# Nidal Alhariri
Senior backend and AI engineer, freelance, Berlin. Remote, on-site in Berlin by arrangement.
Availability: available now, full-time or part-time.
Working language: English. Languages: Arabic (native), English (fluent), Russian (good), German (B1).

## Summary
Twenty years building production software. I take backend and AI features from written scope to production, keep them reliable, and hand them over documented so your team can own them.

## Skills

### Backend
Python, FastAPI, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Celery, async services, REST and event-driven APIs, PHP, Node.js

### Data
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Apache Kafka, Snowflake, Airflow

### Infra
AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, Linux, Datadog, OpenTelemetry

### AI/LLM/agents
LLM integration, RAG, MCP servers, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings and vector search (pgvector), agents, evaluation

### Frontend
Vue, React, Next.js, TypeScript

## Experience

### Raisin SE
Period: 2021 to 2026
Organisation: Raisin SE, Berlin (fintech, savings and investment marketplace)
Role: Senior backend engineer, freelance
URL: https://www.raisin.com
Python microservices with FastAPI, Kafka and PostgreSQL on AWS and Kubernetes, Terraform, and front end in React and Next.js, for a European savings and investment marketplace. Bonus campaigns, payouts, and authentication work across product migrations.
Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, SQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, React, Next.js.

### Bayanat
Period: 2014 to now
Organisation: Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC), Washington D.C., remote (human rights documentation)
Role: Lead engineer, Syria Justice and Accountability Centre
URL: https://bayanat.org
Open-source platform used to document human rights violations. Full-text search over millions of records, granular permissions, encrypted backups and signed updates. US State Department Internet Freedom Award, 2019.
Technologies: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis, Pydantic, Vue, WebAuthn, AWS S3, OpenAI Whisper, Google Cloud Vision, OpenAI-compatible vision LLMs, Tesseract OCR, Docker, Nginx, Caddy.

### Level09
Period: 2005 to now
Organisation: Level09 FZE, Dubai (software studio and product company)
Role: Founder and lead engineer
URL: https://level09.com
Built and operate Flowdesk, a deal-flow platform for property developers with live inventory, PDF offers and Salesforce sync. Sales CRM and client portal for Seven Tides. Platforms and data migrations for JLL, UNDP and Minor Group.
Technologies: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis, WebSockets, WebAuthn, Anthropic API, Salesforce API, Docker, Nginx.

### Al Arabiya
Period: 2010 to 2016
Organisation: MBC Group (Al Arabiya), Dubai (broadcast and news media)
Role: Senior web specialist and team lead, MBC Group
URL: https://www.alarabiya.net
Led web engineering through the Arab Spring traffic peaks. Designed the core content API for web, mobile and broadcast, and a video ingest pipeline from Avid production systems to publishing.
Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, PHP, iOS, infrastructure and operations.

### SwissMed AI
Period: 12/2025 to 07/2026
Organisation: SwissMed AI (mdai.ch), Switzerland (independent medical AI platform for physicians)
Role: Technical Lead, freelance
URL: https://mdai.ch
Built the platform behind SwissMed AI, a physician-led resource on AI in Swiss healthcare. Bilingual site (English and German) with a data-driven directory of 92 clinical AI tools mapped to medical specialties, the Swiss Healthcare AI Map, an AI Research Radar, content import from Substack, SEO tooling (IndexNow, sitemap and hreflang checks), analytics and self-hosted deployment. Then built an agent-orchestrated workflow through which updates are pushed to the site; I own the technical side.
Technologies: Eleventy (11ty), Nunjucks, JavaScript, Node.js, PostHog, Linux.

## Projects

### Enferno
Period: 2014 to Present
URL: https://enferno.io
Flask framework with production authentication. Maintained since 2014, 569 GitHub stars.
Technologies: Python, Flask, Vue 3, WebAuthn

### ReadyKit
Period: 2025 to Present
URL: https://readykit.dev
SaaS foundation on Enferno with workspaces, billing and roles. Sponsored by Chargebee.
Technologies: Python, Flask, Stripe

### stk
Period: 2026 to Present
URL: https://stk.dev
Async Python framework designed so coding agents can operate and extend the apps built on it.
Technologies: Python, Quart

### OfferBrief
Period: 2025
URL: https://offerbrief.com
Dubai property intelligence over 1.6M+ transactions: LLM analysis, semantic search on embeddings in pgvector, and an MCP server for agents.
Technologies: OpenAI embeddings, PostgreSQL, pgvector, MCP

### Qarina
Period: 2026
URL: https://qarina.org
Evidence-grounded research workspace. A central orchestrator coordinates planning, web research and retrieval, streams the answer with its sources, and traces tokens and cost per step.
Technologies: Python, Quart, async SQLAlchemy, Vue 3, OpenRouter, vector retrieval.

### Vilcos

URL: https://vilcos.com
AI agent built on Agno that creates and maintains websites through chat. Award at the Global Agent Hackathon 2025.
Technologies: Agno

### watchd
Period: 2026 to Present
URL: https://watchd.dev
Control plane for AI agent work that funds agent loops by verified outcomes. One Go binary.
Technologies: Go

### NosyAgent
Period: 2025 to Present
URL: https://nosyagent.com
Personal AI assistant with engineered long-term memory: entity extraction, routing between Claude model tiers, Voyage AI embeddings.
Technologies: Claude API, Voyage AI

### FigureKit
Period: 2026 to Present
URL: https://figurekit.dev
Agent-operated visual generation exposed as an MCP server.
Technologies: Cloudflare Workers, TypeScript, MCP, OAuth, Stripe.

### Frameloop

Python CLI that generates video, images and 3D assets through Replicate models.
Technologies: Python, Replicate

## Awards
2019: Internet Freedom Award, Bayanat, US State Department
2025: Award, Vilcos, Global Agent Hackathon
2016: Technical Reviewer, Mastering Flask, Packt Publishing
2012: Top Achiever Award, MBC Group

## Links
Website: https://nidalalhariri.com
GitHub: https://github.com/level09
Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Nidal_Alhariri