Houssem Zerrad
Senior Backend & Platform Engineer
I join engineering teams on long-term contracts to build fast, reliable backend and data platforms, and to fix the ones that have become slow or fragile.
Book a 30-min intro call Deel or direct B2B · CET (UTC+1), 4 hours' overlap with US Eastern
What I help with
Make slow paths fast
Endpoints and queries that crept up over months.
Untangle fragile data flows
Pipelines no one can trace or replay.
Make changes safe to ship
Blurred ownership that makes small changes risky.
Cut platform drag
Slow deploys, drifting environments, a growing bill.
Selected results
Building in open source
Themis: governing proposed Kubernetes fixes
I built Themis to separate AI incident investigation from permission to change a workload. Its Go core checks the evidence and policy, asks a person to approve the exact change, then hands it to a separate executor and verifies the result.
Open-source alpha · Go, Python, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes
Read the engineering case study →Stack & domains
- Languages
- Go · Python · TypeScript/Node.js
- Data
- PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · BigQuery
- Platform
- Kubernetes · AWS · GCP · Azure · Terraform · Pulumi
- Domains
- Biotech · Healthcare · SaaS integrations · Marketplaces
Where to go next
Need a senior engineer on your backend or platform?