One of your real projects, turned into a whiteboard-defense dossier — so you can explain why every decision is there: in interviews, in reviews, at 2 a.m. during an incident.
You shipped it. Maybe you and an AI shipped it. Then someone asks "why does this work — and why this way?" — and the answer isn't there.
In an interview. In a design review. At 2 a.m. during an incident. In an AI-flooded market, the engineers who stand out aren't the ones who wrote the most code — they're the ones who can defend it.
Every load-bearing decision, in order — each motivated by the problem the last one created. Not the code; the reasoning that produced it.
The sharpest questions a staff engineer or interviewer would ask about your design — written out, in advance.
A defensible answer to each — in your words, ready to say out loud. No hand-waving.
We fire the questions at you, on a call, until you can hold the line under pressure.
Pay the $29 deposit and pick a project you can speak to — your own or open-source code, or any work at the level you'd discuss it in an interview. Nothing proprietary leaves your machine.
Live, like a sharp interviewer: the real decisions, the trade-offs, the places it quietly disagrees with itself. Screen-share only if you want to, showing only what you're comfortable with.
Dossier in ~3–4 days, live defense that week. You walk in able to explain any part of it, cold.
Mid-to-senior engineers heading into interviews, performance reviews, or promo packets — especially anyone shipping fast with AI who wants to own the result, not just submit it.
Done by hand, not a generator. I work on JVM internals and think about exactly this problem for a living — why code ends up the way it is. Real analysis of your real code.
If the dossier doesn't make you more able to defend your work, you don't pay. No fluff, no "AI-proof your career" nonsense.
No — and please don't. We work from what you can already discuss: your own or open-source projects, or your work at interview-level abstraction (architecture, decisions, trade-offs). Nothing proprietary leaves your machine; screen-share is optional and shows only what you choose. It mirrors a real interview — you defend your work verbally, you never hand over the repo.
That's exactly the point. We reconstruct the why behind code you (and your tools) shipped, so you can stand behind it — decision by decision.
The dossier lands in about 3–4 days; the 30-minute live mock-defense is scheduled that same week.
By hand — not an AI generator — by the person who'll run your mock-defense. Questions first? hello@standfast.dev.
Do well, and — only with your explicit permission — I can introduce you to hiring teams who specifically want engineers who can defend their work. No guarantees; it's an opt-in upside, not the point. The point is you walking in able to hold the line, wherever you walk in.