BECOME 10X MORE VALUABLEIN THE POST-AI ERA.
Algoroq is a platform and an academy for senior engineers. Other platforms stop at the interview — Algoroq is built for what happens after you get the job: architecting AI-native systems that scale.
Free forever · no card · $15/mo for Architect — or explore the Academy →
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// THE_PRODUCTS
Two ways in. Pick your pace.
Subscribe to the Platform for continuous learning, or master system design once in the Academy cohort.
Subscription
Platform
The platform that grows every month.
Free · Pro $9/mo · Architect $15/mo
- Every Excalidraw board — one per YouTube video
- Advanced written tutorials & structured learning journeys
- AI architecture review, tech-debt scorer & more on Architect
- New videos join your membership automatically
One-time
Academy
Master system design in the cohort.
$799$1,200one-time
- Advanced System Design Cohort — lifetime access
- 15+ deep-dive sessions, case studies & exercises
- 3 years of Architect platform access included — a $540 value
Prefer to learn live with Akhil? The Live Cohort is available by application.
// THE_CHOICE
This is your moment, Mr. Anderson.
"You take the blue pill — the story ends. You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
You take the blue pill
The story ends here.
- ✕Junior engineers + AI close the gap — fast
- ✕Your value is measured in code output — a commodity
- ✕You stay comfortable… until you're not
- ✕Salary growth stagnates as your leverage shrinks
- ✕You spend time catching up, not setting direction
- ✕In 3 years, you're explaining yourself to someone younger
You take the red pill
See how deep the rabbit hole goes.
- ▸You architect the systems AI builds on top of
- ▸You evaluate AI output — and know exactly when it's wrong
- ▸Your judgment is the layer no model can replicate
- ▸Senior engineers with AI systems knowledge command 1.5–2x salaries
- ▸Companies compete for engineers who think at this level
- ▸Your leverage compounds as AI commoditizes everything below you
Free forever · no card · upgrade to Architect for $15/mo when you're ready
Prefer a guided cohort? Explore the Academy →
// PATH 1 · THE PLATFORM · MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION
Everything you need to become an architect —
growing every month.
One subscription for the full knowledge base, hands-on labs, real case studies, and the AI toolkit senior engineers use at work — with a dashboard that turns your progress into proof you're getting better. Start free, or unlock everything with Architect for $15/mo.
// YOUR DASHBOARD
Welcome back, Neo.
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Continue learning
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Lab · Design a rate limiterCase study · Design a News FeedYour real dashboard — mastery map, interview-readiness, streaks & progress.
// WHAT'S INSIDE
Learning Paths
Three structured journeys
Introduction to System Design
Foundations — computing, networking, databases, the primitives
Intermediate System Design
Caching, queues, sharding, consistency & the interview trade-offs
Advanced System Design
Consensus, LLM infra, multi-region, AI-native architecture
Specialization Tracks
Go deep where it matters
8 architect-level tracks — rolling out through 2026
Case Studies
How Netflix, Uber & Stripe are actually built — interview-style deep-dives with diagrams.
Labs
Do the design, don't just read it. Rubric-graded challenges with instant trade-off feedback.
Review
Five-minute daily spaced-repetition on the concepts & numbers every engineer should know.
Resources
1,183 reference pages — 288 system-design breakdowns, concepts, interview questions & guides.
Architect · AI Toolkit
The AI tools senior engineers use at work
AI pair design assessment, architecture review, schema & API reviewers, a tech-debt scorer — all running on your own Anthropic key. Zero markup, you stay in control of cost.
// TWO PATHS, ONE OUTCOME
That's Path 1 — the Platform: an ever-growing library and AI toolkit, from $0/mo. Prefer a single, structured program you master once and keep for life?
Then there's Path 2 — the Academy. ↓
// PATH 2 · THE ACADEMY · ONE-TIME PROGRAM
One program. Mastered once. Yours for life.
The Academy is a separate, one-time program — the Advanced System Design Cohort. A complete, guided curriculum you finish once and keep forever, with years of Architect platform access included.
// ACADEMY · SYSTEM DESIGN COHORT
Advanced System Design Cohort
42% complete
Taught by AkhilModule 8 · Scaling
Consistent hashing, end to end
We build consistent hashing from first principles — why naive modulo hashing falls apart the moment you add or remove a node, how the hash ring fixes it, and how virtual nodes keep load even across the cluster. Then we trace exactly how Dynamo and Cassandra put it to work in production.
Key takeaways
Course content · 15 lessons
Foundations
Scaling
Distributed Systems
AI-Native Architecture
Putting it together
The cohort experience — deep-dive video lessons, organized start to finish, yours for life.
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Platform
Monthly subscription
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Academy
One-time program · lifetime
Includes 3–5 years of Architect platform
// THE ACADEMY IS FOR YOU IF
We'll talk through your goals before you enrol — no pressure. Here's exactly what the program covers ↓
The complete senior engineer transformation.
3-hour masterclasses, coursework, assignments, and deep reading material — each week dedicated to a single topic. Built for 2025 and beyond.
