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The catalog · 32 courses · 633 lessons · 6 tracks

Every course ends in an artifact a reviewer trusts.

Start here · Course 00Engineering Judgment & the Sage Learning OSThe loop every other course runs on: frame → route → map → decide → prove. Turn a messy incident into a decision a reviewer can inspect.16 lessons · 4 modules · ✓ liveEnroll →
50 courses · 33 live
Foundations✓ live
Think Like a Senior Engineer: Concept Maps
Build maps you can defend the edges of — for systems, codebases, and outages.
30 lessons · 6 modulesEnroll →
Engineering✓ live
Programming Fundamentals
Control flow, state, and debugging as a diagnosis discipline — with a debug log artifact.
18 lessons · 2 modulesEnroll →
Engineering✓ live
Backend Engineering
APIs, queues, idempotency, and failure repair under real load. Ends in a production API.
20 lessons · 5 modulesEnroll →
Engineering✓ live
Frontend & Fullstack Product Engineering
Product surfaces with real data flow, accessibility, and request-path judgment.
20 lessons · 5 modulesEnroll →
Data✓ live
Databases & Data Modeling
Schemas that survive review — modeling, constraints, and migration judgment.
20 lessons · 5 modulesEnroll →
Foundations✓ live
Think Like A Senior Engineer: Concept Maps, Real-World Problems, And Proof
turn messy real-world engineering problems into concept maps, decisions, proof artifacts, repairs, and transferable senior-level explanations
30 lessonsEnroll →
Foundations✓ live
Data Structures
Lists, maps, and real data
20 lessonsEnroll →
Foundations✓ live
Git & the Terminal
Version control & the shell
20 lessonsEnroll →
Foundations✓ live
Programming And CS Foundations
move through a codebase from the terminal and leave evidence; write small, tested Python functions and workflows; model simple records with types and dataclasses; use lists, dictionaries, sets, JSO…
20 lessonsEnroll →
AI Engineering✓ live
The LLM API
Calling models like a pro
20 lessonsEnroll →
AI Engineering✓ live
Prompt Engineering
Reliable prompting & evals
20 lessonsEnroll →
AI Engineering✓ live
RAG & Retrieval
Grounded, cited answers
20 lessonsEnroll →
AI Engineering✓ live
Agents & Tool Use
Tool-using AI agents
20 lessonsEnroll →
AI Engineering✓ live
AI Engineering, RAG, Evals, Safety, And LLMOps
complete AI Engineering, RAG, Evals, Safety, And LLMOps with inspectable artifacts, realistic failure repair, proof evidence, explain-back, transfer, and portfolio packaging
20 lessonsEnroll →
Engineering✓ live
System Design
From first principles to staff-level architecture — with real design labs, not just diagrams.
24 lessonsEnroll →
Engineering✓ live
Networking Fundamentals And Advanced Networking
diagnose and design network paths across DNS, HTTP, TLS, routing, load balancing, cloud networks, Kubernetes networking, and security controls
20 lessonsEnroll →
Engineering✓ live
UX/UI And Product Design For Engineers
turn product problems into user journeys, accessible screens, design-system decisions, implemented flows, usability evidence, and metric hypotheses
20 lessonsEnroll →
Engineering✓ live
Course 2: Backend Engineering
complete Course 2: Backend Engineering with inspectable artifacts, realistic failure repair, proof evidence, explain-back, transfer, and portfolio packaging
20 lessonsEnroll →
Engineering✓ live
Course 03: Frontend And Fullstack Product Engineering
complete Course 03: Frontend And Fullstack Product Engineering with inspectable artifacts, realistic failure repair, proof evidence, explain-back, transfer, and portfolio packaging
20 lessonsEnroll →
Engineering✓ live
Course 06: Architecture And System Design
complete Course 06: Architecture And System Design with inspectable artifacts, realistic failure repair, proof evidence, explain-back, transfer, and portfolio packaging
20 lessonsEnroll →
Engineering✓ live
Security And Identity Engineering
complete Security And Identity Engineering with inspectable artifacts, realistic failure repair, proof evidence, explain-back, transfer, and portfolio packaging
20 lessonsEnroll →
Engineering✓ live
QA/SDET And Test Automation Engineering
build test strategy, automated checks, failure triage, quality gates, and release recommendations that reduce real product risk
20 lessonsEnroll →
Data✓ live
Course 04: Databases And Data Modeling
complete Course 04: Databases And Data Modeling with inspectable artifacts, realistic failure repair, proof evidence, explain-back, transfer, and portfolio packaging
20 lessonsEnroll →
Data✓ live
Data Engineering And Analytics Platforms
complete Data Engineering And Analytics Platforms with inspectable artifacts, realistic failure repair, proof evidence, explain-back, transfer, and portfolio packaging
20 lessonsEnroll →
Ship-It✓ live
Enterprise IT, SaaS Administration, And Business Systems
configure identity, roles, workflows, integrations, audit trails, governance, and business-system automations with enterprise-grade proof
