Asad Ikram

Freelance Data Engineer

CXG

Dec 2025 - Jan 2026 (2 months)

• Built production crawlers for global luxury fashion brands bypassing Akamai v3 and Cloudflare Turnstile; achieved 99%+ data completeness.

Lead Data Engineer

VendueTech

Jun 2025 - Jul 2025 (2 months)

• Led 3-engineer team building real-time auction data ingestion using Scrapy, Playwright, AWS Batch and Step Functions; bypassed CAPTCHA and anti-bot stacks. • Migrated full infrastructure Azure → AWS; implemented PySpark on EMR Serverless reducing data latency 40% across Bronze, Silver and Gold layers. • Designed idempotent pipeline with DynamoDB deduplication checkpoints ensuring exactly-once processing; integrated CloudWatch and SNS monitoring.

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Founder & Lead Data Engineer

ArtemisAI

Feb 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

• Built a Meta social data lakehouse from scratch (GitHub Actions → ECR → ECS Fargate → DynamoDB → S3), ingesting 30+ brand pages daily at scale. • Designed layered Redshift data warehouse (RDL → ODL → ADL) with Step Functions orchestration; enabled sub-second KPI reporting via QuickSight. • Deployed ECS-hosted ML sentiment-tagging and topic-labeling microservices; packaged ADL outputs as B2B subscription datasets. • Trained custom LLMs on engagement data; predictive trend models improved client content monetization by 40%. • Implemented self-healing infrastructure: EventBridge dead-letter queues, CloudWatch alarms and Twilio alerts — zero manual intervention. • Designed multi-tenant Redshift access layer with row-level security; enabled se

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Data Engineer Consultant

M+C Saatchi Fluency

Dec 2024 - Current (1 year 7 months)

• Architected end-to-end AWS data pipeline (GitHub Actions → ECR → ECS Fargate → EventBridge → Step Functions → S3 → AWS Glue → Athena) from zero to production in under 30 days. • Delivered ETL/ELT pipelines and SageMaker NLP sentiment analysis powering campaigns for Amazon, Nike, Ford, Reckitt and the UK Government. • Eliminated 100% of manual data collection via Scrapy with CAPTCHA bypass, reverse-engineering, proxy rotation and TLS fingerprint evasion. • Reduced infrastructure costs 35% by designing auto-scaling ECS container architecture replacing legacy VMs. • Built real-time CloudWatch monitoring and Slack alerting with Retool data freshness dashboards; maintained 99%+ pipeline uptime.

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Data Engineer Consultant

Prefe

Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 (4 months)

• Rebuilt legacy scrapers into modern Scrapy architecture with middleware, item pipelines and retry logic; reduced scraper failure rate 60%. • Mentored 2 junior engineers on anti-bot evasion; established code review standards adopted team-wide.

Data Engineer Consultant

FIX.com

May 2023 - Current (3 years 2 months)

• Designed Scrapy + Scrapyd pipelines processing 50M+ data points from 200+ e-commerce sites; expanded product catalog 50% in 12 months. • Optimised distributed Scrapy Cluster on AWS ECS; cut crawl time 40% through async I/O tuning, connection pooling and smart retry logic. • Implemented residential proxy rotation across Bright Data, Oxylabs and Smartproxy with CloudWatch burn-rate monitoring and auto-failover. • Introduced Great Expectations data validation; automated schema drift detection, reducing bad data in production by 70%.

Senior Data Engineer

Dubizzle Labs

Feb 2022 - Aug 2024 (2 years 7 months)

• Led 3-engineer team owning 500+ regional web scrapers across MENA on EKS — CI/CD via GitHub Actions, Matillion ELT / AWS Glue (S3 → Athena → Redshift). • Redesigned layered data warehouse (RDL → ODL → ADL) for Propforce; improved ETL/ELT throughput 60%, directly driving record revenues. • Built competitor intelligence platform combining web scraping and DWH analytics; modelled Star Schema, Snowflake Schema and Dimensional data warehouse schemas. • Developed Elasticsearch data pipelines for property search; optimised query performance 50% via custom index mapping and sharding. • Reverse-engineered competitor mobile apps via Android Studio emulator MITM (HTTP Toolkit + Charles Proxy) to extract hidden REST and GraphQL APIs. • Introduced uni

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Senior Freelance Data Engineer

Fiverr Independent Consulting

Dec 2018 - Feb 2026 (7 years 3 months)

• Delivered 300+ web scraping and data engineering projects for global clients across 400+ websites; maintained <1% block rate through TLS evasion, GoLogin and behavioural mimicry. • Bypassed Akamai, Cloudflare, Datadome, PerimeterX, Kasada and F5 Shape Security for clients across e-commerce, real estate, finance and luxury sectors. • Deployed full-stack data products: Scrapy → ECS Fargate → S3 → Redshift DWH → Tableau / QuickSight dashboards for 50+ international clients.

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