Advanced Full-Stack Development
Advanced Full-Stack Development
At BuildUp Bootcamp, you will gain hands-on experience in critical aspects of Full-Stack 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 16 weeks, you will practice how to effectively build websites using modern JavaScript UI frameworks, develop robust and predictable APIs, create and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines (CI/CD), 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 be at ease with the most popular services, including but not limited to AWS Amplify, EC2, Lambda, Dynamo DB, RDS, Route 53, Cloudwatch, and Cloudfront.
Become a student
Apply nowWe are accepting applications till the 2nd of May.
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Skills you will build up
You will become a well-rounded Full-Stack Developer able to design, deliver, and maintain products of any complexity.
You will learn the intricacies of JavaScript UI frameworks and be able to judge which rendering technique is best suited for the job.
You will be able to build robust, typesafe APIs and measure their performance and compatibility.
You will have hand-on-experience with different AWS services and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
You will understand how to communicate effectively with various stakeholders in an organization.
You will learn how to manage code changes using versioning systems and CI/CD pipelines.
You will get proficient knowledge of systems observably by applying modern logging, metrics collection, visualization techniques, and understanding concepts related to incident management and alerting systems.
You will become more familiar with software testing practices and understand the importance of investment in proper test coverage even at the early stages of product development.
Who can join the program?
This program is designed for mid-level Full-Stack Developers who aspire to become rock stars in their work, and is not suitable for people who are just beginning their journey in Full Stack 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.
- Worked with analytics but didn’t have a chance to design the analytics for a product.
- 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 full-stack 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, QA.
- 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
Gedas is a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer at Revel Systems, a leading POS provider. Previously he worked in a Japanese Firm in Tokyo and has been a PMC member of the Apache Software Foundation and a contributor to the Apache Cordova open-source project. In parallel to his Software Developer career, Gedas is helping others to acquire programming skills and advance their careers. He has been a part of Udacity, the biggest academy for IT rookies in CEE - Software Development Academy, and now he is leading Full-Stack Web Development courses in CodeAcademy.
Dean
Hamlet is a developer and entrepreneur. Previously, he worked as a full-stack developer at several companies ending with a tenure at Apple where he worked with an evolving and growing cross-functional team to build a CRM for Apple TV+ to manage the product development pipeline for future TV shows, movies, podcasts and more. During this time, he contributed to numerous front-end tools and libraries currently in use at Apple. He led a team of developers and helped elevate their coding ability, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities. Hamlet is a developer, investor, strategic advisor, and a life-long student focused on bringing impactful innovation.
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.
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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.