Fordel StudiosHow to Think Like a Senior Engineer
The part AI can’t do for you.
Five things you walk out with — applied, not just heard.
Each takeaway is something you do, not just something you hear. You leave with the artefact in your own repo.
A repeatable way to choose architecture under real constraints — not slideware patterns.
How to use AI tools without losing the conceptual thread of your own code.
A worksheet-driven method for reviewing your own work the way a senior would.
Decision frames for when to refactor, when to ship, and when to throw it out.
A take-home template you can apply to every project you touch after the workshop.
Who this workshop is built for.
- Junior to mid Indian devs (1–5 years in).
- Self-taught engineers who feel stuck after the first plateau.
- People who can ship features but cannot yet architect a system end-to-end.
- Anyone who wants to know what actually changes between junior and senior thinking.
- Senior engineers with 10+ years — you have already paid this tuition.
- People looking for AI / LLM tutorials or prompt-engineering content.
- People looking for a coding bootcamp or a beginner intro to programming.
If you’re very early in your journey, the Siliguri Developer group is a better fit — meetups, doubt clearance, learning together.
Abhishek Sharma
16+ years building production software for insurance, legal, healthcare, and finance. Founded Fordel Studios. The kind of work where getting it wrong has actual consequences — which is where this way of thinking was forged.
LinkedInCalled in as the firefighter on burning production systems. Shipped under deadlines and team sizes the first team said could not work. The judgement you’ll learn here is the judgement that holds up when the pressure is real.
Built movieoverflow.com. At its peak, it had more unique Indian visitors per month than Netflix had when Netflix first launched in India. Chose to shut it down — and that decision is part of what this workshop is about.
Built a data-labelling tool acquired by P&G for $2M USD. Not as a founder — as the engineer who made the thing worth buying. Engineering judgement creates acquisition-level value.
Mentored engineers who now hold senior positions at Visa, Siemens, and a Singapore-based company. Several started with no coding background at all. The thinking this workshop teaches is the thinking they learned first.
Engineers with 12+ years of experience say watching him code is entertainment. The thinking he uses is what this workshop teaches.
Got offers from Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Netflix. Took none of them. Chose to build instead.
Save your spot — early bird ₹999 (4 of 5 left).
Tell us who you are. Pay via UPI with a reference code we generate for you. We confirm your seat on WhatsApp the same day.
There is a gap between junior and senior engineers — and it is not years.
The difference between a 10× senior and a regular senior is rarely raw experience. It is deliberate practice, and a lot of iteration through mistakes that nobody writes down. This workshop bottles that thinking, so juniors can learn it without waiting a decade for the lessons to find them.
- 19% slower
AI-assisted developers on real tasks — while feeling 24% faster.
METR · 2025
- 27-point gap
61% juniors find the market challenging. 34% of seniors do. The gap did not exist three years ago.
JetBrains · 2025 · 24,534 devs
- −17% conceptual
Drop in conceptual understanding measured after AI-assisted coding sessions.
Anthropic / Shen & Tamkin · Feb 2026
- 2× churn
Code rewritten within two weeks of being written has doubled. Duplication is up 8×.
GitClear · 211M lines analysed
Three hours, hands-on, on your own code.
This is not a lecture. You bring a real project, you do real work on it, and you leave with the project meaningfully improved — and a way of thinking that survives long after the room is empty.
On your own project, not a toy
You bring something you are actually building this quarter. Every exercise is run on your own code — not a hypothetical example.
Structured worksheets
Each segment has a short worksheet you fill out as you go. The worksheets are the take-home. They keep working long after the room empties.
Paired exercises and peer review
You pair with another engineer, trade worksheets, and review each other’s reasoning. Most of what you learn comes from watching a peer make a different call on a problem that looked the same.
Live debrief and take-home template
Every block ends with a live debrief and a template you keep using. You leave with your own code already improved — not a notebook full of notes.
The practical bits.
- DateSaturday, May 16, 2026
- Time2PM – 5PM
- VenueFordel Studios' Office
- Address3rd Floor, Pranami Mandir Rd, Haidar Para
- CitySiliguri 734001
- Capacity15 seats
- MapOpen in Google Maps