Pick your path. Earn every level.
University-style freedom: elect the modules you need, clear real prerequisites, and stack eval-gated credentials — never a forced linear course.
100-level · Foundations
200-level · Applied Builder
300-level · Agentic Systems
Systems & Software Architecture
A principal-architect deep dive into designing systems that scale, stay consistent, survive failure, and keep evolving — from quality attributes and tradeoff thinking to distributed systems, resilience, and architectural decision-making.
Backend Engineering: Systems That Scale
A staff-level deep dive into the backend: API contracts, data modeling and query performance, caching, async and event-driven flows, reliability, security, observability, and the economics of scaling.
Data & Machine Learning Engineering
A staff-level tour of the data and ML engineering stack — warehouse modeling, batch and streaming pipelines, data quality, feature stores, training and evaluation, deployment, drift monitoring, and production RAG — taught through mechanisms, real tools, and the dollar-and-latency consequence of getting each one wrong.
Engineering Management & Leadership
A staff-level deep dive into the actual job of an engineering manager — from the IC-to-manager transition through 1:1s, feedback, hiring, delivery, technical strategy, culture, and managing up and across. Every lesson is a concrete situation with a framework you can use on Monday.
Frontend Engineering: Production User Interfaces
A staff-level deep dive into shipping frontend that survives production: rendering models, component and state architecture, Core Web Vitals, accessibility, design systems, data fetching, testing, and deploy/DX — each taught as a mechanism with its cost, failure mode, and guardrail.
Security Engineering
A staff-level tour of how systems get broken and how they get defended — threat modeling, the OWASP vulnerability classes, identity, applied cryptography, cloud and supply-chain security, detection and response, and a secure SDLC that turns controls into tests.
Sales Engineering: Winning Technical Deals
A senior practitioner's playbook for the presales SE: how to partner with an AE, run discovery, demo, and prove value, then survive procurement and land a clean handoff. Built from real enterprise deals, with the arithmetic that decides them.
SRE & Platform Engineering
A staff-level deep dive into running reliable systems at scale: SLOs and error budgets, incident response, observability, CI/CD and progressive delivery, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes operations, resilience engineering, and the platform practices that make the reliable path the default path.
Support & Customer Engineering
A senior-level deep dive into running support as engineering: systematic troubleshooting, incident and outage communication, deflection economics, metrics that resist gaming, and turning recurring tickets into permanent fixes, tools, and proactive prevention.
Technical Program Management
A senior-level deep dive into running cross-org technical programs to delivery: role clarity and influence, decomposition and phased roadmaps, dependency and risk management, technical fluency, executive communication, launch and cutover execution, and program-health measurement.
400-level · Production
Levels are earned, never attended.
Every module ends in an eval-gated assessment; every credential is a pass, not a participation record.