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Tech 101 – Foundation Engineer

Production-Ready Engineering Capability Program

Delivery Model: Internal Corporate Academy (Customizable)
Format: Cohort-based | Production Simulation | Mentored

Program Overview

Tech 101 is Probits’ foundational engineering capability program designed to transform graduate engineers into production-ready contributors.

Unlike traditional induction programs that focus on theoretical exposure, Tech 101 embeds:

  • Deployment-first discipline
  • DevOps-native workflows
  • Security-by-default engineering
  • Observability & performance awareness
  • Professional communication maturity

The outcome is not certification.
The outcome is a reliable engineer who can ship value safely and predictably.

Strategic Context for L&D Heads

Organizations typically face three challenges with early-career engineers:

  • High supervision dependency
  • Poor DevOps & production readiness
  • Limited accountability & communication maturity

Tech 101 eliminates these through structured capability milestones mapped to real production workflows.

Program Objectives

End-to-End Delivery Discipline

Engineers take a user story from Git branch → CI pipeline → container → Kubernetes → cloud deployment.

Quality & Security by Default

Unit testing, static scans, dependency audits and OWASP awareness become standard habits.

Full-Stack Awareness

Understanding backend APIs, database indexing, frontend integration and deployment environments.

DevOps Ownership

“You build it, you run it” reinforced through deployment simulations and performance testing.

Capability Architecture

Engineering Foundations

  • Java 17
  • Spring Boot REST APIs
  • SQL CRUD & indexing
  • Flyway migrations
  • OpenAPI documentation
Enterprise Relevance: Reduces onboarding friction and code-review rework.

DevOps & Release Discipline

  • Git branching strategy
  • CI pipelines (GitHub Actions)
  • Docker containerization
  • Kubernetes fundamentals
  • Blue-Green deployment drills
Enterprise Relevance: Improves release stability and deployment confidence.

Quality Engineering

  • JUnit 5 & Mockito
  • Test coverage ≥ 70%
  • Integration testing
  • Static analysis
  • Performance testing
Enterprise Relevance: Reduces post-release defect density.

Security Foundations

  • OWASP Top 10 awareness
  • Dependency vulnerability scanning
  • Secure configuration
  • HTTP security headers
  • Basic IAM awareness
Enterprise Relevance: Prevents early-stage security debt accumulation.

Observability & Reliability

  • Structured JSON logging
  • Correlation IDs
  • Prometheus metrics
  • Grafana dashboards
  • Error & latency monitoring
Enterprise Relevance: Builds reliability mindset from year one.

Frontend Integration Awareness

  • React + TypeScript SPA
  • Context API
  • API consumption
  • Authentication basics
Enterprise Relevance: Improves collaboration with frontend teams.

Learning Outcomes

  • Deliver a small cloud-native feature independently
  • Maintain ≥70% unit test coverage
  • Achieve CI pipeline success rate of 100%
  • Deploy containerized apps to Kubernetes
  • Execute blue-green deployment drills
  • Demonstrate secure coding compliance
  • Interpret performance dashboards
  • Communicate technical progress clearly

Enterprise Validation Metrics

Mastery

  • Rubric score ≥ 75%
  • Secure code assessment passed

Practicum

  • CI pipeline success rate 100%
  • Sandbox environment operational

Adoption

  • Zero downtime deployment simulation
  • Logs searchable in observability dashboard

Performance & Security Gate

  • 95th percentile latency < 300ms
  • Error rate < 1%
  • 0 Critical CVEs

Capstone Outcome

Production Simulation Demo

  • Fully deployed feature
  • Observability dashboard
  • Performance report
  • Security compliance summary
  • 8-minute live demo

Validated by mentor panel and engineering reviewers.

Business Impact Summary

  • Reduced supervision load on senior engineers
  • Improved pull-request quality
  • Faster merge cycles
  • Greater deployment confidence
  • Lower early-stage defect injection
  • Improved communication maturity