Staging environment

Software Engineering from the Frontlines

4.7 (37)

3 Days

Cohort-based Course

Learn insights into software engineering gained from developing large-scale products at companies such as Uber, Airbnb, and Microsoft

Software Engineering from the Frontlines

4.7 (37)

3 Days

Cohort-based Course

Learn insights into software engineering gained from developing large-scale products at companies such as Uber, Airbnb, and Microsoft

Hosted by

Georges El Khoury

Software Engineer. Ex: Uber, Airbnb and Microsoft

Georges El Khoury

Software Engineer. Ex: Uber, Airbnb and Microsoft

Previously at

Course overview

Software engineering lessons from the front lines

In this course, I will share all the (hard-learned) lessons I acquired building and maintaining software used on a daily basis by millions of people.

This course is not theoretical and covers practical topics you go through and can apply in a typical software engineering day to day.

This course is divided into three parts:

1) Building Software: Code Reviews, Unit testing, Engineering Requirements Document

2) Maintaining Software: Observability & Monitoring, Outage Management, Release Management, Migrations, Monolith/Microservices

3) Team & Culture: Project Management, Conducting Technical Interviews, Onboarding Team Members, Software Engineering Career Ladders

Who is this course for

Software engineers who want to advance their careers, gain experience and enhance their knowledge and skills

Software engineers who want to learn best practices and apply them back to their development team

Techies who want to understand practical software development processes and methodologies

Software engineers who want to advance their careers, gain experience and enhance their knowledge and skills

Software engineers who want to learn best practices and apply them back to their development team

Techies who want to understand practical software development processes and methodologies

What you’ll get out of this course

Apply new skills in your day to day work at your company

You will be able to directly apply lessons related to code reviews, release management, outage management and other course modules back at your company in your day to day work.

Learn software engineering best practices

Advance your career by leveling up your software engineering skills. Gain experience and knowledge that will help you more effectively build and maintain software products.

What’s included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Georges El Khoury 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

3 live sessions • 51 lessons

Week 1

Jul 16—Jul 18

Jul

Building Software: Live Session & QA

Wed 7/164:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Jul

Maintaining Software: Live Session & QA

Thu 7/174:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Jul

Team & Culture: Live Session & QA

Fri 7/184:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Code Reviews

17 items

Unit Test

1 item

Engineering Requirements Document

2 items

Observability & Monitoring

4 items

Outage Management

1 item

Release Management

6 items

Migrations

2 items

Microservices/Monolith

1 item

Project Management

3 items

Conducting Technical Interviews

4 items

Onboarding Team Members

1 item

How to scale yourself

4 items

Software Engineering Career Ladders

5 items

4.7 (37 ratings)

What students are saying

Meet your instructor

Georges El Khoury

Software Engineer - ex: Uber, Airbnb and Microsoft

I have built, maintained and supported software in production for big companies and early stage startups.

I designed and implemented software that is used on a daily basis by millions of people.

I was the lead engineer on the Uber offer (dispatch) flow - a critical part of an Uber trip - and Uber for Business.

I conducted thousands of code and design reviews, was part of teams that multiplied in size and was the engineer in charge during global outages.

I enjoy writing elegant code and turning ideas into working software.

I write software engineering articles on my newsletter: Software Engineering Tidbits.

I am passionate about teaching and mentoring. It is one of the main reason I am teaching this course. One of the best feedback I get out of this course is I am applying a lot of what I learned in my day to day.

Join an upcoming cohort