// CURRICULUM_MATRIX
Problem Solving & Breaking Down Complex Systems
- >MOSCOW framework for requirement prioritization
- >Estimation techniques — users, load, storage, bandwidth
- >Breaking ambiguous problems into bounded sub-systems
- >Trade-off thinking: CAP theorem, consistency vs availability
7 Fundamental Systems Every Senior Engineer Must Know
- >URL Shortener, SaaS Platform, News Feed, Ecommerce
- >File Transfer Systems, Payment Gateways, Messaging
- >Component pattern recognition across all 7 systems
- >From first principles to production-grade design
AI-Native Architecture
- >AI routers, vector DBs, RAG pipelines at production scale
- >Memory systems — short-term, long-term, episodic
- >MCP (Model Context Protocol) deep dive
- >Agents, tool calling, and agentic orchestration patterns
Supercharged Building with AI
- >Prompt chaining and multi-step skill composition for production AI workflows
- >Token budget modeling — cost vs quality trade-offs at production scale
- >Agentic team workflows: spec-to-PR pipelines and review automation
- >Expert-level AI-augmented development: context engineering, not prompt hacking
Breaking Down Claude Code & Codex
- >Context window architecture and code injection strategies for large repos
- >Semantic chunking, AST-based splitting, and call graph construction
- >Dependency analysis, execution traces, and code intelligence systems
- >Shipping production systems with agentic IDEs — from spec to deployment
OpenAI & Anthropic System Design
- >Planet-scale LLM API infrastructure design
- >GPU scheduling, model routing, rate limiting at scale
- >Model caching, prompt deduplication, billing infrastructure
- >Handling millions of concurrent inference requests
Hugging Face / Together AI / Replicate System Design
- >Open-source LLM hosting infrastructure design
- >Inference at massive scale — cold starts, batching, preemption
- >Multi-model serving and dynamic routing strategies
- >Cost optimization for open-source inference workloads
Distributed Systems — Build Real Systems
- >Build a distributed logger (Datadog / Splunk architecture)
- >Build a distributed file storage system (S3, HDFS, Ceph)
- >Raft, Paxos, erasure coding, consistent hashing
- >Indexing deep dive — B-trees, LSM trees, SSTables
Advanced Decentralized Systems
- >Kademlia DHT, Relay Nodes, Gossip protocols
- >Swarm storage and peer-to-peer coordination
- >Libp2p, IPFS, decentralized coordination primitives
- >Building intuition for the systems of tomorrow
Security for Senior Engineers
- >Cloud security, network and app-level hardening
- >Compliance in practice: SOC2, GDPR, ISO 27001
- >SAST/DAST tooling, supply chain security
- >Basic pentesting every senior engineer should know
Making Sure Your AI is Safe
- >Prompt injection, jailbreaking, data poisoning attacks
- >Unauthorized tool calling and memory poisoning
- >Full attack taxonomy and systematic defense patterns
- >Security-first AI architecture from day one
AI Agents, Swarms & Orchestration System Design
- >CrewAI, AutoGen, ADK — deep architecture dive
- >DAGs, agentic collaboration, memory and tool sharing
- >Context compression, re-usage, and state management
- >Designing the orchestration systems of 2025–2030
// WHO_IS_THIS_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
The window is open — not for long
The Live Cohort runs only a few times a year.
Small groups, limited seats. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you the moment the next one opens — waitlist members get first access.
Your Instructor
// the engineer behind the program
Akhil Sharma
LinkedIn Top Educator · Founder @ Armur AI (VC Backed)
What took me 65K hours of tech experience, I'll teach you in 12 weeks.
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Frequently asked questions
> hello@algoroq.io
$What's the difference between the Platform and the Academy?
The Platform is a monthly subscription (Free, Pro $9/mo, Architect $15/mo) for continuous, self-paced learning — a knowledge base, boards, teardowns, and AI tools that grow every month. The Academy is a separate, one-time program: a guided System Design Cohort with lifetime access. They're two independent products; most people start on the Platform.
$What do I get for free?
Create a free account (no card) and you can read the core system-design tutorials, the real-company system-design teardowns, engineering concepts, and a curated set of interview questions. It's a genuine free tier, not a trial.
$What's the jump from Pro to Architect?
Pro ($9/mo) unlocks the full core library — every learning journey, board, premium lesson, case study, and the 500+ interview-question bank. Architect ($15/mo) adds the Advanced system-design path, the specialization tracks, Labs, the pillar deep-dive guides, and the full AI toolkit senior engineers use at work.
$Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. The Platform is a monthly (or annual) subscription with no lock-in — cancel in a couple of clicks from your account and keep access until the end of the period you've paid for. The free plan is free forever.
$Who exactly is this for?
Senior engineers with 3+ years of production experience who want to think at the architecture level — distributed systems, AI-native architecture, LLM infrastructure, and security. If you already write production code and want to design the systems, you're in the right place.
$Will this help me crack FAANG/senior interviews?
Yes — but as a side effect, not the goal. The material sharpens the exact thinking those interviews test for: real-world trade-offs, constraints, and design under pressure. You won't just pass interviews — you'll understand the questions at a fundamentally deeper level.
$Do I need to know AI or machine learning?
No ML background required. We teach you to design and architect AI-native systems — not train models. You need solid engineering fundamentals (3+ years) and curiosity about how the AI systems you use every day are actually built.
$What is the Academy cohort, and is it worth it?
The Academy is an optional, one-time deep program — the Advanced System Design Cohort — with lifetime access to recordings and curriculum, plus years of Architect platform access included. It's the guided, finish-line path for people who'd rather master it once, thoroughly. Most people don't need it to get value from the Platform.
Built for senior engineers. Capped at 20.
Most cohort programs dilute when they scale. We don't. Twenty seats, twelve weeks, one engineer (Akhil) — the math forces depth.
5+ yrs
experience required
Senior, staff & tech-lead engineers only.
20
seats per cohort
Capped for direct instructor access.
36h
live instruction
12 weeks of weekly sessions + async Q&A.
L5+
curriculum target
Patterns expected at FAANG senior / staff interviews.
Alumni from Cohort 001 & 002
"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
The senior engineer the post-AI world cannot replace
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