Advanced Front-End Development
Advanced Front-End Development
At BuildUp Bootcamp, you will gain hands-on experience in critical aspects of Front-End Web Development with TypeScript, which will help you to deliver high-quality products from scratch to the market. The program requires about 10-12 hours per week and takes place only during evening hours (~19:00-21:00).
During the course of 16 weeks, you will practice how to effectively build websites using modern JavaScript UI frameworks, use type-safe GraphQL APIs, write automated UI tests, apply performance improvements and other optimizations in your app, and deploy and monitor your project in a cloud environment. At BuildUp, you will use AWS, and at the end of the Bootcamp, you'll have experience with all services necessary for Front-end application deployment, including but not limited to, AWS Amplify, Route 53, S3, and Cloudfront.
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Skills you will build up
You will become a rockstar Front-End Developer able to design, deliver, and grow products of any complexity for any market.
You will be able to think critically and effectively, thriving in solving problems and reducing the level of ambiguity for your team.
You will learn how to find and fulfill the needs of your market, product, and team.
You will become effective at finding the multiple solutions for your task at hand, offer alternatives with different pros and cons, and to help the team decide on the best one.
You will learn how to communicate effectively with various stakeholders within an organization. As a front-end dev, you will interact with various if not all parts of the code and will have to explain to relevant teammates in simple and efficient ways.
You will learn how to execute on a daily basis, ruthlessly prioritizing and delivering.
You will learn how to design and build the product experience that does the job for your users and makes them want to stay and use the product.
You will learn how to measure success and optimize your and your team’s efforts over time.
Who can join the program?
This program is designed for mid-level Front-End Developers who aspire to become rock stars in their work and is not suitable for people who are just beginning their journey in Front-End Development.
You should have:
- Worked with a team to develop and ship a small product feature.
- Worked with a developer and product team to understand, design, and ship code that matches your stakeholders’ requirements.
- Worked with a product designer to convert their visions into code.
- Developed and shipped a product or a feature of your own but weren’t able to grow the customer base for it.
- Didn’t have a chance to define the product development and growth strategy.
- Executed daily on product development with a cross-functional team.
- Regularly faced prioritization challenges.
- Find problem solving a rewarding and necessary part of your daily work.
- Like to be in new and unknown territory where you have to learn things from scratch.
You are not good fit if:
- Haven’t worked as a front-end developer professionally.
- Haven’t been a part of a full development life cycle including initial setup, development, deployment, and continuous improvement.
- Have no experience collaborating with others on a team including other developers, product managers, designers.
- Only want to do exactly what you are assigned or told.
- Don’t want to learn new skills or different ways to do what you already know.
- Don’t want to have to learn from or teach your peers.
- Don’t want to spend time to understand precise requirements coming from all members of your cross-functional team, or don’t want to spend time and effort to make sure that your other teammates understand the technical information you are trying to relay.
The most practical method
Education at BuildUp is work-driven and focused on functional skills. You’ll apply what you learn in practice — building and delivering real products with cross-functional teams.
Moreover, your team has full ownership of the product. Check out these products already created at BuildUp.
Here is a rough timeline showing all the tasks you’ll learn to accomplish during your BuildUp education. Besides solving these challenges, you’ll also develop a comprehensive understanding of other professions in relation to your own. Such experience will be very useful as you get promoted and begin working with more professionals from other disciplines.
Explore the full program schedule:
The skill tree of the program
Community — your key to accelerated growth
At BuildUp, we're building a modern educational culture that redefines how community and learning come together.
Being part of any BuildUp program means you’ll have access to our community of world-class professionals. With every new program we launch and every batch we start, your network will get stronger and your growth will accelerate.
This is your career boost
Live Case Studies Each Week
Each week, you will go deeper by attending a live online session via Zoom where the tutor will walk through a real-life scenario applying the concepts you learned. Live sessions are 2 hours and take place weekly during a cohort. Hear how industry leaders from companies like Tripadvisor, Tinder, Uber, and more have addressed similar challenges.
Work in Team and Peer-to-peer Culture Learning
Every week there will be optional opportunities to connect with peers in the cohort solving similar problems to you. Join a small group to discuss applying the concepts, attend/host a community deep-dive session on a special topic, or discuss questions within the forum and Slack.
Apply the Problem Solving Methodology
Translate the frameworks to your company with active, hands-on exercises, worksheets, and weekly micro-projects. Expect to spend about 2 hours a week on active learning. A plan for action: Build a plan that you can take back to your company. Start small, achieve results, and amplify your impact.
Who will lead the program
Tutor
Trey is a Software Engineering Manager at Pindrop Security. His tenure includes teaching several full-stack engineering bootcamps for Trilogy at George Washington University and Georgia Tech as well as working as a full-stack engineer for Silicon Valley giants LinkedIn and Google, news giants The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Boston Globe, and high-end clients such as LG, Coca-Cola, and Hilton through the consulting firm iCrossing.
Reasons to apply
An evening program
BuildUp is flexible. If you have free hours in the evening after work, you can easily learn with us, and your main job won’t suffer. You will need to learn 6 hours per week of online content with only 2 hours of live calls with tutors, and then it is an offline meeting with your team in a local Co-working space in Yerevan.
You think you have a top job and salary...but do you?
Sure, if you are a VP of Engineering at Microsoft, you can ignore this. But if you want to be one in the next 10 years, please apply here.
Consumed by your “Levi” every night?
You don't want to work a second job your whole life, right? Why not learn now and upgrade your salary, so you can better enjoy life.
You’ll own the product
This is not just another internship. You’ll build a product with the team, and you’ll own the product with your team.
Your current learning from seniors is too slow
You may be learning in your current job. And it might be enough if you want to become a professional in 3-5 years. At BuildUp, you can do it in 4 months and with a whole new perspective.
And these other points to consider
All of our tutors are top-level professionals. We teach mindset, so you’ll learn critical thinking and complex problem-solving. You’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary team solving real-life problems. And eventually, see the incredible community that will mentor you.