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Accelerator

Backend Engineer Career Accelerator Program

Ship senior backend projects you can defend end to end in a system design interview.

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Message a mentor about fit, prerequisites, or where to start. Replies come on WhatsApp, usually within a day.

  • Curriculum fit, prerequisites, or where to start
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Outcome

What you'll be able to do.

Walk into a senior backend or staff interview with real systems you built and can defend end to end.

  • A resumable file uploader that survives network failure on tight memory
  • A seat reservation system that prevents double-sells under real concurrency
  • A live auction with real-time bidding over websockets
  • A geospatial search service with two indexing strategies
  • An event-sourced ledger that can reconstruct any historical balance

Projects you build

Portfolio pieces you can demo.

Each project ships as real code you run locally, not slides you watch. Walk into your next review with something on screen.

01Project

Google Drive-style resumable uploads

Upload a 5GB video. Kill your wifi halfway through. Resume. It works. The kind of feature most backends quietly break on.

FastAPIS3

You ship: A live demo where you kill the network and the upload keeps going. Interviewers ask how you did it. You have answers.

02Project

Ticketmaster-grade seat reservations

Ten thousand users hitting the same venue at once. No double-sells. No lost seats. A booking system that actually holds under load.

PostgresFastAPIRedis

You ship: A benchmark that shows your system under 10k concurrent requests. A writeup of every lock you tried. Senior-hire material.

03Project

Your own OpenRouter

A drop-in LLM gateway. Your app calls one endpoint. It routes to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini with failover, cost caps, and a live dashboard per team.

FastAPILiteLLMPostgres

You ship: A real tool your current team could adopt tomorrow. Shows you think about cost, reliability, and abstraction, not just endpoints.

Curriculum

What's inside.

  1. 01

    Backend engineer career accelerator program

    Become the backend engineer who can defend every design choice in a senior interview.

  2. 02

    Streaming APIs with Server-Sent Events

    Ship a streaming backend that keeps clients responsive and cancels work the moment a user disconnects.

  3. 03

    Handling file uploads with FastAPI

    Accept audio, PDF, and image uploads safely with FastAPI and clean up when the LLM call fails.

  4. 04

    Building multi-provider LLM apps with OpenRouter

    Swap OpenAI, OpenRouter, Gemini, and Ollama behind one chat() function with automatic fallback.

  5. 05

    Deploying AI applications with FastAPI and Docker

    Production FastAPI patterns for AI apps: SSE, jobs, CORS, probes, logs, Docker, graceful shutdown.

  6. 06

    Enterprise RAG infrastructure with Kubernetes and Ray

    Ship a RAG service that survives real production traffic on Kubernetes.

Who it's for

Is this for you?

Mid-level backend engineers

who want to cross the line into senior without faking system design

Engineers preparing for interviews

who are tired of memorizing answers they do not really understand

Self-taught developers

who shipped features but never owned the hard systems

What you'll earn

Ship it, earn it.

Systems Builder

Ship systems under real constraints

Tradeoff Fluent

Defend every design choice

Career Accelerator

Complete the program

Pricing

Pick the path that fits.

Self-paced forever, or mentor-led when you want live feedback.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this program for?
Mid-level backend engineers who want to cross into senior or staff without faking their way through system design interviews. You should already have shipped at least one backend service to production or staging.
How is this different from the Backend Engineer Bootcamp?
The bootcamp takes you from zero to shipping a full backend stack. The accelerator assumes you already ship backends and teaches the harder problems: concurrency under load, event sourcing, idempotency, cache stampedes, and microservice tradeoffs.
What kind of systems do I actually build?
A resumable uploader, a seat-locker that prevents double-sells under concurrency, a live auction with websocket bidding, a geospatial search service, an event-sourced ledger, and more. Every project ships with two real approaches and a written tradeoff.
Will this help me in system design interviews?
That is the whole point. Each module ends with you being able to walk into an interview with a real system you built and a written justification for why you chose approach A over approach B. No more hand-waving.

Pick your next step.

Ship senior backend projects you can defend end to end in a system design interview.

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Backend Engineer Career Accelerator Program

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