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Become a Shiny Sports Engineer

R users who want to ship production-grade applications rather than one more dashboard prototype that never leaves a laptop.

Enrolling16 weeks · Foundations to Applied engineering to Capstone and Film Room
The game plan

16 weeks, week by week.

Not a reading list. Each phase carries the skills you work on, what exists at the end of it, and what you can do by then.

Languages and tools across the program
RJavaScriptDocker
Weeks 1 to 4

Foundations

Fluency in the language the rest of the path is written in, and a project structure that survives a second contributor.

In these weeks
  • R and the tidyverse on real sports data
  • Project structure, dependency locking, reproducible reports
  • End-to-end git workflow: branches, review, and QA gates before anything lands
  • Your first application, deliberately small
  • Mentor one-to-one every second week, on your own work
What exists at the end
A reproducible reportA running application
By now you can

Stand up a small application from scratch and hand the repository to someone else without a phone call.

Weeks 5 to 10

Applied engineering

The difference between making dashboards and shipping software, which is mostly architecture and testing.

In these weeks
  • Modular architecture, so two people can work on it at once
  • Testing, and the QA gates a change has to clear
  • Custom components where an off-the-shelf widget will not do
  • Deploy and monitor: containers, caching, scaling
  • Simulated technical interviews, recorded and reviewed
  • Mentor one-to-one every second week, on your own work
What exists at the end
A modular, tested applicationA deployment pipeline
By now you can

Take an application to production and explain every architectural decision in it to a reviewer.

Weeks 11 to 16

Capstone and Film Room

One application with a real user in mind, then the rooms it has to survive.

In these weeks
  • Deployed capstone application, running somewhere public
  • Performance, security, and handover documentation
  • Front-office presentation practice: the recommendation, and the pushback
  • AI orchestration training: planning work for delegation, delegated builds, browser QA
  • Simulated technical interviews, recorded and reviewed
  • Mentor one-to-one every week through the capstone
What exists at the end
The deployed capstoneA handover documentA portfolio writeup
By now you can

Demonstrate a live application to a room, take a feature request in real time, and say honestly what it would cost.

The Coaching Room

Practice with somebody on the other side of the table.

AI coaching is built into the practice sessions. The coach takes the stakeholder's part, and you work the problem in whatever medium the question actually calls for.

What that means literally: AI coaching built into practice sessions, stakeholder simulation where you present to a general manager and defend a decision to a director, and no-code visual builds alongside code builds, because plenty of the work is a sketch or a plan rather than a script.

AI as copilot, not autopilot. We teach you to direct the machine and defend the output. The part that is scarce is not producing an answer; it is knowing whether the answer is right and being able to say why in a room that will push back.

Where it points

The roles this work is hired for.

Named because they are the roles the skills above are used in, not because we are promising you one of them.

Roles this stack is hired for
Analytics EngineerApplication DeveloperData Product EngineerShiny DeveloperFull-Stack Analyst

These are the roles the work in this program is used in. We describe what you build and what you can do with it, and we do not promise a job, a placement, or an interview.

Simulated practice

A clock, a real task, and a room that pushes back.

The part most programs describe and never show. Here is how it actually runs, and the kind of question it runs on.

Practice runs in a timed provisioned environment, the same one the sessions run in. You get a real task and a clock, not a quiz. The session is recorded, and the review afterwards is about the reasoning you showed rather than whether you reached the expected answer.

Scenarios are written the way the question actually arrives
  • The staff needs the lineup tool on phones before Friday's series, walk me through what ships and what waits.
  • An analyst says the app is slow when they load a full season. Where do you look first, and what do you measure?
  • Someone new joins the team on Monday. What do you hand them so they can make a change by Wednesday?
Not into sports?

Then take the method and leave the sport.

Sports is the hook. Building tools that people actually open, and that survive a second contributor, is the method, and every industry with analysts has the same problem.

  • Healthcare Clinical dashboards, where a slow or wrong tool has consequences
  • Fintech Internal tools for people who move money and need to see why
  • SaaS Analytics products shipped to customers rather than to a colleague
  • Research Interactive tools that make a published method usable by others
Running alongside

The spine that does not change by phase.

One-to-one mentor sessions on your own work, fortnightly through the taught weeks and weekly through the capstone. Simulated technical interviews, recorded and reviewed. Front-office presentation practice, where a recommendation meets a room that pushes back. The Film Room once a month, alternating portfolio teardowns and interview preparation from the hiring side. See The Film Room

App Development is the live track running alongside the program, so the weekly sessions and the game plan are pulling in the same direction rather than competing for your evenings.

This program is a defined credential pathway culminating in a verifiable digital badge issued through Credly, a Pearson company. We provide completion records. We are not a degree-granting or accrediting institution. If a formal credential is a requirement for you, this complements an accredited pathway rather than replacing it.

Next step

Start with a conversation.

There is no public price and no checkout on this page. Programs start with a call, because the honest answer is sometimes that the Masterclass is the better place to begin.

Book an application call

A short conversation about where you are now and whether this is the right route. If it is not, we will say so.

Book an application call

Every live room, the recordings, the code, and the environment, behind one door.

Join the Masterclass

See how it is taught first.

Sit in on a live session. It is the fastest way to judge any of this.