Fifteen days to become forward deployed.
A hands-on curriculum every new Welzin engineer ships through before touching production. Nine chapters, built from the work we actually do - Linux fluency, the homelab runbook, Git as conversation, databases without fear, full-stack shipping, pipelines that don't lie, an honest take on the AI stack, the Claude operator's manual that makes the rest 4× faster, an open-source practice that compounds, and a capstone that proves you can ship.
Earn the Welzin Bootcamp certificate.
Be one of the first - 1 engineer has earned it so far. Finish the curriculum, claim yours, and add it to LinkedIn with Welzin as the issuer.
The curriculum
- IDay 1 · 4 min readLinuxShell, filesystem, services, the daily 20 commands.0 / 2 partsOpen chapter →I.Day 1 · 4 minLinux
- Server Setup Recipes
Open chapter → - IIDay 2–3 · 10 min readDevOpsContainers, orchestration, MLOps, AIOps, the Welzin homelab runbook.0 / 6 partsOpen chapter →II.Day 2–3 · 10 minDevOps
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- MLOps
- AIOps
- Cloud Foundations
Open chapter → - IIIDay 4 · 2 min readGit & CI/CDFrom a reviewable commit to a one-click, roll-back-able deploy.0 / 3 partsOpen chapter →III.Day 4 · 2 minGit & CI/CD
- Git
- CI/CD
Open chapter → - IVDay 5 · 5 min readDatabasesSQL fluency, transactions, indexes, vector search.Open chapter →IV.Day 5 · 5 minDatabases
- Outline
- 101 Primer
- Hands-on Checkpoints
- Further reading
Open chapter → - VDay 6–7 · 5 min readFull Stack EngineeringHTTP, REST, Next.js, end-to-end shipping - frontend and backend.0 / 3 partsOpen chapter →V.Day 6–7 · 5 minFull Stack Engineering
- Frontend
- Backend
Open chapter → - VIDay 8–10 · 2 min readAI/ML and Data ScienceOverview + four sub-chapters covering classical ML, LLMs, RAG, agents.0 / 5 partsOpen chapter →VI.Day 8–10 · 2 minAI/ML and Data Science
- Data Science 101
- GenAI 101
- RAG Pipelines
- Agentic Workflows
Open chapter → - VIIDay 11 · 10 min readClaude & SkillsClaude Code, skill authoring, Agent SDK, prompt caching.Open chapter →VII.Day 11 · 10 minClaude & Skills
- Outline
- 101 Primer
- Hands-on Checkpoints
- Further reading
Open chapter → - VIIIDay 12 · 9 min readClient EngineeringThe forward-deployed craft - discovery, scoping, enterprise integration, security posture, acceptance evals, demos.Open chapter →VIII.Day 12 · 9 minClient Engineering
- Outline
- 1. What "forward deployed" means
- 2. Discovery - from a vague ask to a shippable one-pager
- 3. Scoping and the acceptance eval
- 4. Enterprise integration reality
- + 5 more
Open chapter → - IXDay 13–15 · 8 min readCapstone ProjectsSelf-directed, mentor-reviewed - where reading turns into shipping.Open chapter →IX.Day 13–15 · 8 minCapstone Projects
- TL;DR
- What "capstone" means here
- How to pick
- Seven capstone tracks
- Mentorship model
- + 3 more
Open chapter → - XOptional · 13 min readOpen Source ProjectsReading upstream, first contributions, licensing, eight project deep-dives.0 / 9 partsOpen chapter →X.Optional · 13 minOpen Source Projects
- The Linux Foundation
- CNCF
- OpenSearch
- SODA Foundation
- CNAI & AAIF
- + 3 more
Open chapter →
Wrap the bootcamp in 15 days. Then ship in the open.
Graduates roll straight into the WOSS 30-Day Residency - a guided month contributing to the open-source projects Welzin works in (Kubernetes, Airflow, OpenSearch, and friends). The capstone proves you can ship; the residency makes it public.
Fresh-graduate engineers joining Welzin's forward deployed track. Comfortable with one language, new to production.
Read, build, commit. Each chapter ends in checkpoint exercises your buddy will review before you mark it complete.
On Day 16 you ship your first PR to a real customer codepath, without supervision, without surprises.