21 lessonsEnroll →
Ship-It✓ live
Platform Engineering And Internal Developer Platforms
design golden paths, service templates, CI/CD, IaC, environment workflows, secrets, observability, policy, and platform adoption evidence
20 lessonsEnroll →
Ship-It✓ live
Next.js + Supabase
Ship a full-stack app
20 lessonsEnroll →
Ship-It✓ live
Stripe & Auth
Payments & accounts
20 lessonsEnroll →
Ship-It✓ live
Course 05: Cloud, DevOps, And Production Operations
complete Course 05: Cloud, DevOps, And Production Operations with inspectable artifacts, realistic failure repair, proof evidence, explain-back, transfer, and portfolio packaging
20 lessonsEnroll →
Ship-It✓ live
Observability Reliability And Performance
complete Observability Reliability And Performance with inspectable artifacts, realistic failure repair, proof evidence, explain-back, transfer, and portfolio packaging
20 lessonsEnroll →
Growth✓ live
Engineering Leadership And Staff-Level Execution
lead ambiguous engineering work through strategy, architecture influence, review, execution planning, incident leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder communication
20 lessonsEnroll →
Growth✓ live
Interview Career And Portfolio
complete Interview Career And Portfolio with inspectable artifacts, realistic failure repair, proof evidence, explain-back, transfer, and portfolio packaging
20 lessonsEnroll →
Growth✓ live
Product Execution And Market Feedback
complete Product Execution And Market Feedback with inspectable artifacts, realistic failure repair, proof evidence, explain-back, transfer, and portfolio packaging
20 lessonsEnroll →
Foundations⬜ in production
Programming & CS Foundations
The mechanics beneath every language: memory, state, complexity, and honest debugging.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Foundations⬜ in production
Python Basics
Just enough Python to run every lab in the academy.
4 lessons · 1 moduleJoin to get notified →
Engineering⬜ in production
Architecture & System Design
Tradeoffs, capacity, and written decisions that survive review. Ends in a design packet.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Engineering⬜ in production
Security & Identity Engineering
Threat modeling, auth, and blast-radius thinking grounded in OWASP.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Engineering⬜ in production
Mobile Engineering Deep Dive
Native constraints, offline state, and release judgment for mobile surfaces.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Engineering⬜ in production
QA / SDET & Test Automation
Tests as proof design: what to check, what to skip, and how to defend both.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Engineering⬜ in production
Networking Fundamentals & Advanced
Packets to policies — diagnose the layer, not the symptom.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Engineering⬜ in production
UX / UI & Product Design for Engineers
Design judgment for people who ship: hierarchy, states, and honest interfaces.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Data⬜ in production
Data Engineering & Analytics Platforms
Pipelines, contracts, and the difference between data that moves and data you can trust.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
AI Engineering⬜ in production
AI Engineering, RAG, Evals, Safety & LLMOps
Retrieval, eval gates, failure repair, and shipping AI systems you can defend.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Ship-It⬜ in production
Cloud, DevOps & Production Operations
Deploys, rollbacks, and runbooks — operations as engineering, not ritual.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Ship-It⬜ in production
Observability, Reliability & Performance
See the system before it fails: SLOs, traces, and performance judgment.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Ship-It⬜ in production
Platform Engineering & Internal Dev Platforms
Golden paths and paved roads — build the platform your team actually uses.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Ship-It⬜ in production
Enterprise IT, SaaS Admin & Business Systems
The systems around the software: identity, procurement, and integration judgment.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Growth⬜ in production
Interview, Career & Portfolio
Turn your evidence ledger into offers — interviews as proof presentations.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Growth⬜ in production
Product Execution & Market Feedback
Ship, measure, decide: product judgment for engineers who own outcomes.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
Growth⬜ in production
Engineering Leadership & Staff-Level Execution
Leverage, writing, and decisions at the level where code stops being the job.
20 lessons · 5 modulesJoin to get notified →
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