ChatGPT recommended it. That wasn't one of the options in my "How did you hear about the bootcamp?" questionnaire, but it is how some of the participants found me.

We are quietly swapping search for conversation, and the recommendation is only the first half of it. This is exactly what we were seeing at Canva, especially once MCP integrations arrived and the assistant could go past suggesting something to actually doing something.

The skills that got you to Senior are not the ones that get you past it. 2 days, 12 engineers at the first Staff Engineer Bootcamp in Valencia. Different companies, different stacks, same three problems: influence, communication, alignment. None of them purely technical.

Every session was grounded in real challenges that participants brought from their own teams, making the discussions and exercises practical, honest and, at times, surprisingly challenging.

🌶️ In a workplace setting, Junior ≠ Young. Please stop fueling the ageism that is all around the tech industry these days. Junior = someone who has a job at a low-level within an organization Young = having lived or existed for only a short time and not old

The first day we met, I realised he was 40 years older than me, he had plenty of experience in a different industry but had decided to reinvent himself. I was still in charge of directing his work at the company and helping him navigate the role.