The senior skills employers now want first, the four sprints that build them, the team you ship with, the bar your work is held to, and the day you defend it.
AI took over the routine tasks juniors used to cut their teeth on. So employers raised the bar: judgment, communication, leadership, and the ability to direct AI — skills people used to pick up five years in. The Residency is built to give you them now.
Coached every week A live leadership workshop with Ryan Taylor — CEO of Coding Temple, who built the leadership-development programs at Udemy — works the judgment, leadership, and communication directly.
Every one of these is a skill employers say they can’t find in early-career hires. You leave able to prove all six.
Each two-week sprint mirrors a real engineering team — planning, building, reviewing, and a demo at the end. By week eight you’ve been through the full cycle four times.
Every discipline working toward one shared product. You own your lane and you depend on everyone else’s — the kind of experience a solo project can’t show.
APIs, database, auth, and business logic.
UI, integrations, and responsive design.
Threat modeling, security reviews, OWASP.
KPIs, dashboards, and data validation.
Test plans, regression, and bug tracking.
Teams of 5–7, formed by compatibility and shared interest · Scrum Master elected from within
Live sessions are short and on Zoom. The rest is async work on your own time, the way a real remote team runs.
Your work is graded against clear criteria. This is why the proof is worth something: it’s held to a real standard, and not everyone clears it.
The culmination of eight weeks. Your team presents to peers, mentors, and stakeholders — live, with the audience able to try the product themselves.
~1 hour per team · Recorded demos accepted, live explanation recommended · The recording becomes part of your Proof Pack
Twenty seats, four teams of five. If you can build and you need recent proof of it, this is the most direct way to get it.