Zain Ul Abiden
Automation & AI Solutions Engineer
I build automation and AI that make businesses run smarter.
For seven years I've been the person a top-10 accounting firm calls when a manual process needs to disappear, owning a production portfolio that processes tens of thousands of client documents a year. Now I'm pointing that same instinct at AI.
Selected work
Two systems I built and shipped for real clients. Both are under NDA, so what you see below uses fictional company names, people, and figures, recreated to match the real product screen for screen.
In production
A multi-tenant ERP, built from the ledger up
Running live for a mid-size import and trading business
This client was running the full cycle of buying and selling physical goods, purchase orders, multi-currency imports, multi-warehouse inventory, invoicing, out of spreadsheets and disconnected tools that never tied back to a real set of books.
I built the replacement as an actual double-entry accounting system underneath. Purchase orders in USD post correctly onto a single-currency ledger, landed costs split automatically across a shipment's line items, and every report reads live from the general ledger instead of being hand-maintained.
15+
financial reports generated live from the ledger
100%
of transactions posted automatically, double-entry
0
shared tables between tenants, fully isolated databases
Real double-entry accounting
Every transaction posts to a general ledger automatically, not just to a screen.
Multi-currency, single ledger
USD purchase orders convert cleanly onto books that stay in one currency.
Permission-gated, everywhere
Every route checks a real permission key, nothing is hardcoded to "admins only."
Built with NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Prisma, JWT + API keys.
In production
Real-time sales tracking for a floor that never stops moving
Running live for a phone-based dealer sales operation
This client runs a call-center-style sales floor: an agent gets a verbal yes and hands it to a closer, who finalizes the paperwork. The old process leaned on spreadsheets and group chats, so handoffs got lost and nobody had a real-time view of the day.
I built the platform around that exact handoff. Agents log a sale the moment they get the yes, closers work a live queue, and a commission engine tracks each sale through carrier activation and a chargeback window before it counts as confirmed, payable revenue.
3
roles live in one pipeline: agent, closer, admin
24/7
leaderboard running unattended, zero login
1
commission engine tracking activation through chargeback
Agent to closer handoff
A live pending queue with urgent flags and handoff notes, nothing sits silently.
Commission lifecycle tracking
The payable rate snapshots at activation, so later rate changes don't rewrite history.
Zero-login leaderboard
A public leaderboard built to run unattended on an office TV, all day.
Built with Next.js, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Recharts.
Shipped product
Kitchrix, a recipe app I built and shipped on my own
Kitchrix is a South Asian recipe app built around what's actually in your kitchen. It keeps a running pantry, matches recipes against it with a rules-based ranker, and uses an on-device AI architecture to generate new ones from a canonical ingredient vocabulary rather than a generic recipe database.
Built solo, end to end, with Expo, React Native, and TypeScript.
A little more personal
About me
I grew up in Pakistan and moved to the US in 2015, when I was 20. My bachelor's degree is actually in Film, which has nothing to do with what I do now on paper, but it taught me to think about how something gets put together piece by piece, and that turns out to matter a lot in automation too. I went back for a Master's in Information Systems once I knew this was the direction I wanted to take.
Free guide
How to use AI tools the smart way
Everything I've learned about branding yourself with AI, running projects inside AI tools without burning tokens re-explaining context, and using Claude Code without being intimidated by it. Free, right now.
Connect with me
Want guidance on how to get into the IT field? Want to connect and learn more about automation and automation tools? Want to collaborate on projects? Want to just talk about your passion for automation or anything really? Connect with me.