Alpha Girls
The deepest technical road: systems at scale, reliability as a discipline, and the strategy skills of engineers whole companies listen to.
Syllabus updated August 2026
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Program Overview
Some engineers choose depth as the career: the people rooms go quiet for when architecture is on the table. Alpha Girls is that road, built for experienced women engineers: system design at genuine scale, data platforms, reliability engineering with SLOs and honest incident practice, platform thinking, ML systems in production, security and compliance leadership, and the technical strategy craft, roadmaps, build-versus-buy, architecture reviews, that turns depth into organizational influence.
The course runs on artifacts: every month produces designs, reviews and documents of the kind staff and principal engineers are actually judged on, and it ends with the capstone, a complete system redesign proposal defended before a hard panel. No fantasy titles and no throne metaphors: scale is an engineering property here, not a personality.
Nine months at two live classes a week plus four to six hours of practice, with two more in hand. Monthly mixed reviews, phase exams, and a final defense that decides the certificate with a free retest. Depth, chosen deliberately.
What Makes This Program Different
- Scale as engineering, not vocabulary: capacity math, failure domains and cost curves done honestly
- Reliability as a discipline: SLOs, incident command and postmortems practiced, not described
- ML systems in production: the operational reality behind the model
- Strategy as craft: roadmaps, reviews and build-vs-buy argued with artifacts
- A senior peer room of women, rare and deliberately built
- Real assessment: artifact reviews monthly and a final panel defense that decides the certificate, with a free retest
Your Learning Journey
Career Progression
Detailed Course Curriculum
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Topics Covered
- Facebook/Google/Amazon architecture deep dive
- Multi-datacenter global infrastructure
- Edge computing at planetary scale
- Real-time systems with <10ms latency
- Handling 1M+ requests per second
- Database systems for exabyte-scale data
- Network architecture for global systems
- Distributed consensus at scale (Raft, Paxos)
- Chaos engineering for critical systems
- Zero-downtime deployment strategies
Projects You Build
- Design Twitter-scale messaging system
- Build Netflix-level video streaming architecture
- Create Uber's global dispatch system
- Implement Google-scale search infrastructure
Practice & Assignments
Daily: Architect systems handling 100M+ users
Topics Covered
- Multi-cloud architecture for Fortune 500
- Hybrid cloud with on-premise integration
- Kubernetes at massive scale (10K+ nodes)
- Service mesh for 1000+ microservices
- Global traffic management (Anycast, GeoDNS)
- Multi-region active-active architectures
- Disaster recovery for critical infrastructure
- Cloud cost optimization saving millions
- Compliance across 50+ countries
- Enterprise security architecture
- Zero-trust implementation at scale
Projects You Build
- Migrate Fortune 500 to cloud (real project)
- Build multi-cloud platform for enterprise
- Design $10M+ cost optimization strategy
- Implement global compliance framework
Assessment
Month 1 check: a capacity-math design exercise defended, plus mixed review
Topics Covered
- Storage engines by workload: the honest decision table
- Partitioning, replication and the consistency you actually need
- Batch and streaming pipelines: when each earns its complexity
- Schema evolution without weekend outages
- Data quality as an engineering property
- Cost curves: where data spend actually goes
Projects You Build
- A data platform design for a stated workload, with the decision table shown
Practice & Assignments
One storage decision re-argued from a real system you know
Topics Covered
- SLIs, SLOs and error budgets that change behavior
- Failure domains: drawing the blast radius before it draws itself
- Incident command: roles, comms and the clock
- Postmortems that are blameless and still honest
- Degradation by design: what fails first, on purpose
- On-call humanely: sustainable operational load
Projects You Build
- An SLO set plus incident runbook for a chosen service
Practice & Assignments
Run one tabletop incident with your batch
Assessment
Month 2 check: a reliability review presented, plus mixed review
Topics Covered
- Profiling before opinions: where time actually goes
- Caching layers and their invalidation debts
- Queueing theory enough to argue with
- Latency budgets end to end
- Cost as a performance metric: the bill is telemetry
- Load testing that predicts instead of reassures
Projects You Build
- A performance investigation with before/after measurements
Practice & Assignments
Profile one real system and write the honest findings
Topics Covered
- Training models on petabyte datasets
- Distributed training across 1000+ GPUs
- Real-time ML inference <5ms latency
- A/B testing ML models at scale
- Feature stores for enterprise ML
- ML pipelines processing TB/hour
- Computer vision for millions of images/day
- NLP systems for 100+ languages
- Recommendation systems like YouTube/TikTok
- Fraud detection processing $1B+ transactions
- AutoML platforms for enterprise
Projects You Build
- Build TikTok-scale recommendation system
- Create enterprise fraud detection saving $100M
- Implement real-time translation for 50 languages
- Design autonomous vehicle ML pipeline
Practice & Assignments
Deploy ML models serving 1B+ requests/day
Assessment
Phase 1 exam: a scale design defended under hard questioning, plus a written mixed paper
Topics Covered
- What a platform is: paved roads, not police
- Golden paths: making the right way the easy way
- Internal APIs and the contracts that keep teams decoupled
- Migration mechanics: how platforms actually get adopted
