Developer Roadmaps — The Code World

C#

.NET Backend Specialist

Architect scalable APIs, microservices, and enterprise backends using modern .NET 8/9.

4-6 Months Intermediate Backend Role

01 Weeks 1-4

C# Language Mastery

Deep dive into modern C# syntax, type safety, memory efficiency, and asynchronous execution.

✔ C# 12+ Features & Records

✔ OOP & SOLID Principles

✔ LINQ & Collections

✔ Async / Await & Tasks

🎯 Project 1

Build an async CLI task manager with JSON persistence & error logging.

02 Weeks 5-8

ASP.NET Core Web APIs

Build performant RESTful APIs with dependency injection, middleware, and validation.

✔ Controllers & Minimal APIs

✔ Dependency Injection (DI)

✔ FluentValidation & Filters

✔ OpenAPI / Swagger Docs

🎯 Project 2

Build a secure REST API with JWT token auth and rate limiting.

03 Weeks 9-14

Data & Clean Architecture

Implement robust data access with EF Core and Clean Architecture with CQRS.

✔ Entity Framework Core 8/9

✔ PostgreSQL / SQL Server

✔ Clean Architecture & MediatR

✔ Redis Distributed Caching

🎯 Project 3

E-commerce checkout backend with migrations, transactions & Redis cache.

04 Weeks 15-20

Testing & Cloud Deployment

Containerize services, write automated tests, and ship to the cloud with CI/CD.

✔ xUnit & Moq / Testcontainers

✔ Docker Multi-stage Builds

✔ GitHub Actions CI/CD

✔ Azure App Service / Container Apps

🎯 Project 4

Deploy a containerized microservice with automated GitHub Actions CI/CD.

Core Tech Stack:

C# 12 .NET 8/9 ASP.NET Core EF Core PostgreSQL Redis Docker Azure

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Full Stack Web Engineer

Build production-grade applications from sleek reactive interfaces to scalable cloud databases.

5-7 Months Beginner to Pro Full Stack Role

01 Weeks 1-6

Frontend Foundations & TS

Master modern responsive web layouts, semantic HTML5, and strict TypeScript.

✔ Semantic HTML5 & Accessibility

✔ Modern CSS & Tailwind CSS

✔ JavaScript ES6+ Async

✔ TypeScript Types & Generics

🎯 Project 1

Interactive analytics dashboard with Tailwind CSS and dark mode.

02 Weeks 7-12

Modern React & Next.js

Build fast, interactive user interfaces with React hooks, state management, and SSR.

✔ React Hooks & Custom Hooks

✔ TanStack Query / SWR

✔ Next.js App Router & SSR

✔ Server Actions & Forms

🎯 Project 2

Full-featured SaaS web app with real-time UI updates and data fetching.

03 Weeks 13-18

Backend, Auth & Databases

Architect secure API endpoints, relational database models, and authentication flows.

✔ Node.js / ASP.NET APIs

✔ PostgreSQL & Prisma / Drizzle

✔ JWT / NextAuth / OAuth

✔ WebSockets & Real-time Events

🎯 Project 3

Multi-tenant workspace app with role-based auth and database relations.

04 Weeks 19-24

Testing & Cloud Shipping

End-to-end testing, payment gateway integrations, and automated production deployment.

✔ Vitest & Playwright E2E

✔ Stripe / Payment Processing

✔ Cloudflare / Vercel / Docker

✔ Performance & Core Web Vitals

🎯 Project 4

Production SaaS storefront deployed on Cloudflare/Vercel with Stripe billing.

Core Tech Stack:

TypeScript React Next.js Tailwind CSS Node.js PostgreSQL Prisma Vercel / Cloudflare

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Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Master container orchestration, automated CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud reliability.

6-8 Months Intermediate DevOps / SRE

01 Weeks 1-5

Linux, Bash & Networking

System administration fundamentals, shell scripting, DNS, SSL/TLS, and SSH management.

✔ Linux CLI & Permissions

✔ Bash Scripting & Cron

✔ TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S

✔ Git Branching & Rebasing

🎯 Project 1

Automated server provisioning script configuring firewall, SSH, & monitoring.

02 Weeks 6-10

Docker & CI/CD Pipelines

Containerize complex multi-service applications and automate testing and builds.

✔ Dockerfiles & Optimization

✔ Docker Compose Multi-service

✔ GitHub Actions Workflows

✔ Automated Vulnerability Scanning

🎯 Project 2

CI/CD pipeline with automated linting, tests, container registry push, & releases.

03 Weeks 11-18

Cloud & Infrastructure as Code

Provision reliable cloud architecture using Terraform on AWS or Microsoft Azure.

✔ AWS / Azure Core Services (VPC, IAM)

✔ Terraform Modules & State

✔ Secret Management (Vault / KeyVault)

✔ Reverse Proxies (Nginx / Envoy)

🎯 Project 3

Terraform code to provision a secure VPC, database, and load-balanced cluster.

04 Weeks 19-26

Kubernetes & Observability

Deploy microservices with Kubernetes, Helm, and configure Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.

✔ Kubernetes Pods, Services & Ingress

✔ Helm Charts & GitOps (ArgoCD)

✔ Prometheus Metrics & Alertmanager

✔ Grafana Dashboards & Logging

🎯 Project 4

Production K8s cluster running with automated GitOps deployments and alerting.

Core Tech Stack:

Linux Docker GitHub Actions AWS / Azure Terraform Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana

AI

AI & LLM Application Engineer

Build production-ready AI applications, retrieval-augmented systems (RAG), and autonomous agentic workflows.

4-6 Months Modern Track AI Engineer

01 Weeks 1-4

Python & API Essentials

Python data handling, tokenization concepts, and calling foundation model APIs.

✔ Python 3.12+ Async & Pydantic

✔ OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini SDKs

✔ Prompt Engineering & System Roles

✔ Structured JSON Output Validation

🎯 Project 1

Structured data extraction API that parses messy PDFs into typed JSON models.

02 Weeks 5-8

Embeddings & RAG Systems

Connect LLMs to custom knowledge bases with chunking, embeddings, and vector databases.

✔ Embedding Models & Similarity

✔ Vector DBs (Qdrant / Pinecone / pgvector)

✔ Document Chunking Strategies

✔ Hybrid Search & Re-ranking

🎯 Project 2

Documentation search engine with hybrid semantic search & source citations.

03 Weeks 9-14

AI Agents & Function Calling

Build autonomous agents capable of using tools, executing code, and making multi-step decisions.

✔ Tool & Function Calling

✔ LangGraph / Semantic Kernel

✔ Agent Memory & State Persistence

✔ Human-in-the-Loop Safeguards

🎯 Project 3

Autonomous research agent that searches the web, verifies data, and drafts reports.

04 Weeks 15-20

Production AI & Evaluation

Deploy with low latency, rate limit caching, evaluation benchmarks, and guardrails.

✔ Streaming Responses & SSE

✔ Evaluation Frameworks (Ragas / TruLens)

✔ Cost, Latency & Token Optimization

✔ Guardrails & Injection Defense

🎯 Project 4

Production AI assistant with streaming, automated eval benchmarks, & guardrails.

Core Tech Stack:

Python OpenAI / Gemini Pydantic pgvector / Qdrant LangGraph Semantic Kernel FastAPI Docker