Doha, Qatar · Open to freelance projects

Raniya Aboobacker — Senior Python & AI Engineer in Doha, Qatar. Hi, I'm Raniya. I build web platforms, APIs, AI & automation — end to end.

  • Senior Python & AI Engineer
  • Full-Stack Web Development
  • AI Integration & Prompt Engineering
  • Power Automate & Copilot
  • GCP

Senior Python & AI Engineer on the AI Innovation Team at QIC Group (Qatar Insurance Company). I build complete solutions end to end — full web applications in Django, FastAPI, Flask and React on PostgreSQL, clean REST APIs that connect systems never meant to talk to each other, generative AI with Gemini, Copilot and LLM APIs, premium Power Automate flows across Microsoft 365, and deployments on Google Cloud Run. AI that's accurate, secure and useful — not just impressive in a demo.

Raniya Aboobacker, Senior Python & AI Engineer in Doha, Qatar

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Raniya AboobackerSenior Python & AI Engineer
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At a glance

My whole stack, in the palm of your hand.

Scroll to swipe through the tools I use every day to design, build, automate and ship.

  • Python
  • Django
  • DRF
  • Flask
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST APIs
  • Swagger
  • Google Gemini

About

I build complete solutions end to end — web platforms, backend APIs, AI-powered features and enterprise automations that teams use every day.

I'm Raniya, a Senior Python & AI Engineer based in Doha, Qatar. I design and build full web applications, from database to deployed product — Django, Django REST Framework, Flask and FastAPI on the backend, React on the frontend, backed by PostgreSQL. I've built SaaS products, learning platforms with role-based access and live classes, analytics dashboards, portfolio sites and e-commerce projects, and I take each one from idea to launch.

Today I'm on the AI Innovation Team at QIC Group (Qatar Insurance Company), building AI and automation solutions for finance, HR and investment teams — including PE Lens, a portfolio analytics platform presented at QIC Demo Day. Before that I spent three years as a backend developer at LogicPlum, and I started my career as a Python & Django trainer.

I integrate generative AI into real products and workflows, connect systems through clean, documented APIs, build premium Power Automate flows and Copilot assistants across Microsoft 365, and deploy on Google Cloud — Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, global load balancing and CI/CD from GitHub. My work in insurance, private equity and investor relations means accuracy, security and audit readiness are built in, not bolted on.

I also run Rannz, where I build my own products and take on freelance projects, and I teach Python, Django, APIs and AI integration one-to-one in English and Malayalam.

  • 0+years building production systems
  • 0frameworks — Django, Flask, FastAPI & React
  • 0sdevelopers & students trained

Services

What I can build for you.

Have a website, app, AI feature or manual process you want built? I'll take it from idea to launch — designed, built, secured, automated and deployed, with clear documentation so it keeps running long after go-live.

Web & product development

Full web applications from database to deployed product — SaaS products, learning platforms with role-based access and live classes, analytics dashboards, portfolio sites and e-commerce.

  • Django
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
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AI integration & prompt engineering

Generative AI built into real products: smart assistants, document and email understanding, resume analysis, interview practice and intelligent data extraction — with structured prompts that return reliable, validated output.

  • Google Gemini
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • LLM APIs
  • Prompt engineering
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API development & integrations

Clean REST APIs with Swagger documentation that connect systems never meant to talk to each other — third-party platforms, payment gateways, HR portals, financial data providers and Microsoft 365.

  • REST APIs
  • Swagger
  • OAuth
  • JWT
  • Webhooks
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Power Automate & Copilot

Premium Power Automate flows across Outlook, shared mailboxes, SharePoint, Excel, Forms and Teams — with retry logic, scheduled batches and custom Python APIs behind them — plus Copilot assistants and knowledge bases inside your team's own Microsoft accounts.

  • Power Automate
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • SharePoint
  • Microsoft 365
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Cloud & DevOps

Applications deployed and run on Google Cloud — Cloud Run microservices, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, global load balancing, custom domains and CI/CD from GitHub. Multiple codebases migrated to GCP on tight deadlines.

