Mayank Sanghvi
Senior Systems Architect · Advisory CTO (Fractional) · Technical Content Creator
13+ years shipping systems that stay up under 10× load. Also publishes essays and video breakdowns to 650K+ monthly technical readers. Remote · Global · PST-friendly.
Experience (selected)
- 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).
Time spent with each tool
- 17+
PHP / WordPress
2008 – PresentWhere it all began — still maintain a few legacy WordPress engines in operations today.
- 13+
PostgreSQL
2012 – PresentSince the first production cluster I ever watched go down — backbone of every large engagement.
- 10+
Node.js / TypeScript
2015 – PresentFull backend services and modern SaaS platforms backbone.
- 8+
Kafka / Redis / Queues
2017 – PresentHigh-volume event-driven pipelines; multi-region event streaming.
- 7+
Kubernetes / AWS
2018 – PresentCKA-certified; shipped 40+ clusters live.
- 4+
Next.js / React
2021 – PresentStatic sites, streaming architecture, SSR or export-mode blogs — all three sites.
- 3+
Systems Design Docs
2023 – PresentC4 model + ADRs; every review ships with a 40-page PDF deliverable.
Recent engagements
Full case studiesPayments infra — 99.999% uptime target
$0.8M of annual incident-related cost removed; p99 checkout latency down 42%.
AI dev-tool PLG funnel redesign
Activation 31% → 61% in 10 weeks; paid seats 4.2×; Series-A closing 6 months early.
Multi-region SaaS perf overhaul
LCP 3.8s → 1.1s global; API p95 down 68%; retention +14 pp across enterprise tier.
B2B SaaS — advisory CTO engagement
Hired 8 senior engineers on-track; platform rewrite completed 3 months early.