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Prateek
Senior Data Scientist FICO ,
San Francisco
“Algoroq was the first program that made system design finally click. It connects everything — real-world architecture, trade-offs, and why things scale. After this, I’m not just interview-ready — I’m building better systems at work.”
Gabriel Benny
Technology Lead, Grainger,
Chicago
“I had solid engineering skills, but system design was always the gap. Algoroq changed that. It gave me a clear, structured way to think — from caching to failovers — and helped me grow from a strong developer into a real architect.”
Vibhor Mahajan
Senior Site Reliability Engineer,
Transbnk
“I was tired of scattered YouTube videos and vague advice. Algoroq gave me the structure and depth I needed. It’s not theory — it’s how real systems are designed, built, and scaled in production.”
Shubham Rauniyar
Senior Technical Consultant, Deloitte,
“System design always felt abstract until Algoroq. This cohort gave me mental models I now use every week — whether I’m reviewing architecture or leading projects. It’s the most practical learning investment I’ve made in years..”
One cohort. Three disciplines.
Distributed systems, software architecture, and AI-native system design — taught together because that's how they work in production.
What you'll cover
Hands-On High Level System Design
- URL Shortener System Design.
- SAAS product Architecture.
- Ecommerce Platform Design.
- News Feed System Design.
- File Transfer Systems.
Stripe / PayPal / Google Pay — Low Level System Design
- ACID, atomicity, consistency, idempotency.
- Schema design and API flow for critical financial operations.
- Webhooks, retries, reconciliation and payment batching.
- Security — PCI-DSS, fraud prevention, 3D Secure, KYC/AML.
AI Powered Coding System Design (Cursor / Windsurf / V0)
- Context management, semantic chunking, AST based splitting.
- Tool execution pipelines, sandboxing, token budget awareness.
- Hybrid retrieval, temporal relevance scoring, output validation.
- Function invocation routing, ephemeral tool containers, execution graphs.
Social Media & Big Data Architecture
- Data architecture basics for high availability systems.
- Solving big data challenges (warehouse, lakes, lakehouses, dimensional modelling).
- User flows, detailed estimations, component prioritization.
- Blast radius isolation, decoupled service boundaries, cellular architecture.
Geographic Systems — Google Maps + Uber + Food Delivery
- Geospatial indexing, geohashing, proximity search, matching algorithms.
- Multi-region scaling, latency optimization, eventual consistency.
- Live location streaming, state synchronization, spatial sharding.
- Real time traffic overlays, shortest paths, ETA prediction, dynamic pricing.
Stock Market Systems (Robinhood, NASDAQ, NYSE)
- Ticker data ingestion, event streaming pipelines, order matching engines.
- Active-active and active-passive, multi-region georouting, cross region replication.
- Deep dive into EDA, backpressure and throughput handling, deployment strategies.
- Zero trust security, e2e encryption, RBAC, OAuth, OpenID, compliance.
Netflix & Video Platform Infra System Design
- CDN patterns, adaptive bitrate streaming, bandwidth and latency management.
- Protocols (WebRTC, MPEG Dash, QUIC, RTMP, HLS).
- Stream vs Batch processing, processing content streams (unbounded data).
- Monolith to microservice journey with decomposition, data patterns.
OpenAI / Anthropic System Design (Hosted LLM APIs)
- LLM Routing & Model Multiplexing, Prompt Management, MLOps, ML pipeline.
- Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Billing, Model Caching & Response Deduplication.
- GPU Scheduling, Hybrid Serving for multimodal models, Sliding context buffers.
- Egress filtering for jailbreak outputs, model drift detection, hallucination tracking.
Distributed Logger (Datadog / Splunk / Sentry)
- Indexing Deep Dive (B-Trees, B+ trees, LSM Trees, SSTables).
- Log correlation and compaction (LZ4, GZIP), Edge-N Grams, inverted index.
- Adaptive sampling, token bucket, bloom filters, trie-based prefix matching.
- False positives, delta encoding, hash sets, sliding window, levenshtein distance.
Distributed File Storage (HDFS, AWS S3, Ceph)
- Erasure coding, Reed Solomon, consistent hashing, distributed hash tables.
- Data integrity with checksum, encryption at rest and transit, AES-256, TLS.
- Raft, Paxos and Quorum based writes, sequential vs random read/writes.
- Data deduplication, Merkle Trees, protection against DDoS.
AI Agents and Orchestration Platform System Design
- AutoGen / CrewAI / OpenAI Operators / LangChain Agents deep dive.
- DAGs, Model Context Protocol, multi-LLM collaborative agent workflows.
- ReAct Loop, CoT, observable reasoning chains, recovery paths, agent memory.
- Reflection, tool composition, prompt injection prevention, tool protocol schema.
Decentralized Messaging System (Matrix / Signal)
- Diffie Hellman, X3DH, Double Ratchet, Zero Knowledge Proofs, BFT.
- End-to-End Encryption, Elliptic Curves and Key Exchange with ed25519.
- Federated networks, DHT, Kademlia, Relay nodes, IPFS, libp2p, MLS.
- Gossip protocols, proof of work, opportunistic peer relay and swarm storage.
