Mentorship
Build better. Think deeper.
Practical mentorship for developers and aspiring builders. Learn by understanding how real products are designed, built, deployed, maintained and improved.
How it works
Not a course. A builder working alongside you.
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Learn from real systems
We work through real, production-minded code, including FinStack, our open-source financial infrastructure, not toy examples.
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Understand the why
Every design decision has a reason. We look at the decisions, the trade-offs and what goes wrong, not just the syntax.
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Build something real
The best way to learn to build products is to build one, with someone experienced reviewing how you think.
What we cover
The things that make software work in the real world.
- Backend engineering
- APIs, data, queues and the parts users never see but always feel.
- System design
- How the pieces fit, and how to choose between trade-offs.
- Architecture
- Structuring systems so they can grow without being rewritten.
- APIs & integrations
- Contracts other people can rely on; integrating third parties safely.
- Databases
- Modelling data, transactions, and keeping it consistent under load.
- FinTech & payments
- Ledgers, idempotency, webhooks, reconciliation: money that adds up.
- Production systems
- Deploying, observing and keeping things running.
- Career growth
- Moving from writing code to owning outcomes.
- Building products
- Turning a technical idea into something people use.
- Developers who want to move from tutorials to production work
- Engineers growing into backend, systems or FinTech roles
- Technical founders who want a sounding board while they build
- Aspiring builders with an idea and the will to learn