The memoir
The Weekend Builder
A Life in Code, Ownership, and the Habit of Starting Again
Foreword + 16 chapters32 pages~20,000 words
Download the book330 KBSurat, Gujarat, India·sole owner, 2 SaaS products·8+ years
The Weekend
Builder.
Eight years of shipping things other people use without thinking about who built them. Sole owner of two live SaaS products. Technical lead by day, founder for a year, and — most weekends — still just someone who can't leave a broken thing alone.
a decade of weekends, stylized
Weekdays keep the lights on. Weekends are where things get built.
weekday shipped on a weekend
●401K+ users on ExtendedForms.io
●8.7M respondents processed
●579K forms analyzed
●100K concurrent users at 99.8% uptime
●400K+ exams proctored on Quzo.ai
●3x revenue growth at ExpressTech
●question generation cut from 30 min to 30 sec
●page load cut from 3.2s to 1.2s
●support resolution time cut ~90% on HelpDesk AI
●12+ engineers mentored
●10K+ users, $2M+ volume on BPS Trading
●1 startup founded, closed honestly, lessons kept
●401K+ users on ExtendedForms.io
●8.7M respondents processed
●579K forms analyzed
●100K concurrent users at 99.8% uptime
●400K+ exams proctored on Quzo.ai
●3x revenue growth at ExpressTech
●question generation cut from 30 min to 30 sec
●page load cut from 3.2s to 1.2s
●support resolution time cut ~90% on HelpDesk AI
●12+ engineers mentored
●10K+ users, $2M+ volume on BPS Trading
●1 startup founded, closed honestly, lessons kept
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Who's building this
Bhadreshkumar Malankiya — Senior Full Stack Engineer · Software Architect · Technical Lead.
Full-stack architect and technical lead with 8+ years building and owning production SaaS platforms, AI-powered products, and enterprise systems. Sole technical owner of two live products — ExtendedForms.io and Quzo.ai — while leading engineering at ExpressTech Systems, where he scaled a platform to 100K concurrent users at 99.8% uptime and drove 3x revenue growth. Spent a year as a founder at MB Systems, which added a business and product-ownership lens that shows up in how he scopes, prioritizes, and ships.
Based in
Surat, Gujarat, India
Currently
Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead, ExpressTech Systems
Reach him at
bhadreshm3418@gmail.com
Proof, not adjectives
Two products he owns end to end. One team he leads. One startup he closed honestly.
Numbers pulled from the products themselves — not a résumé exaggerating them.
system status — things he owns live read-out
extendedforms.iolive
sole technical owner · Google Forms analytics + AI
0K+
users
0.7M
respondents
0.8%
uptime
quzo.ailive
founder, built solo · AI exams & proctoring
0K+
exams run
0s
per question, was 30 min
helpdesk-aiweekend build
solo, weekends only · AI support agent
0%
less support time
expresstech systemslive
technical lead since 2022 · platform engineering
0K
concurrent users
0x
revenue growth
mb systemsclosed — lesson kept
founder, 2023–2024 · startup studio
0K+
users on BPS trading
0
interns trained, all placed
Efficiency, measured
The recurring pattern: find the slow part, make it fast, keep the receipts.
Every one of these is a real before-and-after from the products above — not a projection.
Page load
ExtendedForms.io — SSR rebuild + TanStack Query
was 3.2snow 1.2s
Worst-case page load
The one page nobody filed a ticket about — he noticed it anyway
was ~32snow ~5.5s
Exam question creation
Quzo.ai — AI generation replacing manual authoring by hand
was 30 minnow 30 sec
Support ticket resolution
HelpDesk AI — threshold-based auto-reply, built on weekends
was 1–2 daysnow hours
Database response time
Redis caching layer, ExpressTech
was 800msnow 120ms
API response time
Caching + query optimization, HQ Infosystem
was baselinenow −45%
Sole owner — not a contributorTwo products, built from zeroOne founder year, told straight — no dressing up the ending8+ years, zero career gaps12+ engineers mentored, on top of a full-time build load
the same numbers, rendered
A literal chart — because he builds these for a living, at a scale where a slow one is the only kind of slow database a user can actually see.
