Nidal Alhariri, senior backend and AI engineer in Berlin. More than 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.
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# Nidal Alhariri Senior backend and AI engineer, freelance, Berlin, remote. Availability: available now, full-time or part-time. Working language: English. Languages: Arabic (native), English (fluent), Russian (B2), German (B1, telc certified). ## Summary More than 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, Django, Flask, Quart, 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, Ansible, CI/CD, Linux, Datadog, OpenTelemetry ### AI/LLM/agents LLM integration (Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, local models), RAG, embeddings and vector search (pgvector), LangChain, LangGraph, multi-agent orchestration, human-in-the-loop review, MCP servers, evaluation ### Frontend Vue, React, Next.js, TypeScript ### GIS PostGIS, geospatial queries, Leaflet maps, OpenStreetMap data ## 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: Whisper transcription and vision-LLM OCR on its media, trigram search with Arabic normalisation over millions of records, PostGIS location search and maps, per-record permissions, signed releases with a database snapshot and rollback on every update. First built on Django, later migrated to Flask. US State Department Internet Freedom Award, 2019. Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Celery, Redis, Pydantic, Vue, Leaflet, 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 UAE property developers: live inventory, payment plans, PDF offers and reservation agreements, and a Claude-based spreadsheet import with preview and undo. Sales CRM for Seven Tides. Platforms and data migrations for JLL, UNDP and Minor Group. Runs and secures its production servers with Ansible playbooks: provisioning, hardening, firewall rules and fail2ban. Technologies: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis, WebSockets, WebAuthn, Anthropic API, Docker, Nginx, Ansible. ### Seven Tides Period: 2015 to now Organisation: Seven Tides, Dubai (luxury real estate and hospitality developer, Dubai and London) Role: Technology partner, through Level09 URL: https://seventides.com Corporate site for a luxury developer and hotel owner, with projects, leasing and hotel pages (DUKES London and Dubai, Anantara The Palm), plus the sales CRM. ### MBC Group Period: 2010 to 2016 Organisation: MBC Group, Dubai (leading Arab broadcaster) Role: Senior web specialist and team lead URL: https://www.mbc.net Led a web engineering team for MBC's news platform. Built all of its APIs in Django, including the mobile app APIs and 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: 2025 to 2026 Organisation: SwissMed AI (mdai.ch), Switzerland (independent medical AI platform for physicians) Role: Technical Lead, freelance URL: https://mdai.ch Technical lead for SwissMed AI, a physician-led resource on AI in Swiss healthcare: a bilingual directory of 122 clinical AI tools mapped to medical specialties, the Swiss Healthcare AI Map and an AI Research Radar. Site updates run through an agent-orchestrated workflow I built and own. 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, 568 GitHub stars. Technologies: Python, Flask, Vue 3, WebAuthn ### Sealbook Period: 2026 to Present URL: https://sealbook.org Evidence intelligence for human rights investigations, in private preview. One local multimodal search over text, PDFs, images, audio and video, agents that hunt contradictions and gaps across a case, every AI claim pinned to its source and accepted by a named reviewer, signed evidence packages with an offline verifier. Open source. Technologies: Python, Quart, PostgreSQL, pgvector, PostGIS, Ollama, EmbeddingGemma, faster-whisper ### ReadyKit Period: 2025 to Present URL: https://readykit.dev SaaS foundation on Enferno with workspaces, roles, and Stripe or Chargebee billing. The Chargebee integration was commissioned by Chargebee. Technologies: Python, Flask, Stripe, Chargebee ### 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 to Present URL: https://offerbrief.com Values Dubai property listings against 1.1M+ recorded sales and 5.9M+ leases from official land department data. Deal memos come from a multi-agent committee on LangGraph: specialist agents run in parallel, then a critic and a guardrail that rejects any number not tied to cited evidence, then the owner approves or asks for a revision. Claude Sonnet, pgvector similarity search, and dld-mcp, an MCP server that lets agents query the data. Technologies: Python, LangGraph, Claude