Product Engineering Foundations
Industry-ready product engineers who build real SaaS systems, not tutorial projects.
AI-Powered multi-tenant HRMS — deployed to production.
Learning outcomes
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Module timeline
19 modules across 6 phases. Tap any module to see its topics. P Practical H Hybrid T Theory
Computing & Internet Foundations
4 weeks- Evolution of software engineering
- Product engineering vs traditional development
- SaaS economy & internet businesses
- How tech companies build products
- Software lifecycle
- Engineering roles & teams
- Understanding product architectures
- Product thinking
- How computers work
- CPU architecture basics
- RAM & storage
- Binary representation
- Compilation vs interpretation
- Runtime environments
- Processes vs threads
- File systems
- Virtualization basics
- How the internet works
- Client-server architecture
- DNS resolution
- HTTP & HTTPS
- APIs & web communication
- TCP/IP basics
- CDN fundamentals
- Reverse proxies
- Load balancers
- Network routing
Lab: Trace a real HTTP request end-to-end using browser devtools + Wireshark. Document every hop.
Programming & Engineering Fundamentals
8 weeks- Variables & data types
- Conditions & loops
- Functions
- Arrays & objects
- OOP (classes)
- Functional programming
- Error handling
- Modules
- Async programming
- Event loop
- Promises & Async/Await
- TypeScript fundamentals
- Interfaces & types
- Generics
- Type safety
- Code structure
- Reusable architecture
- Clean code principles
- Engineering standards
- Problem decomposition
- Debugging techniques
- Complexity analysis (Big O)
- Arrays
- Linked lists
- Stacks & queues
- Hash maps
- Trees
- Graph basics
- Sorting & searching
- Recursion
- Linux fundamentals
- Terminal & shell
- SSH
- Environment variables
- Bash scripting
- Git fundamentals
- Branching strategies
- Pull requests & merge conflicts
- Code reviews
- GitHub collaboration
Lab: Build a CLI tool that solves a real problem. Submit via PR with proper Git workflow and peer review.
Database & Backend Engineering
12 weeks- Relational fundamentals
- SQL fundamentals
- Joins & relationships
- Constraints
- Transactions & ACID
- Indexing
- Query optimization
- Database security
- Normalization
- Replication basics
- B+ trees (conceptual)
- WAL basics
- Node.js runtime internals
- Event-driven architecture
- Express.js fundamentals
- REST API design
- Middleware
- Validation systems
- Error handling
- Logging
- File uploads
- Background jobs
- Queue basics
- Rate limiting
- API versioning
- Authentication fundamentals
- Sessions vs JWT
- Password hashing
- OAuth2
- OIDC
- MFA systems
- RBAC
- IAM concepts
- Refresh tokens
- Zero-trust basics
- Redis fundamentals
- In-memory systems
- Caching strategies
- Session storage
- Distributed cache
- Pub/Sub
- WebSockets
- Notification systems
- Email systems
- Audit logging
- Idempotency
- Backend scalability
Phase project: Build a full auth system with RBAC, email verification, JWT refresh, audit logs and Redis session caching. Production-grade, not tutorial-grade.
Frontend & Product UI Engineering
8 weeks- HTML & browser internals
- CSS systems & layout
- Browser rendering lifecycle
- JavaScript DOM
- React fundamentals
- Components & props
- Hooks
- State management
- Routing
- Forms & validation
- API integration
- Frontend security
- Performance optimization
- Next.js architecture
- SSR vs CSR vs SSG
- Frontend authentication
- Role-based UI
- Real-time interfaces
- Dashboard systems
- Design systems
- Search & filters
- BFF pattern
- Micro-frontends basics
- Data tables & pagination
- Search & filters
- File management UI
- Approval flow UI
- Notification UI
- Multi-tenant switching
- Frontend performance optimization
Phase project: Build the frontend for your auth system — admin dashboard, role-based views, real-time notifications. Full-stack connects end to end.
SaaS Product Engineering
12 weeks- SaaS architecture patterns
- Multi-tenancy models
- Tenant isolation strategies
- Organization hierarchies
- Subscription systems
- Billing architecture
- Workflow systems
- Approval engines
- Audit systems
- Enterprise SaaS patterns
- HRMS architecture
- Employee lifecycle management
- Leave & attendance systems
- Payroll architecture basics
- CRM architecture & pipelines
- Reporting systems
- Analytics systems
- Document systems
- Enterprise integrations
- Search systems
- Docker architecture
- Dockerfiles
- Docker networking
- Volumes & persistence
- Multi-service systems
- Container security
- AWS fundamentals
- EC2 & RDS
- S3
- CI/CD basics
- Nginx basics
- Environment management
Phase project (capstone begins): Start building a multi-tenant HRMS — org hierarchy, employee management, leave system, RBAC, audit logs. Dockerized and deployed to AWS.
AI-Native Engineering & Capstone
8 weeks- LLM APIs
- Prompt engineering
- Embeddings
- Vector databases
- RAG systems
- AI agents basics
- AI workflows
- AI cost optimization
- AI evaluation basics
- Add an AI layer to your HRMS
- AI HR assistant (Q&A on employee data)
- Smart search using embeddings
- Workflow suggestions
- Production deployment
- Monitoring & alerting
- Demo-day presentation
Final deliverable: A fully deployed, multi-tenant, AI-integrated HRMS. Production infra, real data flows, live demo. This is your portfolio piece.
Practical labs & phase projects
Lab: Trace a real HTTP request end-to-end using browser devtools + Wireshark. Document every hop.
Lab: Build a CLI tool that solves a real problem. Submit via PR with proper Git workflow and peer review.
Phase project: Build a full auth system with RBAC, email verification, JWT refresh, audit logs and Redis session caching. Production-grade, not tutorial-grade.
Phase project: Build the frontend for your auth system — admin dashboard, role-based views, real-time notifications. Full-stack connects end to end.
Phase project (capstone begins): Start building a multi-tenant HRMS — org hierarchy, employee management, leave system, RBAC, audit logs. Dockerized and deployed to AWS.
Final deliverable: A fully deployed, multi-tenant, AI-integrated HRMS. Production infra, real data flows, live demo. This is your portfolio piece.
Projects you'll ship
Production CLI Tool
A real-world command-line tool shipped through a proper Git workflow — branches, pull requests and peer code review.
Full Auth & Identity System
RBAC, email verification, JWT refresh tokens, audit logging and Redis session caching — production-grade authentication.
Admin Dashboard Frontend
Role-based views, data tables, approval flows and real-time notifications wired end-to-end to your backend.
Multi-Tenant HRMS
Org hierarchy, employee management, leave systems, RBAC and audit logs — dockerized and deployed to AWS.
AI-Powered HRMS (Capstone)
An AI HR assistant, embeddings-based smart search and workflow suggestions on a live, monitored production deployment.
Tools & technologies covered
Career outcomes
This track is built to make you employable at the level above where you started. Pair it with your deployed capstone and public write-ups, and you walk into interviews with proof, not promises.
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