Rails product engineering
Upgrade and stabilise an existing Rails product.
I help small SaaS teams modernise Ruby on Rails products and repair reliability problems after growth, dependency upgrades or integration changes.
Sprint boundary
- — Existing Rails product with source access
- — One upgrade, reliability problem, performance issue or contained feature set
- — Clear acceptance criteria and owner on your side
Outcomes
What this sprint can cover
- Rails and Ruby upgrades completed with post-upgrade failure repair
- Rails performance work across controllers, jobs, Active Record and caching
- Sidekiq reliability improvements for retries, idempotency and stuck jobs
- PostgreSQL query, index and transaction issues diagnosed and fixed
- Redis and integration reliability improved around stale state and retries
- Contained Rails features and integrations shipped inside a clear boundary
What you receive
- Code changes with tests around the failure or workflow
- Upgrade or implementation notes
- Performance comparison where applicable
- Deployment and rollback notes
- Short handover for the product/engineering team
Not included
- Complete product rebuilds
- Long-term staff augmentation
- Unbounded production support
- Owning your entire Rails roadmap
FAQ
Questions before scoping
Can you handle Rails and Ruby upgrades?
Yes, when the upgrade can be scoped around a known app, target version, test strategy and failure-repair window.
Do you fix post-upgrade failures?
Yes. I focus on contained failures around dependencies, framework behaviour, jobs, queries, caching and integrations.
Can this include a small Rails feature?
Yes, if it is contained and tied to the sprint outcome rather than a full product build.
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