Senior → Staff + AI Architect · 24-week roadmap¶

–day streak

–tasks done

–behind plan

–current week

Today¶

Day 24 · Week 4 — Orchestrator-workers, AI-assisted dev, stack — interview-1 · 120 min

System Design · 45 min · Interview framework refresh: practise requirements + estimation opening for 'design Pastebin' in 10 min, recorded → Interview framework & back-of-envelope estimation · resource w04-sd-1
DSA · 25 min · Valid Parentheses + Min Stack → Stack & monotonic stack · resource w04-dsa-1
Python · 20 min · Rep: asyncio.Semaphore + bounded queue for backpressure on concurrent LLM calls → asyncio in depth: TaskGroups, cancellation, backpressure w04-py-1
Communication · 30 min · Grammar: Conditionals and modals for hedging and softening → Week 04 drills · day 1 w04-comm-1

8 unfinished task(s) from the last 7 days — see Today.

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Consistency¶

The map¶

gantt
    title 26 weeks · Sat 26 Sep 2026 → Sun 28 Mar 2027
    dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD
    axisFormat %d %b
    section Phases
    0 Baseline                     :p0, 2026-09-26, 2d
    1 Foundations refresh          :p1, 2026-09-28, 4w
    2 RAG + Evals                  :p2, after p1, 4w
    3 Agents + Protocols           :p3, after p2, 4w
    4 Production & AI architecture :p4, after p3, 4w
    5 Scale & depth                :p5, after p4, 4w
    6 Capstone + interview loop    :p6, after p5, 4w
    7 Buffer                       :p7, after p6, 2w
    section Checkpoints
    Mock 1 :milestone, 2026-10-25, 0d
    Mock 2 :milestone, 2026-11-22, 0d
    Mock 3 :milestone, 2026-12-20, 0d
    Mock 4 :milestone, 2027-01-17, 0d
    Mock 5 :milestone, 2027-02-14, 0d
    Mock 6 :milestone, 2027-03-14, 0d

Where to go¶

Start here

The brief, how the system works, weekly rhythm, rules, the week-0 baseline.

Start here
Roadmap

Phases with exit gates, and 27 day-by-day week pages generated from the curriculum.

Roadmap
Agentic AI & LLM engineering

29 topics from context engineering to MCP, LangGraph, evals, guardrails, serving and fine-tuning.

Agentic AI
System design & AI system design

Distributed-systems depth, 9 case studies, 12 AI system design walkthroughs.

System design · AI SD
Architecture · Python · Java/Spring AI

DDD, hexagonal, sagas, modernization; expert Python; Java 25 + Spring AI 2.0.

Architecture · Python · Java
Communication & English

A 30-minute drill every day: grammar, vocabulary, idioms, speaking, writing and soft skills, with a baseline and re-tests.

Communication · Weekly drills
DSA · Staff+ skills

NeetCode-250 pattern path with spaced repetition; strategy, influence, STAR bank.

DSA · Staff+
The capstone project

The Agentic Ops Copilot — built as you go through the Agentic AI chapter, six phase projects, all with rubrics.

Capstone
Interview prep

Lives at the end of the Staff+ chapter: six checkpoints on one rubric, mock prompt banks, AI mock-interviewer prompts.

Interview prep
Reading & trends

Daily auto-feed, curated digest, newsletters, papers, and a living tech radar.

Reading · Radar