- Measuring developer experience without theater
- When NOT to build a platform
Projects You Build
- A platform proposal for a real pain, with adoption plan
Practice & Assignments
Interview two engineers about their worst golden-path gap
Topics Covered
- Threat modeling as a design habit
- The security review that teams do not dread
- Secrets, identity and the boundaries that matter
- Compliance translated: what auditors need vs what teams fear
- Incident response for security events
- Building security culture without becoming the villain
Projects You Build
- A threat model and security review for a chosen system
Practice & Assignments
Run one lightweight security review with your batch
Assessment
Month 4 check: platform or security artifact reviewed, plus mixed review
Topics Covered
- Decision records that future engineers thank you for
- Running reviews that surface risk without crushing authors
- The reviewer’s question toolkit
- Disagree-and-commit done honestly
- Review anti-patterns: rubber stamps and ambushes
- A review culture one engineer can start
Projects You Build
- Two ADRs written and two peer designs reviewed in cycle
Practice & Assignments
One review given and one received weekly
Topics Covered
- Total cost of ownership beyond the invoice
- Vendor judgment: lock-in, escape hatches and leverage
- Open source as a strategic dependency
- The wait option: when deferring is the strong move
- Writing the recommendation executives can act on
- Sunk costs and the courage to reverse
Projects You Build
- A build-vs-buy recommendation with the TCO math shown
Practice & Assignments
Re-argue one past build-vs-buy from your own history
Assessment
Month 5 check: recommendation defended, plus mixed review
Topics Covered
- Designing a system where ML and scale pressures meet
- Evaluation, guardrails and rollback for model-driven features
- Data flywheels and their governance
- Cost control when inference is in the hot path
Projects You Build
- An AI-era system design integrating the phase’s judgment
Practice & Assignments
Panel-style questioning practice in pairs
Topics Covered
- Assembling the mid-course portfolio: designs, reviews, recommendations
- Defense practice: hard questions, honest answers
- A cumulative review of phases 1-2
Projects You Build
- The mid-course portfolio, defended in panel
Assessment
Phase 2 exam: portfolio defense plus a cumulative written paper
Topics Covered
- Strategy as diagnosis, policy and coherent action
- Roadmaps that survive contact with quarters
- Sequencing: the order that de-risks everything after it
- Saying no with alternatives attached
- Writing strategy short enough to be read
- Getting non-engineers to fund engineering work
Projects You Build
- A one-page technical strategy for a real system’s next year
Practice & Assignments
Present the strategy to a non-engineer and revise from their questions
Topics Covered
- Migrations as the true test of senior engineering
- Strangler patterns and reversible steps
- The long middle: keeping momentum after novelty dies
- Data migrations without lost weekends
- Deprecation with dignity: turning things off kindly
- Migration comms: the updates that keep trust
Projects You Build
- A migration plan for a real legacy pressure, reversible steps shown
Practice & Assignments
Postmortem one migration you lived through, honestly
Assessment
Month 7 check: strategy or migration artifact defended, plus mixed review
Topics Covered
- Commanding incidents when the org is watching
- Communication under pressure: cadence and candor
- The recovery week: postmortem to prevention
- Leading tired teams without spending trust
- Escalation judgment: when to wake whom
Projects You Build
- A full incident-command simulation, led
Practice & Assignments
One tabletop incident led end to end
Topics Covered
- Mentoring versus sponsorship: the door versus the push through it
- Growing engineers without cloning yourself
- Technical writing that scales your judgment
- Speaking: the internal talk that changes direction
- Being the senior woman in the room, on your own terms
Projects You Build
- One mentee plan and one internal talk delivered to the batch
Practice & Assignments
Mentor one junior from our other courses for the month
Assessment
Phase 3 exam: influence portfolio reviewed, plus cumulative written paper
Topics Covered
- Choosing the system: real pressure, real stakes
- Current-state honesty: what is actually there
- Target architecture with capacity and cost math
- Reliability, security and migration woven in
- The proposal document, executive summary first
Projects You Build
- THE CAPSTONE: a complete system redesign proposal
Practice & Assignments
Daily dossier progress; sections panel-reviewed as written
Topics Covered
- Your proposal, attacked by your peers
- Finding the weakest argument before the panel does
- Revision under pressure
- Final rehearsal
Projects You Build
- The proposal, hardened by red-team review
Practice & Assignments
Attack two peer proposals with rigor and kindness
Topics Covered
- The panel defense: proposal presented, hard questions taken
- A full-course spiral review
- The road on: principal work, and the community that stays
Projects You Build
- The panel defense, delivered
Assessment
FINAL EXAM: the capstone defense plus a written paper mixed from every phase. Passing earns the certificate; falling short earns focused revision and a free retest
Projects You'll Build
Build a professional portfolio with A staff-level artifact portfolio, crowned by the defended redesign proposal real-world projects.
Weekly Learning Structure
Certification & Recognition
Technologies & Skills You'll Master
Comprehensive coverage of the entire modern web development stack.
Support & Resources
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Transform your career with industry-ready skills and job placement support.
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