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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Degree · 2023
B.S. Communication Engineering
Lebanese International University
Bootcamp certificate · 2025
Full Stack Software Engineering Bootcamp
SE Factory · Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation
Course certificate · 2026
Building with the Claude API
Anthropic Academy
Verify Building with the Claude API (opens in a new tab)Course certificate · 2026
Introduction to Model Context Protocol
Anthropic Academy
Verify Introduction to Model Context Protocol (opens in a new tab)Course certificate · 2026
Introduction to Agent Skills
Anthropic Academy
Verify Introduction to Agent Skills (opens in a new tab)Certificate · 2025
AI Starter Kit Professional Certificate
American University of Beirut × ZAKA
Course certificate · 2025
Elements of AI for Business
MinnaLearn · University of Helsinki
Verify Elements of AI for Business (opens in a new tab)Certificate · 2024
Full Stack Web Developer Professional Training Diploma
ACBPT · Apex Center
Verify Full Stack Web Developer Professional Training Diploma (opens in a new tab)Enter credential ID 695ACTM on the lookup page
Course certificate · 2024
Flutter Essential Training: Build for Multiple Platforms
Course certificate · 2024
Introduction to Dart
LinkedIn Learning
Verify Introduction to Dart (opens in a new tab)Course certificate · 2024
React JS: Hooks, State, Router and Redux
Languages
- Arabic Native
- English Professional
Contact
Let's build
Available for freelance AI projects, and open to the right full-time role