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Hire a senior Rails & Go engineer
I'm Al Mokhtar Bekkour — 7+ years building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS in Ruby on Rails and Go. I own features end to end: the database they live in, the integrations they talk to, and the AWS they run on. Remote from Quebec, Canada — available for full-time, contract, or advisory work.
7+ yrs
senior, shipping
40%
faster Postgres queries
1,000+
tenants on one platform
3
products shipped solo
What I help with
Rails & Go backends for multi-tenant SaaS
New services or scaling an existing one — schema design, the multi-tenancy that won't leak, background jobs, and the Go where Ruby runs out of headroom.
Financial integrations
Stripe (incl. Connect/marketplaces), QuickBooks, bank feeds — built idempotent and reconciled so a retry or a partner outage never double-charges or corrupts the numbers.
PostgreSQL performance & query tuning
The dashboard that got slow, the query that scales with your biggest customer's data. Indexes for the access pattern, aggregation pushed into the database, measured wins.
Legacy rescue & modernization
Inherited a codebase nobody understands? I read it before I change it. Migrations, anti-corruption layers, and untangling — with the honesty to tell you what to leave alone.
How I work
I'd rather ship something boring that works than something clever you have to babysit. I read the code before I change it, I build for the retry and the double-billed webhook before they happen, and I leave behind a system your next engineer can understand without me in the room.
Want to see how I think before we talk? I write about the real systems I build — the honest parts included. Read the blog →
Let's talk about your project
Tell me what you're building or what's on fire. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person for it.