology Solutions (Code North)
04.2019 - 01.2020
Azure Data Architect (Consulting / Project-Based)
Agilishare Solutions Group, LLC
02.2018 - 04.2019
Senior Data Architect / Senior Solution Architect / Development DBA
Xerox Corporation
08.2000 - 05.2017
M.S. - Solid State Physics
Lakehead University
M.S. - Nuclear Physics
University of Karachi
M.S. - Computer Science
SUNY Albany