Farihan Sodiq — Backend Engineer and AI Automation Specialist

What I Work With

Skills and Tools

Two sides of the same coin. I build the backend and automate the workflow.

n8n

Multi-step workflow automation with full code flexibility

Advanced

Make.com

Visual scenario builder for connecting apps and APIs

Advanced

Airtable

Data layer, dashboards, and approval workflows

Advanced

OpenAI / LLMs

AI-powered processing, extraction, and generation

Advanced

Apify

Web scraping and structured lead extraction at scale

Advanced

Puppeteer

Browser automation, scraping, and end-to-end testing

Advanced

Anthropic / Claude

Advanced reasoning and AI agent development

Proficient

Vapi

AI voice automation and conversational agents

Proficient

Zapier

App integration and trigger-based automation

Proficient

Claude Code

AI-assisted development and agentic workflows

Proficient

Slack

Team automation, bot integrations, and alerts

Proficient

Microsoft Apps

Power Automate, Office 365, and Teams integrations

Proficient

Google Apps

Gmail, Sheets, Docs, Drive, and Calendar integrations

Proficient

Google App Scripts

Lightweight automation across Google Workspace

Proficient

Firecrawl

AI-ready web scraping and content crawling

Proficient

NestJS

Enterprise-grade Node.js framework for scalable APIs

Advanced

Node.js

Server-side JavaScript for high-throughput services

Advanced

TypeScript

Typed JavaScript for safe, scalable systems

Advanced

C# / .NET

Enterprise backend and API development

Advanced

AWS

EC2, S3, ECS, Fargate, SES, CloudWatch and more

Advanced

MongoDB

Document database for flexible, schema-free data

Advanced

ExpressJS

Fast, minimal Node.js web framework

Advanced

ReactJS

Frontend UI development and component architecture

Proficient

GraphQL

Flexible API query language and schema design

Proficient

PostgreSQL

Relational database for structured, relational data

Proficient

GCP

Google Cloud Platform services and infrastructure

Proficient

Azure

Microsoft cloud platform for enterprise deployments

Proficient

Kafka

Event streaming and distributed message queuing

Proficient

Google ADK

Agent Development Kit for building AI systems

Proficient

What I've Built

Featured Projects

Real problems, real systems. Each of these replaced a manual process that was wasting someone's time. Click any card to see the full case study.

Invoice Inbox Automation

A real estate agency was drowning in vendor invoices every week. Built an automation that monitors Gmail, extracts data from PDFs using AI, and logs everything into Google Sheets automatically.

Make.comGmailPDF.coOpenAIGoogle Sheets

Reporting and Dashboard Automation

An ops team was manually pulling data from three systems and calculating KPIs by hand at year-end. Built a one-click Make.com workflow that does it all and populates a live Airtable dashboard.

Make.comAirtableGoogle Sheets

Proposal Generation and Delivery Automation

Sales teams were copy-pasting old proposals after every discovery call. Built an n8n workflow that takes form inputs, generates a polished proposal with AI, routes it through approval, and sends it to the client.

n8nAirtableOpenAIGoogle DocsGoogle Forms

Content Generation and Publishing Automation

A marketing agency was manually writing and adapting content across LinkedIn, X, and email. Built an n8n pipeline with a custom frontend where a manager picks a draft and the system handles formatting and publishing.

n8nOpenAILinkedInX (Twitter)Email

Lead Generation and Outreach Automation

Outbound for an AI agency was fully manual: find leads, research companies, validate emails, write cold messages one by one. Built an n8n system that handles all of it and delivers personalised, ready-to-send outreach sequences directly into Airtable.

n8nAirtableApifyBouncerOpenAI

Background

About Me

I'm Farihan, a backend engineer and AI automation specialist based in Lagos. I hold a First Class degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Ilorin, graduating as one of the top two in my class. Over the past 3 years I've built APIs and backend systems for fintech and enterprise clients, including PwC Nigeria and US-based startups Bundul and Vzy.

Alongside that, I design and build automation systems. Not because I switched tracks, but because I found the most impactful thing a technical person can do for a business is look at what's running on human hours and make it run on logic instead. I'm equally at home writing a NestJS microservice as I am wiring together an n8n workflow.

I approach every project the same way. Understand the process first, then design the system. I care about the output being reliable, not just clever. If it breaks at 3am or produces wrong data, it doesn't count.