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Mentorship
A free 30-minute call for students and early-career engineers. Bring the thing you are stuck on — a résumé, a portfolio, a backend problem, or a decision about what to learn next.
What we can cover
Résumé and portfolio review
One pass over the projects, the bullets, and what a recruiter will actually read first.
Backend and system design questions
Schemas, queues, retries, and the trade-offs that only show up after the first deploy.
Getting started in open source
Finding a project, reading the codebase, and sending a first change that lands.
College projects to production work
How to turn coursework into something you can defend in an interview.
Career questions
Internships, first roles, and the non-metro path — what worked, what did not.
How it works
Book a slot
Pick a time on Topmate. The Career Talks call is free and runs for 30 minutes.
Send context
When you book, write a paragraph about what you want to solve. It makes the call useful instead of polite.
Meet on video
We talk for the booked half hour. No pitch, no deck, and no invoice afterwards.
Who it is for
Students, final-year projects, early-career engineers, and people switching into software. The call is for questions, not recruiting. If you are hiring, email me and use the résumé instead.
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. The Career Talks call on Topmate is listed at zero cost. I keep a few slots open because people did the same for me when I was starting.
What should I bring?
One specific thing: a link to your portfolio, a résumé, a design doc, or a question you can state in two sentences. Vague calls tend to stay vague.
Can we review code?
Yes, if it is public. Send the repository when you book and point me at the part you are unsure about — the boundary, the retry path, or the test that keeps failing.
What if the time stops working?
Move or cancel the slot on the booking page so someone else can take it. If that does not work, email me and we will find another time.
Book the call.
Thirty minutes, free, on Topmate. No fee, no pitch, no course to buy. If the times do not fit, email me and we will find one.