Salman Zulfiqar Shaikh: AI Agent & Automation Engineer in Karachi, Pakistan
I turn your team's busywork into systems that run themselves. AI agents that answer your customers, voice bots that take your orders and pipelines that move your data. All live, all in production.
Salman Zulfiqar Shaikh (also written Salman Zulfikar, Salman Shaikh or Salman Sheikh) is an AI agent developer, automation engineer and full-stack developer based in Karachi, Pakistan. He works with businesses in Pakistan, the Gulf and the US. He is currently studying at UBIT, University of Karachi.
What I build
- AI agents for operations that read requests, pull facts from a business's own systems and finish the job.
- Voice agents that answer calls, take orders and book appointments around the clock.
- Automation pipelines across email, WhatsApp, CRMs and databases.
- Full-stack web apps with React, Next.js, Node.js, FastAPI and Python.
Experience
Manixly: Founder (Oct 2026 – present)
AI studio building agents that take real work off a team's plate: operations agents, voice agents and automation pipelines, with guardrails and human approval built in.
Eocean: Software Engineer (Dec 2025 – present)
Pakistan's largest CPaaS company, serving banks, telecoms and fintechs. Built a data pipeline processing 60M records a day across 40 accounts; an AI support helpdesk on Gmail and Slack that cut first reply from 15 minutes to 43 seconds; a WhatsApp ops agent that turns plain English into SQL and MongoDB queries; and a Metabase analytics platform for 70+ IVR clients.
Freelance: AI & Full-Stack Engineer (2024 – present)
Meta API integration and AI layer for Animal Passport, which raised PKR 7M on Shark Tank Pakistan; a real estate lead funnel bringing in over $4K a month; AI calling agents for real estate businesses in Dubai; AI automations and full-stack products for clients in Pakistan, the Gulf and the US.
Projects
- PactPulse: AI contract analysis with agentic RAG chat. FastAPI, Next.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, Qdrant, Hugging Face, Gemini.
- SafeZone: WhatsApp-first emergency triage in English, Urdu and Roman Urdu. FastAPI, React, LangGraph, Supabase, DeepSeek, WhatsApp Business API, Groq, Python.
- DevEx: micro-SaaS marketplace with real-time chat. React, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Groq, WebSockets.
- Voice ordering agent: takes restaurant orders by phone and WhatsApp. n8n, ElevenLabs, Twilio, WhatsApp Business API, Supabase, Qdrant, OpenAI.
Skills
Languages: JavaScript, Python, TypeScript. AI and agents: LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, n8n, Claude Code, Agent SDK, voice AI, LiveKit, Hugging Face, MCP. Backend and data: Node.js, Express, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, vector databases, Redis. Frontend: Next.js, React, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Framer Motion. Tools and cloud: Git, Docker, AWS.
Contact
Email salmanzulfiqar04@gmail.com, message on WhatsApp or book a call. Elsewhere: GitHub, LinkedIn, X, Instagram. Resume (PDF).