The Specialist Who Went Deep and Came Out the Other Side as a Lead SDE

Before the Switch#

Syed Rizwan was a Specialist at Bristlecone, a supply chain consulting firm that works with some of the world's largest companies. He had consulting experience and real-world technical exposure. But Lead Software Engineer at Persistent Systems, a company that is synonymous with product engineering excellence, was a different ask entirely. It required the kind of in-depth Spring Boot mastery that consulting work rarely demands.

Syed decided to build that mastery properly, from the ground up.

The Point Where Things Had to Change#

There is a difference between using Spring Boot on a project and truly understanding it. Consultants often end up in the first category: familiar with the framework in specific contexts, able to work within existing codebases, but not fluent enough to architect systems from scratch or lead a team through complex backend challenges. Syed wanted to be in the second category.

He enrolled in Coding Shuttle's Spring Boot 0-100 program and went through the full journey, from the fundamentals all the way to the advanced distributed systems concepts that senior engineering roles at companies like Persistent Systems expect.

Where Coding Shuttle Came In#

The structure of the 0-100 program was what made it valuable for Syed. It was not a collection of loosely connected topics. It was a progression that built a complete mental model of Spring Boot development, each concept reinforcing the ones before it and setting up the ones that followed. That kind of coherent structure is what allows complex ideas to actually stick rather than blur together after a few weeks.

In Syed's Own Words#

"Spring Boot 0 to 100 is a well-structured course that delivers in-depth, practical insights into Spring Boot development, making complex concepts easy to grasp and apply."

Where He Stands Today#

Syed Rizwan is now a Lead Software Engineer at Persistent Systems in Bangalore. He went in as a specialist in one domain and came out leading engineers in another. His review is precise and confident, which is exactly how he approached the learning itself. The result speaks for itself.