From over 1500 applicants, I was one of ~30 students selected to partake in a high paced and very intensive Full Stack .NET Developer program. The training emphasizes applied learning through Mob Programming, Agile work methods and consists of 500 coding hours with weekly demos and coding tests that are necessary to pass in order to graduate. Technical skills include C#, .NET, Entity Framework, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Typescript, Databases incl. MongoDB and SQLServer, UX/UI, and general development tools such as Git, REST, Docker, Kubernetes, Redux, GraphQL, Azure, TDD, and CI/CD. After graduating the bootcamp I was hired by salt as a consultant.