Nidal Alhariri

Senior backend and AI engineer · Berlin

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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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# 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 (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.

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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.

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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 (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: 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
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.
Technologies: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis, WebSockets, WebAuthn, Anthropic API, Salesforce API, Docker, Nginx.

### 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, 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