Nidal Alhariri, senior backend and AI engineer in Berlin. 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 (good), German (around 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, Ansible, 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 ### 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, full-text search over millions of records, PostGIS location search and maps, 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, 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 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. 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, Salesforce API, Docker, Nginx, Ansible. ### Seven Tides Period: 2005 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 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 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. 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 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 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 ### 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, tokens, audit reads and a CLI. 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 a German city's neighbourhoods: OpenStreetMap data, an equity score per district, an interactive map and an analytics dashboard. MIT licensed. Technologies: Python, Flask, PostGIS, OpenStreetMap. ### 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 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 ### 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: 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
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, full-text search over millions of records, PostGIS location search and maps, 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.
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.
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. Runs and secures its production servers with Ansible playbooks: provisioning, hardening, firewall rules and fail2ban.
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.
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.
Flask framework with production authentication. Maintained since 2014, 569 GitHub starsOpen source and MIT licensed. The base of ReadyKit, Bayanat and Flowdesk..
SaaS foundation on Enferno with workspaces, billing and roles. Sponsored by Chargebee.
Async Python framework designed so coding agents can operate and extend the apps built on it.
Dubai property intelligence over 1.6M+ transactions: LLM analysis, semantic search on embeddings in pgvector, and an MCP server for agents.
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.
AI agent built on Agno that creates and maintains websites through chat. Award at the Global Agent Hackathon 2025.
Control plane for AI agent work that funds agent loops by verified outcomes. One Go binary.
Agent-operated visual generation exposed as 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, tokens, audit reads and a CLI. 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 a German city's neighbourhoods: 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 AI assistant with engineered long-term memory: entity extraction, routing between Claude model tiers, Voyage AI embeddings.
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.
get_profile()search_experience(query)get_project(name)https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http nidal-cv https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcphttps://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcpcodex mcp add nidal-cv --url https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"nidal-cv": {
"url": "https://mcp.nidalalhariri.com/mcp"
}
}
}