Ibrahim Maher
Al-Bander

Experience

What I have actually been doing, day to day, for the last few years.

01

Social Media

Social Media Marketing Specialist

Help Tech Co. Ltd. · Erbil, IraqSep 2022 to present

This is the role I am proudest of. I took the company Facebook page from barely active to a page that actually gets people talking, growing it more than 500 percent in the process. I plan and run paid campaigns myself, and the last batch landed close to 100 percent ROI, which for a small company budget is not a small thing to pull off.

I also got tired of digging through Meta's ads manager every week to find decent audience targeting, so I built my own tool that surfaces hidden audience interest data. And since nobody enjoys writing the same KPI report by hand every Monday, I automated our weekly reporting with n8n so the numbers are ready before anyone asks for them.

• Content strategy
• Paid social
• Meta Ads
• Audience research
• KPI reporting

02

Accounting

Accounts & Inventory Officer

Help Tech Co. Ltd. · Erbil, IraqOct 2024 to present

I walked into this role with no chart of accounts and no real bookkeeping system in place, so I built one from scratch in QuickBooks. That meant setting up accounts payable and receivable, reconciling everything month over month, and clearing out a backlog that had been sitting untouched for a while. I also designed the inventory workflow the company still uses today, since there was not really one before.

• QuickBooks
• AP / AR
• Reconciliation
• Inventory systems

03

Operations

Assistant Sales Manager

Help Tech Co. Ltd. · Erbil, IraqJan 2022 to Oct 2024

Before I moved into accounts, I ran the procurement and vendor side of things: requesting quotes, negotiating with suppliers, and handling purchase orders from start to finish. It gave me a full picture of how a small business actually runs behind the scenes, which turned out to be useful for everything I do now.

• Procurement
• Vendor negotiation
• Purchase orders

04

AI Automation

Freelance AI Automation Developer

Self-employed, n8n workflowsJun 2025 to present

On the side, I build production automation workflows for clients using n8n, connecting things like OpenAI, Claude and Gemini to Google Workspace, Telegram and GoHighLevel. I write custom JavaScript function nodes when the built in ones are not enough, and I always validate against a schema and log everything, because an automation that fails silently is worse than no automation at all. Every workflow I hand off comes documented, so the client is never stuck if I am not around.

• n8n
• OpenAI / Claude / Gemini
• Google Workspace
• Telegram bots
• GoHighLevel

05

Social Media

Social Media Marketing Specialist, Internship

YourVisio MediaDec 2023 to May 2024

My first real taste of agency style social media work. I got hands on experience managing content and campaigns in a faster paced environment than I was used to, which sharpened how I think about strategy before I brought those habits back into my main role.

• Content creation
• Campaign support

Projects

Featured build

DAD LINK: a live e-commerce site for network infrastructure equipment in Iraq

DAD LINK is a fully working B2B online store I designed and launched for a network infrastructure supplier serving Iraq, built around the tagline "Build a Network That Never Fails." It sells certified Cat.6 and Cat.6A structured copper cabling, fiber optic patch cords from OM1 to OS2, server racks and cabinets from 4U to 42U, and HDMI 2.1 cables rated for 8K at 60Hz up to 50 meters, all engineered to ISO/IEC 11801 and TIA-568 standards.

I built the entire site on Odoo, the open source e-commerce and ERP platform, with Claude Code doing most of the heavy lifting: product catalog structure, category pages, on-page SEO, and the storefront layout itself, plus blog content on real installer questions like Wi-Fi 6E versus Wi-Fi 7 cabling requirements, Power over Ethernet variants, and structured cabling installation planning. The result is a real production store, not a demo, built around three pillars the brand leads with: certified quality, infrastructure built to scale, and a local partner network of authorized distributors across Baghdad, Erbil, and Sulaimaniyah, including Help Tech Co. Ltd, the same company I work at.

