Senior architect who writes & ships in public.
I split my time between consulting for dev-tools and enterprise SaaS teams, publishing essays & video breakdowns for 650K+ monthly technical readers, and mentoring a small cohort of engineers stepping into architecture roles.
I started writing software when I was 14 — copying PHP tutorials to build forum software for a cricket fan club. I shipped my first production system at 16 and made every mistake in the book: no indexes, no backups, no rollback plan. Every one of those mistakes taught me something that still saves clients money today.
I spent my 20s inside teams: payments, analytics, then multi-tenant SaaS. I learned architecture the hard way — the job where the best engineers ask you, “is this actually the problem?” at the right moment, and the best product managers trust you to say “not yet.”
In 2020 I went independent. For a while it was just audits and fractional CTO work. Then in 2022 I started writing publicly about what I was seeing on-site. The essays took off faster than I deserved. Now I split my time roughly 60/30/10 — consulting / content / mentorship.
- BBoring winsPick the technology you’ll still be able to hire for in 5 years.
- SShip in slicesEvery roadmap item must have a 2-week slice that ships and teaches us something.
- HHumans > dashboardsMetrics matter — but SLOs without context are a great way to lie to yourself.
- WWrite everything downADRs, runbooks, postmortems. An undocumented system is one rewrite away.
- BSc. Computer Science, Mumbai University
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- CKA Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- Stripe Press — Builder / Operator Fellowship alum
The boring-but-hard parts of building software at scale.
I’m not a “write every framework” generalist. I’m the person you bring in when the system has started breaking at the seams, the roadmap keeps slipping, or the product-market fit is real but your architecture hasn’t caught up yet.
From dialup PHP forums to systems-for-hire.
- 082008
First paid gig — 16, building PHP bulletin boards for local small businesses on dialup.
- 132013
Started as SWE at a payments company. Saw my first real production Postgres cluster — and the first outage that taught me idempotency.
- 172017
Led first platform team. Built a multi-tenant SaaS kernel that still serves the company 8 years later.
- 202020
Went independent. Fractional CTO + architecture audits for VC-backed startups.
- 232023
Launched the creator side: essays, X threads, video essays on building systems that don’t break at 10×.
- 252025
Split brand cleanly: MayankMODE (creator / motivation / social) + MayankSanghvi.com (B2B consulting / sponsorships).
Services, rates, and deliverables.
Three engagement shapes — architecture review, fractional CTO, and dev-tool GTM. Every item has a price, a deliverables list, and a PDF summary you can take to your CEO.
Four recent engagements, anonymised.
Payments uptime, AI dev-tool GTM, multi-region SaaS perf overhaul, and a scale-up advisory CTO. Outcomes, problems, stacks, and the full decks on request.