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Ash Lane

Ash Lane

AI Transformation Engineer

Professional Summary

AI transformation engineer focused on practical enterprise adoption: identifying operational bottlenecks, redesigning workflows, and shipping AI-assisted systems that teams can actually use. I bridge strategy and implementation across discovery, data/process readiness, agentic workflows, integrations, operator interfaces, rollout plans, and governance. The common thread is turning messy business process into controlled, measurable, AI-enabled operating capability.

Core Skills

Opportunity Mapping

  • AI readiness assessments, workflow audits, pain-point mapping, and value-case prioritisation
  • Separating process, data, tooling, and adoption blockers before choosing an AI pattern
  • Building transformation roadmaps that move from pilot to production capability

Workflow Redesign

  • Operational process mapping across sales, marketing, delivery, planning, media, device, and admin work
  • Human approval, escalation, and audit designs for sensitive or high-impact decisions
  • Data contracts, service boundaries, and ownership models for AI-enabled workflows

Implementation Delivery

  • Cloud-native applications, APIs, queues, storage, dashboards, and internal tools
  • LLM systems using structured outputs, retrieval, classification, summarisation, and routing
  • Integration patterns across CRM, messaging, analytics, product, and operational systems

Change & Adoption

  • Operator training, runbooks, stakeholder alignment, and handover rituals
  • Success metrics tied to cycle time, decision quality, error reduction, and throughput
  • Governance practices that keep transformation work grounded in business outcomes

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

AI Transformation Engineer / Platform Lead

Topolo Technology Inc

Mar 2022 – Present Global / Remote

Turned fragmented business operations into connected AI-ready workflows, platform services, and adoption paths for a multi-product software ecosystem.

  • Identified high-leverage automation opportunities across sales, CRM, planning, support, media, device operations, admin, billing, developer onboarding, and go-to-market workflows.
  • Converted operational processes into platform capabilities with shared identity, service boundaries, tenant-aware data models, deployment manifests, and repeatable delivery patterns.
  • Designed AI-assisted workflows with practical governance: human approval, traceable outputs, constrained tool access, prompt/version notes, and clear escalation paths.
  • Built cloud-native applications and control surfaces that connected strategy, workflow design, implementation, operator adoption, and measurable business outcomes.
  • Maintained documentation, implementation playbooks, and CI/CD runbooks so transformation work could move from experiment to repeatable operating capability.

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, reporting, and operational workflows.
  • Translated kitchen, logistics, customer-service, and marketing constraints into software and automations that reduced manual effort and operational error.
  • Connected campaign, CRM, order, and product data so decisions could move faster across operations, marketing, and delivery teams.
  • Shipped customer and internal tools across Flutter, Laravel/Vue, lifecycle messaging, analytics, and decision-support workflows.

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 event technology platforms into the Middle East market.

  • Drove consultative discovery, tailored demos, workflow mapping, and product-qualified opportunities for enterprise and mid-market event teams.
  • Partnered with product, SDR, and implementation teams to turn pipeline signals, customer constraints, and regional requirements into successful deployments.
  • Built credibility with both commercial and technical stakeholders by connecting event operations, integrations, reporting, and adoption outcomes.

Technical Skills

Transformation Methods

Workflow audits, AI readiness scoring, roadmap design, implementation playbooks, governance models, adoption planning, success metrics.

AI & Data Patterns

Structured outputs, retrieval, classification, summarisation, routing, CRM enrichment, event-driven workflows, analytics feedback loops.

Delivery Stack

Node/TypeScript, React, Astro, Next.js, Flutter/Dart, Laravel/Vue/PHP, Firebase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, serverless APIs, dashboards, docs, and runbooks.

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.