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Design Systems that deliver business value
A 10-week live cohort course for senior engineers and architects to master system design through a business lens - risk, ROI and stakeholder impact included.

  • Unlock Your Career Potential

    Engineers often find it challenging to advance in their careers or secure high-impact, rewarding jobs. This is usually because they focus primarily on the technical aspects of their roles. While technical skills are crucial, they are merely tools to achieve what engineers are truly paid for: solving business problems through technology.

  • Maximize Your Impact

    Engineers at different levels contribute in varied ways, from handling single components to overseeing entire solutions. The greater your impact, the higher your position and compensation. Senior and Staff Engineers, who influence systems and entire solutions, must design efficient, business-aligned systems.
Bridging the Gap Between Technology and Business
Typical system design courses teach technical skills but often overlook the connection to business problems. This course fills that gap, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and addressing business priorities with technical approaches. Learn to go beyond load balancing options and performance tactics by focusing on solving real business challenges.
For Business Leaders

As an Engineering Manager, Director of Engineering, or VP/CTO, you may have experienced projects running late or missing critical functionality. This course helps your team become more business-oriented, ensuring that technology choices align with business needs. This leads to higher quality, reduced time to market, and increased customer satisfaction.
For Engineers and Engineering Managers

Middle and Senior Engineers aspiring to grow into leadership roles will gain essential system design skills. Engineering Managers will learn to govern technical projects better and communicate effectively with their teams.
How the course works
10 live sessions
Interactive weekly lecture packed with real-world architecture patterns and decisions flows
Case-based learning
Solve complex system problems modeled after real business scenarios
1-1 Mentoring
Get individual feedback on your decisions, diagrams and communication
Proven playbooks
Take home templates for ADRs, RFCs, Post Mortems and diagrams
Engaging Assignments
You will enjoy practical home tasks that include gathering requirements, making availability calculations, applying design patterns, drawing diagrams, and writing RFCs. Each assignment comes with thorough feedback to ensure you master the concepts
What You’ll Be Able to Do After the Course?
Translate Business Needs into Architecture Decisions
Learn to gather and prioritize requirements
Build Performant, Reliable and Secure Systems
Apply solutions driven by business needs
Design for scale and uncertainty
Apply business-aware approaches to reliability, performance, delivery risk, and time-to-market
Communicate Design like a leader
Craft Architecture Docs, Diagrams and Justifications that get buy-in from CTOs, PMs and CFOs alike
Reason about the resources and cost
Calculate storage, network bandwidth, and compute needs
System Observability
Sleep at night well avoiding unnecessary alerts
Revisit lectures with no limit
Consult yourself later with lecture recordings
Obtain a trusted certificate
Graduates of the course receive Credly digital badge, trusted by 90% of the Fortune 500 and over 3500 global employers.
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Trusted by Engineering Leaders at Companies like Booking.com, Bolt and Flo Health
  • Hey, just wrapped up an amazing two months in the Business-Oriented System Design course led by 📚 Vladimir Ivanov. Tons of insights and valuable takeaways!

    As a perfect complement, I also read Design It!— highly recommended.
    Andrei Panov
    Senior engineering manager at Booking.com
  • Excited to share that I’ve earned my badge from the Business Oriented System Design course by 📚 Vladimir Ivanov!
    This course goes beyond just tech – it taught me how to align system design with business goals, communicate trade-offs effectively, and think like a tech leader.
    If you're a software engineer looking to level up your system design skills with a real-world, business-first mindset, I highly recommend joining the next cohort.
    Anton Nosov
    Senior Backend Engineer at TraceAir Technologies
  • I just challenged myself and I’m happy to share that I’ve completed a 10-week-long Business Oriented System Design Course which was about how to gather requirements, address performance, security, reliability and observability targets and document software architecture.
    Ave Tarend
    Senior software engineer at Bolt
  • This course has been really useful in my daily work. It covers both the technical and business sides of system design. One of the most useful things I learned was how to write clear ADRs, RFCs, and design docs.
    Yeshwant Kumar
    Software Engineer at Bolt
  • System Design is crucial for creating scalable, reliable, and maintainable software systems. The Business Oriented System Design course has equipped me with essential skills to make business-first architecture decisions, effectively identify and prioritize requirements, address performance and scalability issues, and document software systems using C4 and UML notations.

    I extend my gratitude to our esteemed lecturer, 📚 Vladimir Ivanov, for his invaluable knowledge and insights throughout the course.

    I look forward to applying these skills to drive innovation and excellence in my future projects.
    Andrei Kulik
    Senior Software Engineer at Convera
Pricing
Cost:
€399 (Pay via PayPal or Wire transfer)
Group Discount:
20% off for groups of 3 engineers from the same company
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Vladimir Ivanov
Co-Founder & CTO
With 15+ years of experience as a Senior Engineering Manager and Solution Architect across Bolt, EPAM and Tinkoff, Vladimir has mentored 100+ engineers and led multi-million dollars impact system designs. His focus is aligning tech with business goals.
Vladimir Ivanov
Co-Founder & CTO
With 15+ years of experience as a Senior Engineering Manager and Solution Architect across Bolt, EPAM and Tinkoff, Vladimir has mentored 100+ engineers and led multi-million dollars impact system designs. His focus is aligning tech with business goals.
How to enroll
Cohort #6 is opened for registration now. The group starts at the end of July 2025. Enroll by submitting a form below, or drop me a telegram DMs.
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