ALI AFSAH-NOUDEH

Senior AI engineer with 14+ years of shipping software, based in Düsseldorf, Germany, working remote-first. I specialise in production agent systems: DAG-based orchestration, multi-agent architectures, RAG and context construction, MCP servers, and LLM evaluation — plus the safety controls that make LLMs dependable in the real world: structured output validation, prompt-injection defence, hallucination mitigation, and graceful degradation when models fail.

The full-stack years are what make the agents production-grade. I've built everything from C# desktop apps and video-conferencing platforms to React and Vue frontends and FastAPI microservices — so my agent systems ship with fault tolerance, observability, ACID-backed state, async concurrency and cost-aware design, not just clever prompts. Zurvan, my open-source Python agent framework, distils all of that into a composable GAME-loop core.

Off the keyboard I'm a music composer and multi-instrumentalist — my BSc thesis was a musical chord-and-scale calculator, and I've since built a multimodal AI analyser for the modes of traditional Persian music. I'm also a long-time student of psychology, focused on leadership and team dynamics. And yes, I put a Peykan in my portfolio: slow, indestructible, beloved — everything I want my software to be, minus the slow.