In this course, I will share all the (hard-learned) lessons I acquired building and maintaining software used on a daily basis by millions of people.

This course is not theoretical and covers practical topics you go through and can apply in a typical software engineering day to day.

This course will not be about a specific technology but will cover software engineering concepts that are relevant irrespective of the software stack or the computing medium.

Module 1: Code Reviews

This is where we spent most of our times as professional engineers. We will go over how to write pull requests that get quickly approved and how to provide quality code reviews. In the end, we will go over tips on how to write/design elegant code.

Module 2: Outage Management

There is a global outage. Not a single customer can use your product. Your CTO might be texting you and you've never met him/her before. In this module, we will go over what to do during an outage leading to the ultimate goal of turning your service status back to green.

Module 3: Release Management

Great software is deployed software! In this module, we will go over how to safely release software to production and have the right tradeoffs between continuous development/integration and service uptime.

Module 4: Migrations

Work enough as a software engineer and you will need to do a migration. Guaranteed! In this module, we will go over how to safely transition from one system to another and balancing this process with the need to fix bugs and release new features.

Module 5: Project Management

Sprints, Kanban, Backlogs, User Stories, Bugs, etc.. We can spend a whole course just on this but in this module, I will focus over what I found to be a good way to do project management at a software company. I will also share an Asana template you can use with your team.

Module 6: Conducting Technical Interviews

The quality of your team members will ultimately decide how successful your company is. In this module, we will go over how to conduct interviews to get the maximum signals to be able to decide on wether to extend an offer or not to a candidate.

Module 7: Onboarding Team Members

It's your team member first day at work. In this module, we will go over what to do so they ramp up quickly and start contributing in their day to day tasks.

Module 8: Software Engineering Career Ladders

We will end the course by going through the different skills and impact you will need to acquire and do at the different stages of your career. Kind of a roadmap for every stage in your career.