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Mahdi Talal

Mahdi Talal

AI Engineer · Empire Media · Beirut, Lebanon

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.

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 (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 · 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 · 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

    Amir 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

    Self-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.

Skills

AI & agents
Claude API, Claude Code, Model Context Protocol, OpenAI API, LangChain, n8n, pgvector, fal.ai
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, PHP, SQL, Dart
Frontend
React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Redux, Electron
Backend
Node.js, Express, Fastify, NestJS, Laravel, Socket.IO
Data
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Prisma, Drizzle ORM, Redis, BullMQ, Supabase
DevOps & cloud
Docker, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare, Railway, Vercel, AWS, Caddy
Integrations
Stripe, WhatsApp, Telegram Bot API, Google Workspace APIs
Testing
Vitest, Playwright, Jest

Education & certificates

Languages

  • Arabic Native
  • English Professional

Contact

Let's build

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