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Tell me about yourself and your goals.

Section 1 — About You

Full name: Email address: Country: City (optional): LinkedIn profile URL (optional): Current role/title (optional): Years of experience in engineering: Current salary range (optional): Target role (optional): Target salary (optional): Current tech stack (languages, tools, cloud, CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, etc.): Type of company you work for:

Startup Scale-up Enterprise Consulting Other

Current level:

Junior Mid-level Mid+ Senior Other

Section 2 — Your Goals

Primary goal for this mentorship (select all that apply):

Become senior-ready

Prepare for a promotion

Increase salary

Improve architecture skills

Improve SRE/reliability skills

Improve DevOps/cloud-native skills

Something else

If "Something else", please describe: What does “senior engineer” mean to you personally? What timeline are you aiming for in terms of your improvement? Are you aiming for a promotion inside your current company or a new job?

Promotion in current company New job Not sure yet

Section 3 — Your Current Skills

Rate your confidence in the following areas (1 = low, 5 = high):

DevOps / Cloud

Linux fundamentals:

1 2 3 4 5

Networking fundamentals:

1 2 3 4 5

Cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure):

1 2 3 4 5

CI/CD pipelines:

1 2 3 4 5

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu):

1 2 3 4 5

Containers & Docker:

1 2 3 4 5

Kubernetes basics:

1 2 3 4 5

Kubernetes advanced (operators, multi-cluster, scaling):

1 2 3 4 5

GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux):

1 2 3 4 5

SRE / Reliability

Monitoring & observability:

1 2 3 4 5

Metrics/logs/traces:

1 2 3 4 5

Alerting strategy:

1 2 3 4 5

Incident response:

1 2 3 4 5

SLIs/SLOs/error budgets:

1 2 3 4 5

Postmortems:

1 2 3 4 5

Architecture

System design:

1 2 3 4 5

Highload concepts:

1 2 3 4 5

Queues & streaming:

1 2 3 4 5

Backpressure & flow control:

1 2 3 4 5

Resilience patterns:

1 2 3 4 5

Cost optimization:

1 2 3 4 5

MLOps (optional)

Model deployment:

1 2 3 4 5

ML pipelines:

1 2 3 4 5

Monitoring ML systems:

1 2 3 4 5

Section 4 — Your Experience

Describe a recent project you worked on: What were your responsibilities? What were the biggest challenges you faced, what decisions did you take to resolve them, and what trade‑offs or reasoning guided those decisions?

Section 5 — Senior-Readiness Assessment

Have you ever written a design document?

Yes No

Have you ever led a technical discussion or decision?

Yes No

Have you ever been on-call?

Yes No

Have you worked with highload or peak traffic scenarios?

Yes No

Have you designed or improved a CI/CD pipeline?

Yes No

Have you designed or improved a Kubernetes setup?

Yes No

Have you mentored other engineers?

Yes No

Section 6 — Your Gaps & Challenges

What do you feel is currently holding you back from becoming senior? What skills do you feel weakest in? What topics confuse you or feel unclear? What feedback have you received from managers or peers? What do you want the most help with?

Section 7 — Your Learning Style

How do you prefer to learn? (select all that apply)

Hands-on tasks

Architecture discussions

Code reviews

Real-world examples

Theory + practice

Mixed

How much time can you commit weekly (hours)? Do you prefer weekly or bi-weekly sessions?

Weekly Bi-weekly

Do you want async support (Slack/Discord)?

Yes No

Section 8 — Logistics

Your time zone: Preferred meeting times (days/time ranges): Availability for the first session: Preferred communication channel: Any constraints I should know about?

Section 9 — Final Questions

What motivates you the most right now? What is the one thing you want to achieve above everything else? How urgent is your goal?

I need to become senior ASAP I want to grow steadily I’m exploring options I’m not in a rush

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