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Ash Lane

Ash Lane

Agentic AI Engineer

Professional Summary

Agentic AI engineer and product builder who turns ambiguous workflows into production-grade agents, automations, and operator tools. Hands-on across LLM orchestration, retrieval patterns, prompt/eval loops, browser and messaging automations, Node/TypeScript APIs, React, serverless platforms, Firebase, SQL/data pipelines, and cloud tooling. I focus on useful systems that ship: agents with clear scope, human review points, observability, and business outcomes attached.

Core Skills

Agent Design

  • Task decomposition, tool selection, memory/context strategy
  • Human-in-the-loop review, escalation paths, and safety boundaries
  • Prompt systems, structured outputs, evals, and regression checks

Workflow Automation

  • Browser, CRM, WhatsApp, email, sourcing, and ops automations
  • Event-driven pipelines, queues, webhooks, and background jobs
  • Operational dashboards, audit trails, and runbooks

LLM Systems

  • Retrieval, embeddings, classification, summarisation, and routing
  • Model selection, latency/cost trade-offs, and fallback-free architecture
  • Typed contracts, test fixtures, and data-quality feedback loops

Production Delivery

  • Cloud-native agents, APIs, storage, queues, scheduled jobs, and operator tools
  • React/TypeScript operator interfaces and internal tooling
  • Metrics, incident paths, access control, and documentation

Director-Level Scope

  • Director-level ownership across product roadmap, delivery governance, stakeholder communication, vendor selection, budget trade-offs, and cross-functional operating cadence.
  • Experience leading product, engineering, operations, GTM, implementation, and partner teams through 0-to-1 launches, regional expansion, and platform scaling.
  • Translate founder, board, and executive priorities into OKRs, portfolio plans, hiring needs, delivery metrics, risk management, and customer-facing execution.

Professional Experience

Founder & Agentic Systems Builder

Topolo Technology Inc

Mar 2022 – Present Global / Remote

Design and build AI-assisted workflows, platform services, and operator tools across an edge-native business software ecosystem.

  • Built agent-assisted workflows for CRM enrichment, roadmap analysis, documentation, sourcing, support operations, media workflows, internal delivery, and product intelligence.
  • Specified Node/TypeScript, React, Astro, Cloudflare Workers, queue, D1/KV/R2/Vectorize, Durable Object, and SQL-backed architectures for deployable AI tooling and workflow backends.
  • Structured shared identity, OAuth/OIDC, service-client auth, scoped JWT/JWKS authorization, tenant data, and API contracts so agents operate inside explicit platform boundaries.
  • Designed human review loops, traceability, prompt/version documentation, tool access controls, and escalation paths for high-impact AI workflows.
  • Used Claude Code, Codex, MCP, LLM prompts, embeddings, retrieval, structured outputs, and browser automation to accelerate delivery while keeping implementation inspectable.

Automation & Product Systems Lead (Founder)

Fresh Ventures – Livefreshr, JustCook, JustFeed

Mar 2014 – Present Dubai, UAE

Owned product and automation systems for a vertically integrated food tech stack spanning consumer, operational, and SaaS layers.

  • Designed and implemented JustCook SaaS, an end-to-end platform for meal kit operations including orders, inventory, recipes, procurement, routing, analytics, and operational workflows.
  • Shipped customer and internal tools spanning Flutter, Laravel/Vue, reporting, lifecycle messaging, and decision-support workflows.
  • Translated kitchen, logistics, customer-service, and marketing constraints into automations that reduced manual effort and error rates.
  • Connected campaign, CRM, and product data so operational and marketing decisions could be acted on quickly.

Solution Consultant / Project Manager

XpertLearning

Feb 2013 – Sep 2016 UAE

Implemented enterprise learning and talent management platforms, bridging client workflows, technical integration, and vendor product constraints.

  • Served as the first Cornerstone OnDemand certified solution consultant in the GCC, leading discovery, configuration, integrations, and deployments for major regional clients.
  • Owned RFP responses, solution demonstrations, admin training, workflow mapping, and post-launch optimisation for performance, learning, and talent products.
  • Converted real-world client usage patterns into vendor enhancement requests, reporting improvements, and operational playbooks.

Mid-Market Sales Manager / TPP Partnerships Manager

Cvent

Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 Dubai, UAE

Brought a product-minded and data-led approach to selling Cvent's event tech platforms into the Middle East market.

  • Drove product-qualified opportunities through consultative discovery, tailored demos, and clear mapping of event workflows to platform capabilities.
  • Partnered with product, SDR, and implementation teams to turn pipeline, usage signals, and customer constraints into successful deployments.

Technical Skills

AI Systems

LLM orchestration, prompt design, structured outputs, RAG/retrieval, embeddings, classification, eval loops, MCP tool integration, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and human review workflows.

Core Technologies

Node/TypeScript, React, Astro, Next.js, Flutter/Dart, Laravel/PHP, Vue, REST/GraphQL APIs, Firebase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, queues, Durable Objects, Cloudflare Workers/D1/KV/R2, Vercel, and Netlify.

Automation Domains

CRM enrichment, LinkedIn and web research, WhatsApp flows, ops dashboards, roadmap analysis, messaging, analytics, and internal tooling.

SaaS Tools & Platforms

CRM, GTM & Lifecycle

Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Mailchimp, Braze, Customer.io, WhatsApp Business API, Stripe, Google Ads, and Meta Ads.

Product, Analytics & Support

Jira, Linear, Notion, Confluence, Figma, Airtable, GA4, Looker Studio, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Hotjar, Intercom, and Zendesk.

Delivery, Cloud & AI

Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, AWS, Google Cloud/Firebase, Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, VPS/cPanel, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sentry, Datadog, OpenAI API, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, MCP, RAG, vector search, prompt/eval workflows, and agent tooling.

Selected Projects

  • Topolo platform: Edge-native business software ecosystem spanning identity/OIDC, developer onboarding, CRM, roadmapping, billing/payments, AI gateway, notifications, admin tooling, commerce, workflow automation, media operations, and customer support.
  • Platform infrastructure: Cloudflare Workers architecture with generated deployment manifests, staging/production targets, service-to-service auth, scoped JWT/JWKS authorization, CI/CD, D1/KV/R2/Vectorize/Queues/Durable Objects, and deployment orchestration tooling.
  • JustCook SaaS and JustFeed: Food-tech operations and mobile subscription platform covering ordering, inventory, recipes, procurement, routing, payments, lifecycle messaging, and reporting.