  • GCP Cloud Run
  • Cloud SQL
  • Firebase
  • GitHub CI/CD
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AI-built websites & frontends

Modern websites and dashboards built and maintained with Claude and AI coding tools — quick to launch and easy to keep up to date.

  • Claude
  • React
  • HTML & CSS
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AI & automation consulting

Not sure where AI fits? I'll map your processes and show where AI helps, where simple automation is the better tool, and what to build first.

  • Process mapping
  • AI vs automation
  • Roadmap
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Security, quality & data migration

JWT and OAuth authentication, role-based access, OTP flows, audit logging, code review and testing — plus safe, validated migration of your data into PostgreSQL.

  • JWT
  • RBAC
  • Code review
  • Data migration
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One-to-one training

Practical classes in Python, Django, APIs, AI integration, prompting, Power Automate and Copilot — in English or Malayalam, built around real projects, not slides.

  • Python
  • Django
  • AI
  • Automation
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Skills

The toolkit.

Everything I use to take a system from whiteboard to production — and keep it secure, tested and maintainable.

Skills01 / 10

Backend & APIs

  1. 01Python
  2. 02Django
  3. 03Django REST Framework
  4. 04Flask
  5. 05FastAPI
  6. 06REST API design
  7. 07Swagger
  8. 08Microservices
  9. 09Async APIs
  10. 10Gunicorn
Skills02 / 10

Frontend & Product

  1. 01React
  2. 02HTML & CSS
  3. 03SaaS products
  4. 04Analytics dashboards
  5. 05Learning platforms
  6. 06E-commerce
  7. 07AI-assisted frontend development
Skills03 / 10

Architecture & Integration

  1. 01System design
  2. 02Backend architecture
  3. 03Enterprise integration
  4. 04Third-party APIs
  5. 05Payment gateways
  6. 06OAuth
  7. 07Certificate-based JWT
  8. 08Microsoft Graph (Outlook)
  9. 09Webhooks
  10. 10Scheduled jobs
Skills04 / 10

AI & Data

  1. 01Google Gemini
  2. 02LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude)
  3. 03Prompt engineering
  4. 04RAG pipelines
  5. 05Smart assistants
  6. 06Document & email understanding
  7. 07Intelligent data extraction
  8. 08pandas
  9. 09pdfplumber
  10. 10pypdf
  11. 11openpyxl
Skills05 / 10

Power Automate & Copilot

  • Power Automate (premium)
  • Outlook & shared mailboxes
  • SharePoint
  • Excel, Forms & Teams
  • Retry logic & scheduled batches
  • HTTP triggers & custom Python APIs
  • Microsoft Copilot assistants
  • Copilot knowledge bases
  • Claude & Claude skills
Skills06 / 10

Databases & Migration

  • PostgreSQL
  • Google Cloud SQL
  • SQLite
  • SQL
  • Data modelling
  • Database design
  • Data migration
  • Schema migrations
Skills07 / 10

DevOps & Cloud

  1. 01Docker
  2. 02Google Cloud Run
  3. 03Cloud SQL
  4. 04Cloud Storage
  5. 05Global load balancing
  6. 06Custom domains
  7. 07Cloud Build
  8. 08Firebase Hosting & Firestore
  9. 09CI/CD
  10. 10GitHub Actions
  11. 11Git & GitHub
Skills08 / 10

Security

  1. 01Secure coding
  2. 02JWT (SimpleJWT, access & refresh tokens)
  3. 03Role-based access control
  4. 04OTP handling
  5. 05CSRF & CORS
  6. 06Secrets management
  7. 07Audit logging
Skills09 / 10

Quality & Testing

  1. 01Code review
  2. 02Unit testing
  3. 03API testing
  4. 04Integration testing
  5. 05Debugging
  6. 06Performance optimization
Skills10 / 10

Leadership & Delivery

  1. 01Technical leadership
  2. 02Mentoring interns & developers
  3. 03Task allocation
  4. 04Stakeholder coordination
  5. 05Technical documentation
  6. 06Knowledge transfer
  7. 07Architecture proposals

Featured work

Real problems, solved end to end.

