Nidal Alhariri

Senior backend and AI engineer · Berlin

Available now Full-time or part-time

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Nidal Alhariri

Backend and AI, taken to production.

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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Name
Nidal Alhariri
Profile
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 (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.

Read this profile as data.

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.

Endpoint
https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcp
Tools
get_profile()search_experience(query)get_project(name)
Resource
cv://nidal-alhariri
Open the Agent view

Point your agent at one URL.

https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcp
Transport
Streamable HTTP
Access
Read-only. Three tools and one resource, all over cv.md.
Resource
cv://nidal-alhariri the full cv.md
Setup for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor

Selected work

Raisin SE

2021 to 2026

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.

Bayanat

2014 to now

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, full-text search over millions of records, granular permissions, encrypted backups and signed updates. 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.

SwissMed AI

2025 to 2026

Technical Lead, freelance

Technical lead for SwissMed AI, a physician-led resource on AI in Swiss healthcare: a bilingual directory of 92 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.

Level09

2005 to now

Founder and lead engineer

Built and operate Flowdesk, a deal-flow platform for property developers with LLM features on the Anthropic API, 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.

2 more engagements

Seven Tides

2005 to now

Technology partner, through Level09

Corporate and property websites for a luxury developer and hotel owner, including DUKES Hotels and Anantara Residences, plus the sales CRM and client portal.

Al Arabiya

2010 to 2016

Senior web specialist and team lead, MBC Group

Led web engineering through the Arab Spring traffic peaks. 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.

What I do

Backend
Python services and APIs with FastAPI, Django and Flask, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis and Elasticsearch, on AWS and Kubernetes.
AI in production
LLM features inside existing products, retrieval-augmented search, agents and MCP servers, with evals and monitoring.
Fixed-scope work
A one-week AI feature audit, a two to three week prototype-to-production engagement, or monthly senior capacity.

Open source and products

Enferno
Flask framework with production authentication. Maintained since 2014, 569 GitHub starsOpen source and MIT licensed. The base of ReadyKit, Bayanat and Flowdesk..
ReadyKit
SaaS foundation on Enferno with workspaces, billing and roles. Sponsored by Chargebee.
stk
Async Python framework designed so coding agents can operate and extend the apps built on it.
OfferBrief
Dubai property intelligence over 1.6M+ transactions: LLM analysis, semantic search on embeddings in pgvector, and an MCP server for agents.
Qarina
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.
Vilcos
AI agent built on Agno that creates and maintains websites through chat. Award at the Global Agent Hackathon 2025.
watchd
Control plane for AI agent work that funds agent loops by verified outcomes. One Go binary.
9 more projects
FigureKit
Agent-operated visual generation exposed as an MCP server.
Frameloop
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.
Zant
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, tokens, audit reads and a CLI. Pre-release.
ZigLag
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.
OpenStadt
Open-source platform that shows whether public facilities are distributed fairly across a German city's neighbourhoods: OpenStreetMap data, an equity score per district, an interactive map and an analytics dashboard. MIT licensed.
quart-security
Native async authentication for Quart, a replacement path for Flask-Security: sessions, roles, TOTP with recovery codes, and WebAuthn passkeys.
NosyAgent
Personal AI assistant with engineered long-term memory: entity extraction, routing between Claude model tiers, Voyage AI embeddings.
GermanRat
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 extensions
flask-openai (on PyPI) and flask-supabase: small Flask extensions that connect the OpenAI API and Supabase to Flask apps.

Work together

Available now, full-time or part-time. Remote.

The profile as structured facts.

Everything below is parsed from cv.md when this site is built. The MCP server serves the same file, read-only, with no LLM in between.

Setup

Claude Code terminal
claude mcp add --transport http nidal-cv https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcp
Codex terminal
codex mcp add nidal-cv --url https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcp
Cursor mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nidal-cv": {
      "url": "https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Any other MCP client: add a remote server with https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcp. Then ask, for example: “Has Nidal built MCP servers in production?”

Tools and resources

NameInputReturns
get_profileNoneRead summary, availability, location, remote setup, languages and links.
search_experiencequeryFind up to eight keyword matches in skills, experience and projects.
get_projectnameRead one experience or project by exact name, or list valid names.
cv://nidal-alhaririNoneResource: the complete cv.md, as text/markdown.
  • /cv.mdThe complete profile in Markdown.
  • /llms.txtA guide for agents and the people who use them.

