Stage 01
Foundations
The honest filter on certs, courses, DSA, system design, and AI engineering.
Which certs actually matter (and which to skip)
Which developer certifications recruiters actually filter for in 2026 — AWS SAA, CKAD, Terraform Associate — and which ones (Coursera, Udemy bundles) are a waste of money and time.
AWS certs done right: SAA and Developer Associate
How to pass AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) and Developer Associate from India — the Stephane Maarek + Tutorials Dojo combo, exam-day VPN tips, and the order that works.
Free resources that beat paid bootcamps
The free curriculum (CS50, The Odin Project, freeCodeCamp, MIT 6.006) that outperforms Scaler/Masai/Newton — what to do in what order to land remote jobs from India.
System design roundup + DDIA — the only path that works
How to actually learn system design for remote interviews — Designing Data-Intensive Applications, ByteByteGo, and the 30-system list. Why one-week crash courses fail.
LLM / AI engineering path: RAG, agents, MCP
The 2026 AI engineering path for Indian devs — RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, Anthropic MCP, evals. What to build, what to skip (fine-tuning), and which roles hire.
LeetCode patterns that actually show up + the 20-min struggle method
The 14 LeetCode patterns covering 80% of remote interview questions, plus the 20-minute struggle-then-solution method that actually builds problem-solving (not memorization).
Learn-by-building tracks: build an MCP server, build a RAG pipeline
Skip tutorial hell. The 4 build-tracks (MCP server, RAG pipeline, payments integration, realtime app) that teach more than any course and double as portfolio.
Run your own 60-day job-search sprint
The 60-day sprint structure that turns scattered applying into a measurable system — weekly targets, daily cadence, kill-criteria, and the dashboard that prevents burnout.