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Engineering Fellowship // 12-Week Sprint

Stop reading toy tutorials. Build, stress-test, and deploy production systems alongside elite builders. Weeks 01–08 track specialization followed by a 4-week cross-functional squad capstone ship.

Enrollment Fee
₹3,000₹2,500INR
₹500 OFF with referral code
Residency Length
12 Weeks
8 Wk Track + 4 Wk Squad
Max Grand Bounty
₹5,000 INR
+ ₹1,000 weekly sprints
Credential
On-Chain
Soulbound Token + LOR

Program Lifecycle

The 3-Phase Production Arc

Every week is designed to replicate enterprise engineering rituals: PR reviews, chaos testing, and live architecture defenses.

WEEKS 01–04

Phase 1: Core Fundamentals, Concurrency & Data Integrity

Scaffold strict monorepos, design RFC-7807 unified error handling, implement database isolation & optimistic locking, and eliminate race conditions under simulated load.

Milestone: Phase 1 Sprint Bounties (₹1,000 INR)
WEEKS 05–08

Phase 2: Distributed Architecture, Caching & Scaling

Redis sliding-window rate limiters, BullMQ background queues with dead-letter retries, EIP-712 cryptographic signatures, offline sync, and chaos failure injection.

Milestone: Phase 2 Sprint Bounties (₹1,000 INR)
WEEKS 09–12

Phase 3: Squad Assembly, Production Capstone & Grand Ship

Assemble into 3-person squads (Frontend + Backend + Web3/Fullstack). Build, audit with Slither, load-test with K6, and deploy live to production before Demo Day.

Milestone: Demo Day Bounties (Up to ₹5,000 INR)

Tracks & Curricula

Choose Your Engineering Discipline

Select any of the 4 core tracks below to inspect its detailed week-by-week technical progression, tasks, benchmarks, and rubrics.

🎨Client-Side & Web3 Reactive

Frontend Engineering Track

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Build high-throughput, layout-stable, optimistic user interfaces with sub-100ms INP and reactive blockchain state.

Architectural Focus

✓Complex Client-Side State: Architectural separation between ephemeral UI state, client cache stores, and server state.
✓Optimistic UI & Rollbacks: Instant user feedback with deterministic rollback strategies on mutation failure and synthetic 500 errors.
✓Web3 Reactive Providers: Seamless interaction with EVM blockchains via Wagmi/Viem, reactive wallet state sync, and RPC failure recovery.
✓Layout Stability & Zero CLS: Pixel-perfect layout stability (CLS = 0) with skeleton states and dynamic asset preloading.
✓Core Web Vitals & Performance: Sub-100ms INP, sub-1.2s LCP, and virtualized rendering for 10,000+ items at steady 60 FPS.

Production Tech Stack

Framework & Runtime
Next.js (App Router)React 19Node.js (LTS)
State & Data Layer
TanStack Query v5ZustandZod
Web3 Integration
WagmiViemConnectKit / RainbowKit
Design System & UI
Tailwind CSSRadix UI PrimitivesLucide Icons
Testing & Quality
VitestTesting LibraryPlaywrightLighthouse CI

12-Week Technical Syllabus

Click any week to inspect core concepts, deliverables, and sprint milestone bounties.

Core Concepts
  • •Strict TypeScript UI components
  • •Zod client-form schemas
  • •Layout skeletons and resilient UI error boundaries
Production Tasks
  • ➔Initialize Next.js project with strict TypeScript settings (noImplicitAny, strictNullChecks).
  • ➔Implement Zod validation hooks for complex nested form inputs.
  • ➔Create reusable skeleton loaders matching content dimensions to eliminate layout shifts.
Deliverable:Form & data-table pipeline that gracefully handles unexpected API error formats (RFC-7807 payloads, null values, malformed arrays) without breaking React layout boundaries.

Track Evaluation Rubric

How code quality, architecture defense, and Demo Day performance are evaluated:

Code Integrity & Test Coverage30%

Comprehensive component & hook tests (Vitest), strict TypeScript checks, zero runtime UI errors.

Architectural Resilience30%

Zero layout shifts (CLS = 0), smooth optimistic rollbacks, robust offline sync, sub-100ms INP.

Engineering & Git Hygiene15%

Conventional commits, component modularity, clean documentation, zero secret leaks.

Presentation & Architecture Defense25%

Clear, professional Demo Day presentation, concise communication, and deep technical answers.

Weeks 09–12 Production Capstone

What Your Squad Ships

Fellows assemble into cross-functional teams to engineer, audit, and benchmark one of three flagship production systems.

📈

Decentralized Orderbook & Escrow

High-frequency off-chain matching engine linked with trustless on-chain multi-token settlement, balance ledgers, and reactive depth chart UI.

FastifySolidityViemWebSockets
Benchmark: Sub-10ms match latency & zero state drift
🏛️

Audited Treasury Vault & Governance

Multi-signature governance portal with Timelock execution controller, quorum tallying engine, role-based RBAC, and telemetry metrics.

Slither CleanFoundry InvariantsNext.js App
Benchmark: 10,000+ invariant fuzz test passes & 0 audit bugs
🎟️

High-Concurrency Gas-Less Ticketing

Flash-sale ticketing engine handling 1,000+ parallel checkouts via Redis queues, optimistic reservations, and EIP-712 gas-less vouchers.

BullMQEIP-712K6 1,000 RPS
Benchmark: 0 double-bookings under 1,000 parallel requests

Incentive Structure

Merit Pool & Bounties

All enrollment fees are directly reinvested into student rewards, cloud resources, and performance bounties.

1st Place Award

Cohort Grand Champion

₹2,500 – ₹5,000 INR

Awarded to the top-ranking squad that excels across architecture defense, zero-regression test passes, and live Demo Day execution.

2nd Place Award

Cohort Runner-Up

₹1,500 – ₹2,500 INR

Awarded to the squad demonstrating outstanding resilience, clean Git hygiene, and robust defensive programming practices.

Systems Award

Systems Benchmark Award

₹2,000 INR

Disbursed to the team that clocks the highest validated throughput (RPS) under K6 stress tests with sub-100ms p99 latency and zero data drift.

Presentation Award

Best Demo Day Defense

₹2,000 INR

Recognizes the squad delivering the clearest architectural defense, live chaos test demonstration, and confident Q&A with judges.

Weekly Sprint Bounties

3x Milestone Sprint Bounties

₹1,000 INR each (Weeks 04, 08, 11)

Instant merit rewards distributed at the conclusion of Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 reviews to celebrate top sprint contributors.

Program Selection

Fellowship vs. Resident Track

Whether you are an advanced builder ready to lead projects or building foundational strength, there is a dedicated path.

FeatureFellowship TrackResident Track
Project FocusLive client modules & internal tech studio toolsGenesis Boilerplate repository & structured sprint tasks
Cohort CapacityStrictly 3 seats per batchOpen to qualified applicants
Selection ProcessGitHub portfolio review + 30-min technical screenApplication & repository intake review
Code ReviewsStrict weekly 1:1 reviews by Studio Technical LeadsAsynchronous cohort feedback & group reviews
University DocumentationJoining Letter, Recommendation Letter (LOR) & CertificateJoining Letter, Recommendation Letter (LOR) & Certificate
On-Chain CredentialVerifiable Soulbound Token (SBT) CertificateVerifiable Soulbound Token (SBT) Certificate
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