Skip to content

COMPLETION.md

Latest commit

 

History

History
480 lines (330 loc) · 6.89 KB

COMPLETION.md

File metadata and controls

480 lines (330 loc) · 6.89 KB
Raw

🚀 Master Roadmap: Forward Deployed Engineer (2026)

🎯 Final Career Goal

Become an engineer who can:

  • Build Full Stack Applications
  • Design APIs and Databases
  • Solve DSA Problems Efficiently
  • Deploy Applications on AWS
  • Build CI/CD Pipelines
  • Use Docker & Kubernetes
  • Develop Mobile Apps
  • Understand Core CS Fundamentals
  • Work across Software, Cloud, Infrastructure and Product

Current Learning Stack

Full Stack

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • MongoDB

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Linux
  • Git & GitHub
  • Jenkins
  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CloudFormation

Programming

  • Java
  • DSA

Learning Priority Order

Phase 1 (Current)

DSA + React + AWS

Daily:

  • DSA (2 Problems)
  • React (1-2 Hours)
  • AWS (1 Hour)

Target:

  • Finish Love Babbar Java DSA
  • Finish React
  • Reach AWS Kubernetes Module

Phase 2

Backend + SQL

Learn:

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • MongoDB
  • REST APIs
  • Authentication

SQL:

  • Joins
  • Subqueries
  • CTE
  • Window Functions
  • Indexes
  • Transactions

Target:

  • 75 SQL Problems

Phase 3

Core Subjects

DBMS

Target: 30 Questions

Topics:

  • Keys
  • Normalization
  • ACID
  • Transactions
  • Indexing
  • Replication
  • Sharding

Computer Networks

Target: 30 Questions

Topics:

  • OSI
  • TCP/IP
  • DNS
  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • CDN
  • Load Balancers
  • WebSockets

Operating Systems

Target: 30 Questions

Topics:

  • Process
  • Thread
  • Scheduling
  • Deadlock
  • Memory
  • Virtual Memory
  • Synchronization

OOP

Target: 25 Questions

Topics:

  • Encapsulation
  • Inheritance
  • Polymorphism
  • Abstraction
  • SOLID Principles

Phase 4

DevOps Completion

Finish:

  • Jenkins
  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

Target:

Deploy Real Projects

Phase 5

React Native

Build:

  • Notes App
  • Expense Tracker
  • Full Stack Mobile App

Project Roadmap

Project 1

Full Stack MERN

Features:

  • Authentication
  • CRUD
  • File Upload
  • Role Based Access

Deployment:

  • AWS EC2
  • Nginx
  • MongoDB

Project 2

DevOps Pipeline

GitHub → Jenkins → Docker → Kubernetes → AWS

Project 3

React Native + MERN

Mobile Client

  • Shared Backend

Core Subject Targets

Subject Questions
SQL 75
DBMS 30
OS 30
Networking 30
OOP 25
System Design 25

DSA Target

Topic Problems
Arrays 30
Strings 25
Linked List 20
Stack & Queue 20
Binary Search 25
Trees 30
BST 20
Graph 30
Dynamic Programming 40
Backtracking 15

Total:

300+ Problems

AWS + DevOps Roadmap

AWS:

  • IAM
  • EC2
  • S3
  • RDS
  • DynamoDB
  • CloudFront
  • Route53
  • VPC
  • CloudFormation
  • 3-Tier Architecture

DevOps:

  • Linux
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • Maven
  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

Weekly Study Plan

Area Hours
DSA 10
Full Stack 12
AWS/DevOps 8
Core Subjects 4
React Native 4
Projects 6

Total:

40-45 Hours/Week

Before Applying for Jobs

Checklist:

  • 300 DSA Problems
  • 75 SQL Problems
  • React Completed
  • Backend Completed
  • AWS Completed
  • Docker Completed
  • Kubernetes Completed
  • Linux Completed
  • 3 Full Stack Projects
  • 1 DevOps Project
  • 1 React Native App
  • Resume Ready
  • GitHub Portfolio Ready
  • → DONE [X]

Rule

Do NOT add more courses.

Finish:

  1. Love Babbar DSA
  2. AWS + DevOps
  3. Imran Sir Linux
  4. Aimerz Full Stack
  5. React Native
  6. Core Subjects
  7. Projects

Then focus on:

  • Internships
  • Open Source
  • Interview Preparation
  • Job Applications

Consistency > More Courses. That's a compelling mission, and the open-source angle makes it quite different from most ed-tech platforms.

Your core idea seems to be:

Students learn by teaching.

Anyone can contribute lessons, notes, explanations, projects, and learning paths. The platform is open source, community-driven, and rewards contributors based on the value they create for learners.

This is backed by a real learning principle: teaching a concept often exposes gaps in understanding and helps people retain knowledge better.

A stronger vision

Instead of positioning it as "another course platform," position it as:

The GitHub of learning.

Where:

  • Students create courses.
  • Students improve other students' courses.
  • Lessons are versioned.
  • Content can be forked and improved.
  • The best explanations rise to the top through community feedback.

What contributors could add

Not just videos:

  • Written explanations
  • Visual diagrams
  • Flashcards
  • Quizzes
  • Practice problems
  • Project walkthroughs
  • Interview preparation guides
  • Learning roadmaps

Many students can explain concepts well without being comfortable recording videos.

Reputation system

Rather than paying people immediately, start with reputation.

For example:

  • Course completions → points
  • High ratings → points
  • Accepted edits → points
  • Quiz contributions → points
  • Community mentoring → points

Similar to how GitHub and Stack Overflow built contributor ecosystems.

Quality control

This is the hardest part.

You need:

  • Community review
  • Peer verification
  • Upvotes/downvotes
  • Contributor reputation
  • Expert moderators for advanced topics

Otherwise low-quality AI-generated content will overwhelm the platform.

Open-source architecture idea

You could model content like:

Course
 ├── Module
 │    ├── Lesson
 │    ├── Quiz
 │    └── Resources
 └── Contributors

Each lesson has:

  • Author
  • Revision history
  • Community ratings
  • Completion analytics

Just like code has commits and pull requests.

First MVP

Build only:

  1. User profiles
  2. Course creation
  3. Markdown lessons
  4. Video embedding
  5. Ratings
  6. Course completion tracking
  7. Contributor leaderboard

Skip:

  • Certificates
  • Payments
  • Complex AI features
  • Gamification

Potential long-term impact

If executed well, the platform could become a place where:

  • Students document what they learn.
  • Others improve those explanations.
  • Knowledge becomes community-owned.
  • Contributors build teaching and communication skills.
  • Recruiters can discover strong communicators and educators.

The most important question is not "Can I build it?"

It's:

"Why would a student contribute instead of posting the same content on YouTube, GitHub, or their blog?"

If you can create a strong answer to that-through reputation, collaboration, discoverability, and learning-focused incentives-you may have something genuinely differentiated.