API, PostgreSQL, pgvector, MCP ### Qarina Period: 2026 URL: https://qarina.org Research workspace where every answer comes with its sources. Technologies: Python, Quart, async SQLAlchemy, Vue 3, OpenRouter, vector retrieval. ### Vilcos Period: 2025 URL: https://vilcos.com AI agent built on Agno that creates and maintains websites through chat. Prize winner at the Global Agent Hackathon 2025. Technologies: Agno ### watchd Period: 2026 to Present URL: https://watchd.dev Scheduled AI agents on your own Cloudflare account that browse, search, remember and report only what is new, under a hard spend cap. TypeScript Worker with D1 and an MCP server. Technologies: TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, D1, OpenRouter, MCP. ### 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 Period: 2026 to now URL: https://frameloop.io iPhone app for AI video stories that turns one still image into a directed motion clip: pick a frame, describe camera and subject motion in plain language, render remotely on fal.ai video models (Seedance, Kling), then reuse the result. Image editing and frame extraction built in. Private TestFlight beta. Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, SwiftData, fal.ai. ### Zant Period: 2026 to now URL: https://zant.io Owned application starter for Cloudflare Workers, where people and agents use one typed action contract with the same workspace and permission checks. Auth, users, workspaces, roles, audit trail and generated OpenAPI. Pre-release. Technologies: TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, Hono, Drizzle, D1, better-auth. ### ZigLag Period: 2026 to now URL: https://ziglag.com Self-hosted, open-source invoicing built on stk: line items, tax and discounts, PDF generation, public share links clients open without an account, payment recording and monthly reports. Technologies: Python, Quart, stk. ### OpenStadt Period: 2026 URL: https://openstadt.org Open-source platform that shows whether public facilities are distributed fairly across the districts of seven German cities: OpenStreetMap data, an equity score per district, an interactive map and an analytics dashboard. MIT licensed. Technologies: Python, Flask, OpenStreetMap, GeoJSON. ### quart-security Period: 2026 to now URL: https://github.com/level09/quart-security Native async authentication for Quart, a replacement path for Flask-Security: sessions, roles, TOTP with recovery codes, and WebAuthn passkeys. Technologies: Python, Quart, SQLAlchemy, WebAuthn. ### NosyAgent Period: 2025 to 2026 URL: https://nosyagent.com Personal assistant on Telegram with long-term memory: entity extraction into structured facts, a Haiku router in front of Sonnet, prompt caching. Technologies: Claude API, Telegram ### GermanRat Period: 2026 URL: https://germanrat.com Chrome extension for learning German from any web page: select text to translate it and hear it spoken, save words and export them to Anki. Bring your own API key; saved words stay in the browser. Technologies: JavaScript, Chrome extensions, OpenAI API, OpenRouter. ### Flask extensions Period: 2024 to 2025 URL: https://github.com/level09/flask-openai flask-openai (on PyPI) and flask-supabase: small Flask extensions that connect the OpenAI API and Supabase to Flask apps. Technologies: Python, Flask, OpenAI API, Supabase. ## Awards 2019: Internet Freedom Award, Bayanat, US State Department 2025: Prize winner, Vilcos, Global Agent Hackathon (Agno) 2016: Technical Reviewer, Mastering Flask, Packt Publishing ## Links Website: https://nidalalhariri.com GitHub: https://github.com/level09 Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Nidal_Alhariri
Available now
Full-time or part-time. Remote.
The same facts, served read-only over MCP from cv.md. No LLM runs on the server, so answers can only contain what is in the profile.
https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcpget_profile()search_experience(query)get_project(name)Senior backend engineer, freelance
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.
Lead engineer, Syria Justice and Accountability Centre
Open-source platform used to document human rights violations: Whisper transcription and vision-LLM OCR on its media, trigram search with Arabic normalisation over millions of records, PostGIS location search and maps, per-record permissions, signed releases with a database snapshot and rollback on every update. First built on Django, later migrated to Flask. US State Department Internet Freedom AwardAwarded in 2019 to the Bayanat project, the open-source platform SJAC uses to document human rights violations., 2019.