The memoir
He wrote the whole story down. Sixteen chapters, one foreword, zero straight lines.
From a computer in Surat to sole ownership of two SaaS products — including the year-long startup that didn't survive, told in as much detail as the ones that worked.
The paper trail
The résumé for the facts. The book for the rest.
No signup, no email gate — just the PDFs. The résumé is the six-minute version for a hiring manager; the book is the whole uncut record, all sixteen chapters.
The résumé
Bhadreshkumar Malankiya
Senior Full Stack Engineer · Software Architect · Technical Lead
3 pages8+ years, condensed
Download the résumé143 KBThe stack
Fluent fast, on whatever the next problem requires.
The skill that compounds isn't permanent expertise in one tool — it's the process for becoming fluent in the next one quickly enough that the tool stops being the bottleneck.
13 projects, one connected practice
01 / Languages
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonPHPJavaSQLHTML5CSS3
02 / Frontend
React.jsNext.jsVue.jsAngularJSTailwind CSSMaterial-UITanStack QueryRxJS
03 / Backend
Node.jsExpress.jsNestJSLaravelCakePHP
04 / Mobile
React Native
05 / Databases
PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBFirebaseRedispgvector
06 / Cloud & DevOps
AWSGoogle CloudAzureVercelDockerKubernetesLoad BalancingAuto-Scaling
07 / Testing & QA
JestCypressLighthouseOWASP Security TestingSonarQube
08 / CI/CD & Dev Tools
GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkinsESLintPrettierHusky
09 / Visualization & Animation
HighchartsMapboxThree.jsFramer MotionLenisAnimate.js
10 / AI-Native Dev Tools
v0.devWindsurfCursorAntigravityClaude Code
11 / AI Integrations
OpenAIClaude (Anthropic)GeminiRAG pipelines with pgvector
12 / Third-Party & Business Systems
StripeRazorpayTwilioBinance APIGoogle AdSenseCRMPOSRMSSRPERP
13 / Security & Auth
SSOJWT-based authAES-256 encryptionRFC-compliant security standards
Field notes
Two chapters written directly for people earlier in their own career.
No vague encouragement — the specific things he wishes someone had told him before his first interview and his first job search.
Certifications & recognition
Turing Certified Full Stack DeveloperGDG Mobile Track Winner, 2021TryHackMe — Top 6% Global Rank, 202160+ technical courses across AI, DevOps, cybersecurity, analytics, web development20+ technical articles on Medium, 2K+ followersOpen-source contributor in the React ecosystemSpeaker, "Scalable Architecture," GDG Meetup 2022
The finale
Three products. Three different reasons they exist. Scroll.
One built inside a company, one built entirely alone, one built purely on weekends because a customer shouldn't wait two days for something that simple.
01 / 03 — selected work
quzo.ai
AI SaaS · Sole ownership
Quzo.ai
AI-first exam and quiz platform with proctoring — built from a blank folder, on his own terms.
400K+ student exams handled30s question creation, down from 30 min3 AI providers, one credit systemView project
02 / 03 — selected work
extendedforms.io
B2B SaaS · Sole ownership
ExtendedForms.io
Google Forms analytics and AI extension platform, inside the Google Workspace ecosystem.
03 / 03 — selected work
AI SaaS · Sole ownership
HelpDesk AI
Multi-tenant AI support agent platform with threshold-based auto-reply — built solo, on weekends.
Open to the next thing
I don't know what I'm building next. I know exactly how I'll start — badly, immediately, and without waiting to feel ready.
If you're hiring for something senior and technical, want a sole owner's eye on your product, or just want to talk about charts that lag, I read every email myself.