Who it's for
Senior Engineers (5+ years)
You build features daily but want to think at the architecture level. This track gives you the mental models to design systems, not just implement them.
Tech Leads & Staff Engineers
You're expected to make system-level decisions. This track sharpens your ability to evaluate trade-offs and communicate architecture choices.
Interview Candidates
System design interviews are your bottleneck. This track doesn't teach you to memorize — it teaches you to think like the interviewer.
Weekly schedule
Every Tuesday
Assignment Evaluation8:30 PM IST | 8 AM PST
Every Thursday
AMA Sessions8:30 PM IST | 8 AM PST
Every Saturday
Live Classes8:30 PM IST | 8 AM PST
Coach Spotlight
Akhil Sharma
LinkedIn Top Educator, Founder @Armur (VC Backed)
"What took me 65K hours of tech experience, I'll teach you in 6.5 weeks"
What Your Avg Cohort Looks Like
75%
Senior Engineers
22%
Principal and Staff Engineers
10 Years
Median Work Experience
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Frequently asked questions
Still have questions? Reach out to us at hello@algoroq.com
Is this one of those "tech influencer" cash-grab courses?
No. Akhil's not here to sell you a Notion template and vanish. He's a published author, has 46K+ YouTube subs, taught 200K+ engineers, and built real systems. This cohort exists because engineers kept asking for something deeper. So we built it.
Why is this cohort so expensive? Can't I just read blog posts?
You can. But it's the difference between watching a UFC fight and actually sparring — this cohort gives you pressure, structure, feedback, and live fire. If you want free content, it's everywhere. If you want a system to level up, that's what you're paying for.
I've already watched 50 hours of YouTube videos. Do I really need this?
If watching YouTube alone got you system design mastery, you'd already be leading infra at Stripe. This cohort helps you stop passively consuming and start actively architecting.
Will this help me crack FAANG interviews?
Yes — but not by memorizing patterns. This cohort sharpens the exact thinking FAANGs test for: trade-offs, real-world constraints, how to design systems under pressure. You won't just pass interviews — you'll understand the questions at a deeper level.
What if I'm the dumbest person in the cohort?
Great. That means you're about to learn the most. Also: you probably aren't. Most engineers are just quietly confused but pretending hard.
I've read Designing Data-Intensive Applications twice. Is this just that in disguise?
Nope. This isn't a book club. We go way beyond theory — into actual system breakdowns, trade-offs, and decisions you'd make under pressure. Also: real engineers, real feedback, and live chaos.
Do I need to code during the cohort?
You won't write production code — but you will sketch APIs, data flows, scaling strategies, and think like an architect. If you really want to code, we won't stop you.
What if I realize I'm not as smart as I thought I was?
Perfect. Welcome to engineering. This is a space full of people who are actually smart, but humble enough to admit what they don't know — and hungry to get better. You'll fit right in.
I'm pretty sure Stanford or MIT have a certification on this. Why should I not buy that?
Those programs are great — but they're often broad, academic, and theoretical. At Algoroq, you work on real-world systems like OpenAI-scale infra, Stripe-level payments, and decentralized messaging — guided by an engineer who's built and taught these at scale.
Is this just slides and lectures? Will I fall asleep?
Only if you ignore the hands-on builds, case studies, design critiques, and occasional existential questions about Kafka, Spark and Airflow.
Engineers love us
"The way Algoroq connects real-world architecture patterns with deep technical reasoning is unmatched. It gave me clarity and confidence that no other course ever did."
Amritanshu Mishra
Senior Backend Engineer
"I've done system design interviews before — but Algoroq taught me how to actually design systems at scale. This is what engineering leadership looks like in practice."
Naren Kalekar
Principal Engineer
"Every module in Algoroq made me rethink how I approach design reviews. It's not theoretical — it's battle-tested thinking you can use immediately at work."
Suresh Alex
Software Architect
"I thought I understood distributed systems — until Algoroq showed me where the real gaps were. It's the most practical deep-dive I've done so far."
Chinmay Kulkarni
Engineering Manager
"I was looking for something that could help my team level up in architecture, and Algoroq delivered. It goes beyond just system design — it builds your product thinking, your technical judgment, and your ability to lead high-stakes engineering discussions."
Peter Blay
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
"What I loved about Algoroq is how grounded it is in reality. From consistency models to traffic estimation, this cohort gave me frameworks I now use weekly. Highly recommended."
Aditya Narayan
Senior Cloud Architect
"I joined Algoroq to prep for interviews but ended up learning how to actually architect robust systems. This cohort raised my bar for engineering thinking."
Akshay Nagargoje
SDE-3
"No fluff. No filler. Algoroq gave me the clearest mental models I've seen — from queues to load balancers to observability. It's now part of how I think."
Supriya Shinde
Cloud Solutions Architect
"Most courses feel like slides. Algoroq feels like the real thing. You learn how to build things that won't break when your user base 10x's."
Chandra Prakash
Chief Technology Officer
"There's before Algoroq and after. I now approach architecture with structure, intent, and speed — and that's changed the way I work."
Nishant Singh
Blockchain Architect
"Algoroq fills the massive gap between writing code and building systems that survive real-world scale. It's easily the most impactful cohort I've done."
Sumeet Joshi
Staff Engineer
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