AI Engineering
Designing and shipping production LLM systems — from prompt architecture to evaluation harnesses and cost-aware serving.
LLMsOpenAIAnthropicEvalsGuardrails
Outcome · Reliable AI features that survive contact with real users.
Dublin, Ireland · Available for select engagements
Building IntelligentEnterprise Data Platforms
I help enterprises turn sprawling, messy data estates into intelligent, AI-powered platforms that scale — pairing 15+ years of data engineering depth with a builder's obsession for autonomous, agentic systems.
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About
I build the data foundations that intelligent enterprises run on.
For more than fifteen years I've worked at the seam where raw data becomes business advantage — designing the platforms, pipelines, and architectures that let global organisations trust their numbers and act on them in real time. My path has taken me from Mumbai and Pune to Manchester, London, and now Dublin, and across insurance, financial services, and enterprise technology.
In recent years my focus has shifted to the next frontier: autonomous, agentic AI. I design systems where LLMs, RAG pipelines, and coordinated AI agents don't just answer questions — they do the work: generating documentation, enforcing data quality, and running pipelines end to end. Frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, and MCP are my current toolkit for turning that vision into production reality.
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What I bring to the table
Deep specialisation across the modern data and AI stack — from enterprise architecture to autonomous agents.
Agentic AI
Building autonomous agents that plan, use tools, and coordinate to complete multi-step engineering work without a human in the loop.
LangGraphCrewAIMCPTool-use
Outcome · Systems that do the work, not just describe it.
Data Engineering
Metadata-driven pipelines and frameworks that ingest, transform, and serve data reliably at enterprise scale.
PythonSQLdbtAirflowSpark
Outcome · Pipelines that stay correct as volume 10×'s.
Enterprise Architecture
Lakehouse, medallion, and event-driven architectures designed for governance, observability, and long-term scale.
LakehouseMedallionEvent-drivenGovernance
Outcome · Foundations teams can build on for a decade.
Snowflake
Performance-tuned, cost-optimised Snowflake platforms with secure data sharing and warehouse governance.
SnowflakeSnowparkStreamsTasks
Outcome · Faster queries at a fraction of the spend.
Cloud Platforms
Cloud-native data platforms on AWS and Azure — infrastructure as code, serverless, and secure by default.
AWSAzureIaCServerless
Outcome · Elastic platforms that scale to demand.
Selected Work
Projects that shipped
A selection of platforms and systems I've architected and delivered.
EGD
Data PlatformEnterprise Global Data Platform
A unified, governed data foundation for a global enterprise.
SnowflakeAWSPythondbt
ADQ
Agentic AIAI Data Quality Agent
An autonomous agent that detects, explains, and remediates data issues.
LangGraphPythonSnowflakeLLMs
MEF
Data EngineeringMetadata-Driven ETL Framework
Config-over-code ingestion that scales to hundreds of sources.
PythonSQLAirflowSnowflake
ERA
RAGEnterprise RAG Assistant
A grounded assistant over the organisation's internal knowledge.
RAGVector DBEmbeddingsLLMs
ADE
Agentic AIAgentic Data Engineering Platform
Where AI agents build and operate the data platform itself.
CrewAILangGraphMCPPython
Testimonials
Trusted by the people I've built with
“One of the sharpest data architects I've worked with. Zubair sees the whole system — he'll fix the immediate problem while quietly re-designing the thing so it never happens again.”
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Engineering Manager
Global Insurance Leader
Let's build something intelligent together.
Whether you're modernising a data platform or bringing agentic AI into production, I'd love to hear what you're working on.