Experience

Raisin SE

get_project("Raisin SE")
Period
2021 to 2026
Organisation
Raisin SE, Berlin (fintech, savings and investment marketplace)
Role
Senior backend engineer, freelance
Summary
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

get_project("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
Summary
Open-source platform used to document human rights violations: Whisper transcription and vision-LLM OCR on its media, full-text search over millions of records, granular permissions, encrypted backups and signed updates. First built on Django, later migrated to Flask. US State Department Internet Freedom Award, 2019.
Technologies
Python · Django · 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

get_project("Level09")
Period
2005 to now
Organisation
Level09 FZE, Dubai (software studio and product company)
Role
Founder and lead engineer
Summary
Built and operate Flowdesk, a deal-flow platform for property developers with LLM features on the Anthropic API, 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

Seven Tides

get_project("Seven Tides")
Period
2005 to now
Organisation
Seven Tides, Dubai (luxury real estate and hospitality developer, Dubai and London)
Role
Technology partner, through Level09
Summary
Corporate and property websites for a luxury developer and hotel owner, including DUKES Hotels and Anantara Residences, plus the sales CRM and client portal.

Al Arabiya

get_project("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
Summary
Led web engineering through the Arab Spring traffic peaks. 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

get_project("SwissMed AI")
Period
2025 to 2026
Organisation
SwissMed AI (mdai.ch), Switzerland (independent medical AI platform for physicians)
Role
Technical Lead, freelance
Summary
Technical lead for SwissMed AI, a physician-led resource on AI in Swiss healthcare: a bilingual directory of 92 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

get_project("Enferno")
Period
2014 to Present
Summary
Flask framework with production authentication. Maintained since 2014, 569 GitHub stars.
Technologies
Python · Flask · Vue 3 · WebAuthn

ReadyKit

get_project("ReadyKit")
Period
2025 to Present
Summary
SaaS foundation on Enferno with workspaces, billing and roles. Sponsored by Chargebee.
Technologies
Python · Flask · Stripe

stk

get_project("stk")
Period
2026 to Present
Summary
Async Python framework designed so coding agents can operate and extend the apps built on it.
Technologies
Python · Quart

OfferBrief

get_project("OfferBrief")
Period
2025
Summary
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

get_project("Qarina")
Period
2026
Summary
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

get_project("Vilcos")
Summary
AI agent built on Agno that creates and maintains websites through chat. Award at the Global Agent Hackathon 2025.
Technologies
Agno

watchd

get_project("watchd")
Period
2026 to Present
Summary
Control plane for AI agent work that funds agent loops by verified outcomes. One Go binary.
Technologies
Go

FigureKit

get_project("FigureKit")
Period
2026 to Present
Summary
Agent-operated visual generation exposed as an MCP server.
Technologies
Cloudflare Workers · TypeScript · MCP · OAuth · Stripe

Frameloop

get_project("Frameloop")
Period
2026 to now
Summary
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

get_project("Zant")
Period
2026 to now
Summary
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, tokens, audit reads and a CLI. Pre-release.
Technologies
TypeScript · Cloudflare Workers · Hono · Drizzle · D1 · better-auth

ZigLag

get_project("ZigLag")
Period
2026 to now
Summary
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

get_project("OpenStadt")
Period
2026
Summary
Open-source platform that shows whether public facilities are distributed fairly across a German city's neighbourhoods: OpenStreetMap data, an equity score per district, an interactive map and an analytics dashboard. MIT licensed.
Technologies
Python · Flask · OpenStreetMap

quart-security

get_project("quart-security")
Period
2026 to now
Summary
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

get_project("NosyAgent")
Period
2025 to Present
Summary
Personal AI assistant with engineered long-term memory: entity extraction, routing between Claude model tiers, Voyage AI embeddings.
Technologies
Claude API · Voyage AI

GermanRat

get_project("GermanRat")
Period
2026
Summary
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

get_project("Flask extensions")
Period
2024 to 2025
Summary
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

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

Awards

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