For the past 5 years I've spent hundreds of hours mentoring and teaching developers how to break into the tech industry, and build a career at a world class level.

But the tech industry is completely different than it was a few years ago. Two major changes are happening:

• Massive layoffs and a correction in the job market is making it extremely difficult to land your first job, or any job at all.
• AI is changing how we work, what we do, and this is having a huge impact in the entire industry.

But one thing will remain stable despite the changes:

After working personally with dozens of engineers, I've discovered a proven, repeatable strategy that takes you out of the competition and makes you stand out.

Here's a mentee of mine that started writing code in 2022:

I wrote my first line of code in January 2022. With a non technical background, I followed every advice of mentorship from Frantz.

12 months later, I started contributing to open-source projects. 6 months after that, I applied to only 4 jobs, and landed my first role as a Full-Stack Software Engineer at Mono.

Betty Alagwu

Software Engineer at Mono

In order to succeed in the tech industry today, you can't just take courses. You need a proven, practical strategy to build a successful career.

This book contains practical strategies I have used, and my mentees and students have used to land jobs, get promotions, and grow their careers as software engineers.

96% of courses teach you hard skills. They immediately start with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and then go on to teach a framework. That's all good, but companies are not just looking for skills. Companies are looking for problem solvers that can ship value and solutions to customers.

To become a problem solving world class software engineer, you need a different kind of training. You need strategy.

It's a lot more than a book - It's everything you need to build a successful career as a software engineer in 2025.

This is not just another book. I put a lot of time into working on this, because my goal is to set you up for complete success in your career. I quickly realised there's a lot of valuable pieces to fit into the puzzle to make you create your own success.

So I put together the following, a complete solution, giving you everything you need to become a world class software engineer:

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Book - The Strategic Software Engineer

350 pages of practical career strategies. Each chapter is heavily packed with illustrations, to keep you engaged and to communicate these strategies in a clear and simple way.

I made every sentence of the book engaging, practical and impactful. That way, you don't waste time reading repetitive paragraphs, but every paragraph goes straight to the point