🧭 Shaped SWE 2026: Home
Mission
In 24 weeks (plus a 2-week buffer, 28 Sep 2026 → 28 Mar 2027), go from a 0–2 year engineer to someone who can design, build, ship, scale, and explain a production system end to end. That is the level a high-paying product MNC hires for at SDE-1 to SDE-2. Pace: ~40 hrs/week · Primary languages: Java (DSA + Spring) and Go · Glue: Python
Start here
- Read How to Learn (Read-Build-Write-Teach) (10 min). It explains how this vault works.
- Fill in your Skill Matrix honestly. It shows where you actually stand.
- Open Master Timeline and today’s week.
- Set up your routine from Daily & Weekly System.
- Skim Orbit - Overview and Orbit - Use Cases. Everything you learn gets applied in this AI workflow and agent platform.
- Read Cognitive Drills and the Grading Rubric. Every week has a graded assignment, a lab, and a thinking drill.
🗺️ Roadmap
- Master Timeline: the week-by-week plan with dates
- Phase 1 - Foundations · W1–W4
- Phase 2 - Backend Engineering · W5–W9
- Phase 3 - Distributed Systems & System Design · W10–W14
- Phase 4 - Cloud Native, Ops & Data · W15–W18
- Phase 5 - AI Engineering · W19–W22
- Phase 6 - Interview Mode · W23–W26
- Visual maps:
Roadmap.canvas(plan) ·Orbit Architecture.canvas(capstone)
🧠 Mindset (read these first and reread often)
Engineering Thinking Framework · Optimization Principles · Trade-offs Cheat Sheet · Design Docs & ADRs · Debugging Methodology
📚 Knowledge tracks
🛰️ Capstone: Orbit (AI Workflow & Agent Platform)
Orbit - Overview · Orbit - Use Cases (12 AI use cases) Orbit v0 - Building Blocks → Orbit v1 - Core Platform → Orbit v2 - Durable Workflows → Orbit v3 - Cloud Native → Orbit v4 - Agents, RAG & MCP → Orbit v5 - Scale & Polish
🎯 Assignments, labs & drills
| Phase | Weekly assignments | Boss fight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Assignments - Phase 1 | 1BRC in Java + Go |
| 2 | Assignments - Phase 2 | 200 streaming chats: fix 2 bottlenecks |
| 3 | Assignments - Phase 3 | Chaos Day: 0 lost runs, 0 duplicates |
| 4 | Assignments - Phase 4 | Production Day in the cloud, < $10 |
| 5 | Assignments - Phase 5 | Red-Team Day on your own agents |
| 6 | Assignments - Phase 6 | Mock loop |
| Labs Index · Open Assignments · Cognitive Drills · Grading Rubric |
🎯 Interview
Interview Strategy · Behavioral & STAR · Resume & Applications · Mock Interview Log
📖 Resources
Books Library · Courses & Channels · Engineering Blogs & Papers · Emerging Tech 2026
🗂️ Vault conventions
Journal/: daily notes (template: Daily Note)Notes/: your own atomic concept notes (template: Concept Note). This is where the real learning happens.99 Templates/: Daily, Weekly Review, Book Note, Concept Note, DSA Problem, System Design Case, ADR- Tags:
#status/todo#status/doing#status/done·#revisefor spaced repetition ·#interview-q