Building Smart Apps
Taha Rafiq

Hi, I'm Taha.

Data analyst by trade. AI-agent wrangler by 2025 necessity. This page is my resume, minus the boring font.

The Journey So Far

Growth Marketing Associate · Dawaai Jun 2020 – Jul 2021

Where I learned "personalization" is just math nobody wants to do by hand.

Grew the paying user base ~27% month-on-month, lifted engagement 44% via RFM segmentation, and wired up CRM automation that quietly improved retention by 42%.

Performance Marketing Specialist · Daraz (Alibaba Group) Jul 2021 – Aug 2022

Handed a $5M budget and told to "make it work." Cohort analysis beats vibes, every time.

Won back 55,000 average monthly buyers by chasing down a retention drop, and built a daily active-user forecasting model accurate to ~91%.

MSc Business Analytics · University of Manchester 2022 – 2023

Studied LLMs and transformers in 2022 — before ChatGPT made it cool to have an opinion about them.

Operational Research & Risk Analysis, graduated with Distinction.

Data Analyst · PwC Sep 2023 – Dec 2024

Found £350K hiding in a spreadsheet nobody wanted to double-check. You're welcome.

Built an AI-powered tech news tool with Gemini that cut research effort 77%, and automated team workflows saving ~150 hours a quarter.

Data Analyst · Cloudflare Jan 2025 – Present

Fired Tableau. Hired an AI agent instead. No complaints filed yet.

Replaced Tableau with a vibe-coded analytics platform on Cloudflare Workers, Workers KV, and Analytics Engine — built with OpenCode and an AGENTS.md context layer so AI agents contribute reliably. Helped Strategy hit a 92% ACV target across 9 verticals, and automated reporting to claw back ~140 hours a quarter.

Tools I Reach For

SQL Python BigQuery Power BI Tableau Cloudflare Workers Workers KV Analytics Engine OpenCode Windsurf Alteryx Google Apps Script CI/CD Looker Studio

Somewhere between chasing paid-media budgets and teaching AI agents to ship production code, I picked up a weirdly specific skill: I can smell a bad dashboard from across the room, and I'd rather prototype something real than sit through another slide deck about "AI strategy." This site is Exhibit A.

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