Selected projects across finance, investments and HR — each one replacing a manual, error-prone process with a secure, automated system.

03AI · RAG

Investor Relations AI Platform

Problem
Answering investor questions meant digging through quarterly reports, transcripts and Excel financials.
Solution
A platform that ingests them into a versioned knowledge base, with a Gemini-powered Q&A engine that returns evidence-backed answers with source citations — such as combined-ratio and net-profit comparisons across periods.
Impact
Secured with JWT, CSRF protection and restricted admin operations; deployed on Cloud Run with Cloud SQL and Cloud Storage.
  • Django REST Framework
  • Gemini API
  • RAG
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • Cloud Run
04HR automation

Business Travel Request Automation

Problem
Travel requests had to be entered into an external HR portal protected by a web application firewall and two-step OTP login.
Solution
A stateless two-call Cloud Run API that handles the firewall cookies and OTP login, an extraction endpoint that parses travellers' email replies into structured data, and a two-flow Power Automate system on a shared mailbox.
Impact
An end-to-end automated travel request workflow, delivered with IT on mailbox and premium licensing.
  • Python
  • Cloud Run
  • Power Automate
  • Gemini API

Products & freelance

Things I ship on my own.

Outside the day job, Rannz is where I build products and take on client projects.

My SaaS product

Resume ATS Checker

Helps job seekers in India check their resume against ATS systems and practise interviews.

  • Python
  • Cloud Run
  • AI
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Classes

Learn to build with Python & AI.

I've trained hundreds of students and junior developers. My classes go from Python fundamentals to building real systems with modern AI — how to use AI tools well, write prompts that work, and know where AI belongs and where plain automation does the job better. And if you'd rather have it built, I take on freelance projects in everything I teach.

One-to-one classes

  • Python
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework
  • Integrating Gemini into your apps
  • Using modern AI tools in development
  • Prompting techniques
  • Building & maintaining frontends with Claude skills
  • Where to use AI vs automation
  • Power Automate
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • Connecting Power Automate with web apps

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Experience

Career journey.

  1. Sep 2025 — Present

    Senior Python Engineer, AI Innovation Team

    Qatar Insurance Group (QIC) · Doha, Qatar

    Lead the design and delivery of finance and HR backend systems end to end: architecture, REST APIs and microservices, integrations with SharePoint, Microsoft Graph, Power Automate and LLM APIs, PostgreSQL migrations, secure coding, and Docker on Cloud Run with CI/CD.

  2. Apr 2023 — May 2025

    Senior Backend Developer

    LogicPlum · Kochi, India

    Designed and delivered Django REST Framework APIs for AI, machine-learning and data-science products; owned backend modules from database design to ML-pipeline integration; reviewed code and guided interns.

  3. Jan 2022 — Apr 2023

    Backend Developer

    LogicPlum · Kochi, India

    Built REST APIs, authentication, role-based permissions and data-processing endpoints with the frontend and data-science teams. Promoted to Senior Backend Developer in April 2023.

  4. Nov 2019 — Dec 2021

    Python / Django Trainer & Junior Developer

    Sidhah Edutech, Avodha, SparkPro Solutions, LIVEWIRE India · Kerala, India

    Trained and mentored hundreds of students and junior developers, led student teams through end-to-end projects, and built Django applications for college and freelance clients.

Education

  • MBA, Data Analytics & Data ScienceManipal University Jaipur (Online)2026 — In progress
  • B.Sc. Computer ScienceUniversity of Calicut2016 — 2019
  • EF SET English CertificateC1 Advanced65 / 100

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    Contact

    Let's build something useful.

    Have a website, app, AI feature or manual process you want built? Tell me about it and I'll get back to you with how I'd approach it — or book a one-to-one class.

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