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Mahdi Talal

About Mahdi Talal

I'm Mahdi Talal, an AI Engineer at Empire Media in Beirut, Lebanon. I build autonomous AI coding pipelines (one has opened 200+ pull requests) and production MCP servers, including a multi-tenant Google Workspace MCP server used by 15 people.

AI Engineer · Empire Media · Beirut, Lebanon

Available for freelance AI projects, and open to the right full-time role

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Experience

  1. NowApr 2026 – PresentFull-time

    AI Engineer

    Empire Media logoEmpire Media (Viberant Group of Companies) · Remote

    Builds the company's AI platform: an autonomous AI coding pipeline, production MCP servers and agent operations for marketing, accounting and HR teams.

    • Designed and built an autonomous AI coding pipeline that turns labelled GitHub issues into tested pull requests behind gated AI review; it has opened 200+ pull requests.
    • Built a multi-tenant Google Workspace MCP server with its own OAuth 2.1 authorization server: 186 tools across 12 services, used by 15 people.
    • Built the agent-operations layer of the ApplyBoost marketing dashboard, where scheduled Claude agents report runs and raise decisions for people to approve.
    • Packaged Claude Code skills, plugins and hooks into an internal plugin marketplace for non-engineering departments.
    • Built an internal spend dashboard with 17 billing connectors, much of it written through the coding pipeline itself.
  2. Dec 2025 – Apr 2026Full-time

    AI & Software Engineer

    Loadless.ai logoLoadless.ai · Remote

    Built production products for Loadless.ai clients: a delivery dispatch ERP, a multi-tenant booking SaaS and a market-intelligence platform.

    • Built Quicky, a delivery dispatch ERP in production at Quicky: a fair FIFO driver queue, automated WhatsApp dispatch, commissions and payments.
    • Built Chairly, a multi-tenant booking, POS and CRM SaaS for barbershops and clinics with WhatsApp automation and AI hairstyle previews.
    • Built a market-intelligence platform that turns n8n pipelines into branded economic-calendar and news digests for email, WhatsApp, Telegram and Instagram.
    • Shipped containerised deployments with GitHub Actions, Docker and Caddy.
  3. Jul 2025 – Dec 2025Full-time

    AI & Automation Specialist

    Morph Collective logoMorph Collective · Remote

    Built AI products and automations for the new AI division of a Dubai-based digital agency.

    • Led backend development of Pulse, an AEO SaaS that tracks how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Perplexity mention and cite a brand.
    • Designed Pulse's visibility-scoring model and its Stripe subscription billing with plan limits.
    • Engineered an n8n client sync between Phorest and Respond.io with polling and error handling, plus a salon AI chat concierge.
  4. Jul 2025 – Apr 2026Part-time

    AI & Automation Manager

    Skool logoAmir Discoveries (Skool community) · Remote

    Taught AI tools and automation workflows to a Skool community.

    • Ran structured sessions and live Q&A on AI tools and automation workflows.
  5. Jan 2023 – Jul 2025Freelance

    Full-Stack Web Developer

    Freelancer.com logoSelf-employed (Freelancer.com) · Remote

    Built custom web applications and automations for small businesses.

    • Built full-stack web applications for small businesses, from storefronts to management systems.
    • Built n8n scraping and data-collection workflows.

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Available for freelance AI projects, and open to the right full-time role