Zakarya El Quaroui

Zakarya El Quaroui

I build stuff online and write on LinkedIn

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1,815 followers on LinkedIn

Projects

Things I build and ship on my own time.

BankConvert

Live

Turns bank statement PDFs into clean CSV/Excel, ready for accounting.

In beta

KitaPhone

Live

SaaS phone system — numbers, call routing, and call handling for small teams.

Building

Bento Portfolio

Live

This site. Next.js 16, Tailwind v4, shadcn registries.

Open source

Experience

Indie Hacker · BankConvert

Oct 2025 — Present
  • —Building and shipping self-hosted web tools and automation workflows solo.
  • —Run the infrastructure end to end: Kubernetes clusters, Dockerized apps, CI.
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

AI Support · Part-time · TELUS International

May 2022 — May 2023
  • —Reviewed and corrected AI model output against quality guidelines. (Ireland, remote)
  • Data annotation
  • QA

Web Developer · Freelance · Swey

Jan 2022 — May 2022
  • —Built and shipped client web front-ends. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • CSS

Activity

Articles

Skype is gone. The need for international calling isn't.

Building
Why I started building KitaPhone from Malaysia.

Progress rarely looks dramatic

Indie hacking
What building BankConvert taught me about small weekly improvements.

Shipping on a laptop from Kuala Lumpur

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The unglamorous logistics of running infra from a timezone nobody shares.

Kubernetes for one person

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Yes it is overkill. Here is why I keep it anyway.

PDFs are a hostile format

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Notes from parsing a few thousand bank statements.

Charging money on day one

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The free tier that never converted, and what replaced it.

Let's work together

Got something worth building? Mail is the fastest way to reach me.

beardnetworks@gmail.com

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