Founder and lead engineer
Built and operate Flowdesk, a deal-flow platform for UAE property developers: live inventory, payment plans, PDF offers and reservation agreements, and a Claude-based spreadsheet import with preview and undo. Sales CRM for Seven Tides. Platforms and data migrations for JLL, UNDP and Minor Group. Runs and secures its production servers with Ansible playbooks: provisioning, hardening, firewall rules and fail2ban.
Senior web specialist and team lead
Led a web engineering team for MBC's news platform. Built all of its APIs in Django, including the mobile app APIs and the core content API for web, mobile and broadcast, and a video ingest pipeline from Avid production systems to publishing.
Technology partner, through Level09
Corporate site for a luxury developer and hotel owner, with projects, leasing and hotel pages (DUKES London and Dubai, Anantara The Palm), plus the sales CRM.
Technical Lead, freelance
Technical lead for SwissMed AI, a physician-led resource on AI in Swiss healthcare: a bilingual directory of 122 clinical AI tools mapped to medical specialties, the Swiss Healthcare AI Map and an AI Research Radar. Site updates run through an agent-orchestrated workflow I built and own.
Flask framework with production authentication. Maintained since 2014, 568 GitHub starsOpen source and MIT licensed. The base of ReadyKit, Bayanat and Flowdesk..
SaaS foundation on Enferno with workspaces, roles, and Stripe or Chargebee billing. The Chargebee integration was commissioned by Chargebee.
Async Python framework designed so coding agents can operate and extend the apps built on it.
Agent-operated visual generation exposed as an MCP server.
Values Dubai property listings against 1.1M+ recorded sales and 5.9M+ leases from official land department data. Deal memos come from a multi-agent committee on LangGraph: specialist agents run in parallel, then a critic and a guardrail that rejects any number not tied to cited evidence, then the owner approves or asks for a revision. Claude Sonnet, pgvector similarity search, and dld-mcp, an MCP server that lets agents query the data.
Evidence intelligence for human rights investigations, in private preview. One local multimodal search over text, PDFs, images, audio and video, agents that hunt contradictions and gaps across a case, every AI claim pinned to its source and accepted by a named reviewer, signed evidence packages with an offline verifier. Open source.
Research workspace where every answer comes with its sources.
AI agent built on Agno that creates and maintains websites through chat. Prize winner at the Global Agent Hackathon 2025.
Scheduled AI agents on your own Cloudflare account that browse, search, remember and report only what is new, under a hard spend cap. TypeScript Worker with D1 and an MCP server.
iPhone app for AI video stories that turns one still image into a directed motion clip: pick a frame, describe camera and subject motion in plain language, render remotely on fal.ai video models (Seedance, Kling), then reuse the result. Image editing and frame extraction built in. Private TestFlight beta.
Owned application starter for Cloudflare Workers, where people and agents use one typed action contract with the same workspace and permission checks. Auth, users, workspaces, roles, audit trail and generated OpenAPI. Pre-release.
Self-hosted, open-source invoicing built on stk: line items, tax and discounts, PDF generation, public share links clients open without an account, payment recording and monthly reports.
Open-source platform that shows whether public facilities are distributed fairly across the districts of seven German cities: OpenStreetMap data, an equity score per district, an interactive map and an analytics dashboard. MIT licensed.
Native async authentication for Quart, a replacement path for Flask-Security: sessions, roles, TOTP with recovery codes, and WebAuthn passkeys.
Personal assistant on Telegram with long-term memory: entity extraction into structured facts, a Haiku router in front of Sonnet, prompt caching.
Chrome extension for learning German from any web page: select text to translate it and hear it spoken, save words and export them to Anki. Bring your own API key; saved words stay in the browser.
flask-openai (on PyPI) and flask-supabase: small Flask extensions that connect the OpenAI API and Supabase to Flask apps.
Streamable HTTP, no session. Three tools and one resource, cv://nidal-alhariri, all answered from cv.md. No LLM runs on the server.
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"mcpServers": {
"nidal-cv": {
"url": "https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcp"
}
}
}