Builder · Many lanes · Too curious to pick one

Usman Aslam

Builder with a multidimensional record.

I've done DevRel, GTM, automations, writing, and community work, usually at the same time. The throughline is simple: I like making things, and I'm too curious to stop at one lane.

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01Profile

I build things. Mostly because I want to know if they'll work. A lot of what I've made started as a "wonder if I can" on a random evening and turned into something people actually used. That's basically my whole career in one sentence.

These days the things I build are agentic systems: AI that takes real, scoped actions across connected tools instead of just talking back at you. I care a lot about getting the boring parts right, secure access, a human checking the high-stakes calls, because a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer. But I'm not only an "AI person." I've written, run communities, owned go-to-market, and shipped websites and dashboards. I'm hard to put in one box, and I've stopped trying.

I didn't follow a straight line. I spent my Electrical Engineering years figuring out what I actually wanted to do, and the answer turned out to be all of it: growth, DevRel, ecosystem partnerships, and engineering. Along the way I wrote tech columns that got picked up by Yahoo!, Google News, and Medium's The Startup. Kept building the whole time. Views and opinions are my own.

What I Do
Build agentic systems & AI automations
What I Build
Systems that take real actions, not just text
How I Build
Security-first, with a human in the loop
Range
Agents, automation, DevRel, writing & community
02Practice
/ 01

Action-Taking AI Agents

Agentic systems that do things: multi-step tool calls across connected services, built on n8n with Claude and OpenAI, not just text generation.

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Secure Integrations

Scoped, least-privilege, multi-tenant access patterns: OAuth, MCP, webhooks, and audit logging where a confident wrong answer is the failure that matters most.

/ 03

Human-in-the-Loop

Confidence thresholds and review checkpoints so uncertain or high-stakes cases always route to a person before anything irreversible happens.

/ 04

GTM & DevRel

Developer experience, technical docs and GitBook references, SEO and CMS-driven connector pages, and the launch motion that turns a complex product into something builders adopt.

/ 05

Systems & Automation

Notion, Zapier, and n8n systems that quietly run operations: onboarding, segmentation, lifecycle automation, all of it saving real time and money.

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Community & Partnerships

Regional leadership for Notion, Slack, Startup Grind, and Microsoft, plus partnerships locked with Slack, Notion, and Salesforce.

03Stack & Skills
AI & Agentic Infrastructure
Model Context Protocol (MCP)Action-Taking AgentsMulti-User Agentic WorkflowsClaude / Anthropic APIsOpenAI APIsPrompt EngineeringHuman-in-the-Loop GuardrailsLangBaseAWS Bedrock AgentCoreBot Framework Architecture
Security & Integration
Scoped / Least-Privilege AccessMulti-Tenant AuthOAuthREST APIs & WebhooksAudit LoggingSecure System IntegrationData Pipelines & SegmentationData Handling
Build & Code
C++JavaScriptReactHTML / CSSGitHubWebflowCMS ArchitectureNetlifyVercel
04Leadership
Startup Grind
APAC Director
Asia-Pacific
Notion
Regional User Group Leader
Middle East
Slack
Chapter Leader
APAC Region
Microsoft Learn
Regional Leader
EMEA
05Selected Work
01
Multi-Platform Bot Framework
A stateless, platform-agnostic bot shell with swappable adapters for Slack, Teams, and Discord. Routes all auth and tool access through a central scoped-access layer instead of storing credentials locally. Led to a Salesforce partnership.
Agentic / MCP
02
Multi-User n8n Agents
Agentic systems on n8n that take real actions across connected services with scoped, per-user access. Orchestrates multi-step tool calls with human-in-the-loop guardrails, not just text generation.
Automation
03
Production Site: Webflow, CMS & SEO
Built a marketing site end to end: React-embedded multi-page build, a CMS powering 90+ connector pages, BrandFetch logo integration, and accessibility work that lifted the AIM score from 7.8 to 9.1.
Build / SEO
04
Agentic Screening Application
An agent that reviews applications for depth and clarity with an algorithmic rating system and final human approval. Deployed for the 10Pearls FYP Accelerator with automated stakeholder emails.
AI / Human-in-loop
05
Remote Internship System
End-to-end Notion and Zapier system managing 150+ interns with automated onboarding, task assignment, and notifications. Saved roughly $2,000/month and earned 10Pearls Employee of the Month.
Systems
06
MCP Hackathon: Build the Agentic Layer
Organized an in-person, three-track hackathon with a structured judging rubric, master planning sheet, sponsor materials, and participant onboarding flows.
Community
06Recognition
Microsoft MVP Nominee · Microsoft Learn, EMEA
Employee of the Month, June 2024 · 10Pearls
NUST SEECS Industrial Advisory Board, 2025–26
Syndicated to Yahoo!, Google News & The Startup

Say hi

If you're building something interesting, or just want to talk shop about agents, automation, or where this all goes next, my inbox is open.