This project is the clearest proof point I have for what AI-assisted development actually looks like day to day: not a chatbot answering questions, but a working partner that plans the information architecture, writes product and category copy that targets real search terms like network cables Iraq, Cat6 cable, fiber optic patch cord, and server rack cabinet, and ships a site that is fast, indexable, and genuinely used by customers.

• Odoo e-commerce
• Claude Code
• Technical SEO
• B2B catalog design
• Content strategy

Visit dad-link.com →

A few n8n builds I am genuinely proud of, outside of client work.

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  Invoice Fraud Firewall

  Vendors do not usually email asking you to change their bank details. Fraudsters do, and they pick the end of a long day to do it. This workflow watches the finance inbox, uses Gemini to pull the vendor, amount and banking details out of every invoice email, and checks the account against a verified vendor registry. Mismatched banks, lookalike domains and urgency language all get flagged.

  Every email is scored Clean, Review or Critical. Anything risky is held with a Telegram and email alert before the money moves, and the whole trail is logged to Sheets. The point is that a human gets a warning before the mistake, not an audit after it.

  • n8n
  • Gemini
  • Gmail
  • Google Sheets
  • Telegram

  Read the full write-up on LinkedIn →

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  AI Lead Intelligence & Auto-Response

  Slow replies lose deals. Gemini reads every inbound lead, scores it HOT, WARM or COLD, and writes a personalised reply that references what the person actually asked about rather than a template.

  Hot leads trigger an instant Telegram alert on my phone and a calendar follow-up for the next day. Warm leads get an email and a standard notification. Cold leads get a polite acknowledgement and nothing else. Everything lands in Sheets, and it runs entirely on free tiers.

  • n8n
  • Gemini
  • Gmail
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Calendar
  • Telegram

  Read the full write-up on LinkedIn →

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  Multi-Stage Invoice Approval Pipeline

  Invoice approvals are not hard. They are boring, repetitive and easy to forget, which is exactly why they stall. Gemini reads the attachment in whatever format it arrives and pulls out the vendor, amount, invoice number, due date and line items.

  From there it routes on the amount: under $500 auto-approves and sends a receipt, $501 to $5,000 goes to a manager with one-click approve or reject, and anything over $5,000 needs the manager first and then finance sign-off. Every decision is logged to Sheets with a timestamp, and the person who sent the invoice is told at each stage, so nobody has to chase it.

  • n8n
  • Gemini
  • Gmail
  • Google Sheets

  Read the full write-up on LinkedIn →

Beyond prompting

Anyone can type a clever prompt into a chat window. Getting an AI model to do real, unattended, production-grade work, like building and shipping the DAD LINK storefront above, takes four distinct layers of skill, and most people who claim to "know AI" have only touched the first one.

1. 01

   Prompt Engineering

   Optimizes the instruction. This is what most people mean when they say "AI skills": how you phrase a request, assign a persona, set formatting rules, and give clear constraints for a single interaction. It matters, but it only covers one exchange, it does not survive a long project on its own.

   Like giving a new hire their daily task list.

2. 02

   Context Engineering

   Optimizes the information. It manages what the model's context window actually sees: retrieval-augmented generation, memory management, and picking the right documents, code, or prior decisions to surface at the right moment. Bad context engineering is why AI tools "forget" things mid-project. I treat this as a first-class design problem, not an afterthought.

   Like handing them the correct project binders before they start.

3. 03

   Harness Engineering

   Optimizes the execution environment. This is the closed-loop system around the model: what tools it can call, what guardrails stop it from doing something destructive, and how output gets validated before it is trusted. This is the layer that turns "the AI wrote something" into "the AI's work is safe to ship," and it is most of what I actually build when I automate something with n8n.

   Like designing the workspace, the rules, and the oversight the employee works under.

4. 04

   Loop Engineering

   Automates the repetition. It builds on harness engineering to let agents run for hours without me watching: spawning helper agents for sub-tasks, checking their own results against a standard, and self-correcting when something is off. Sites like DAD LINK get built this way, in long autonomous passes with checkpoints, not one prompt at a time.

   Like an employee who runs their own workday and only escalates what actually needs a human.