Become the engineer people trust with hard and impactful problems!
Tech changes fast. AI is the new shiny thing. Hiring market is shaky.
Your real job security is being the person your manager trusts with ambiguous, high-leverage problems.
👉 Here’s the uncomfortable truth: managers don’t promote the “best coder”. They promote the engineer who:
Consistently works on high-leverage problems
Communicates clearly and reduces risk
Is visible to the right people at the right time
Makes the team and business better and faster
This program gives you a practical Career Growth Operating System (CarGOS) - built on "Trust → Value → Visibility → Leverage" framework - so you can:
Stop being the “reliable implementer” and start being seen as a high-impact engineer
Focus on the work that actually moves the business
Make your impact impossible to ignore
You’re not stuck because you don’t know enough tech.
You’re stuck because nobody sees the full value you bring.
Upgrade how you think, communicate, and execute so you become the engineer your manager trusts with the big bets - everywhere, from studios and small startups to Big Tech.
🔒 Secure your career in the age of AI!
🚀 Live course + lifetime access to recordings
🔋Checklists, frameworks and how-to instructions are included
What you’ll learn
By the end of the course, you’ll have a customized operating system for how you work, learn, and grow – mapped to your real job, not theory.
Stop randomly “working harder” and start choosing work that actually moves the needle
Turn everyday tasks into high-impact contributions your manager understands
Keep a running impact log you can use in performance reviews, promos, and interviews
Design a pragmatic productivity system using tools like Workflowy, Logseq, Notion, or Obsidian
Add checklists, SOPs, and micro-systems so discipline doesn’t depend on willpower
Protect your attention and energy for the few tasks that matter most
Learn how senior engineers manage up, sideways, and across teams
Build trust with your manager by being predictable, proactive, and low-maintenance
Influence decisions and mentor others in a way that increases your visibility, not your workload
Set up a learning loop that deepens your expertise instead of scattering your attention
Run small, visible experiments that demonstrate initiative and ownership
Capture your achievements so you always have concrete stories and evidence ready
Understand how levels, titles, and expectations really work across companies
Learn how market dynamics, domain choice, and your positioning
Avoid common myths about productivity, grinding, and “chasing fancy tech”
Learn directly from Alex
Alex Migutsky
Self-taught Software Engineer who got hired as a Senior Engineer by Microsoft.
Who this course is for
Mid-level software engineers who feel stuck, under-titled, or underpaid and want a clear path to Senior+ level impact and recognition
Senior engineers who deliver a lot but struggle to turn that into influence, decision power, or the next level
Ambitious juniors (2+ years experience or equivalent projects) who want to skip years of trial and error and build senior habits early
Prerequisites
Time for experiments
This isn’t a “watch some videos and forget about it” course. It’s designed to change how you work week to week.
Job experience
Ideally, you should have at least 2 years of full-time experience (or 3 different full-time projects).
Openness to change and personal transformation
This is a coaching-heavy course. It will be difficult to integrate all ideas and habits if you feel a lot of internal resistance.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Alex Migutsky in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
35 live sessions • 34 lessons • 8 projects
Week 1
Jan
13
Live: Career Basics
Tue 1/136:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Jan
15
Live: Engineer's Career Path
Thu 1/156:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Jan
17
Optional: Live: Career Basics Discussion
Sat 1/176:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Optional
Jan
12
Orientation
Career Basics
Week 2
Jan
20
Live: Attention OS Structure
Tue 1/206:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Jan
22
Live: Attention OS - Tasks, Projects & AoRs
Thu 1/226:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Jan
24
Optional: Live: Attention OS Homework Feedback
Sat 1/246:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Optional
Framework: Attention OS
Schedule
Live sessions
6-8 hrs / week
Live lectures - up to 2 hours each. Group feedback sessions - up to 4 hours each.
Mon, Jan 12
6:00 AM—7:00 AM (UTC)
Tue, Jan 13
6:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Jan 15
6:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
2-4 hrs / week
The course has several projects that you will try at work and at home. Only one of them is required - it will be a cornerstone habit you will be using weekly or even daily.
Async content
2 hrs / week
Async content is optional. It dives deeper into the topics covered on lectures and provides external references and additional resources.
Testimonials
A year and a half ago Alex became my mentor. During this time my salary has grown 3x, I finally found out what I want from life and what my career goals are.
Roman Ermé
Staff Security EngineerHad an amazing career coaching session with Alex. It's truly something. I've never seen anyone provide so much dense, invaluable information before. In 6 hours of classes, I filled up a large notebook. Simply the best presentation of soft skills topics in my life.
Natalia Davydova
Frontend DeveloperI've worked with Alex for a long time and his influence of me and my career is hard to measure. He helped me understand how I can scale up my influence and move beyond Senior Engineer title to something more meaningful for me. I am happy that he put all that knowledge into a course available for others!
Tim Zadorozhniy
Head of EngineeringI found our conversation about career direction and trust building within a team to be absolutely fantastic. Alex has keen insights to offer and a very realistic view of the situation on the ground at GitHub. He offered very specific actionable advice that I will take to improve as an IC. He distilled complex interpresonal issues into actionable blocks with incredible efficiency. Our coaching session was perhaps the most useful meeting i've had at GitHub.
Felipe Suero
Senior Software Engineer
AttentionBIOS template
Follow-ups
Yurii's progress
Maxim's progress
CarGOS Blueprint
You will learn about all the elements and how they work together during the course
Frequently asked questions
$1,500
USD