Career resources for developers

A six-stage path into paid remote AI data work, with a version for data annotation and one for AI trainers. It covers why models need people, the honest picture of pay, project gaps and scams, the guideline and quality skills platforms test, getting accepted, getting paid and keeping records, and moving up into reviewer, evals, data or ML roles. It suits students and graduates who want flexible remote income and read instructions carefully.

• Career
• AI
• Remote work
• Job search

An eight-stage path to earning from AI video or AI images: what clients actually buy, the creative basics AI does not replace, the tool stack, prompting for consistent results, rights and platform labels, portfolio and offers, finding clients and delivering like a professional. It suits students and early-career creatives who want a service they can sell from a laptop. By the end you can make a consistent, on-brand set of assets, check it is allowed and labelled, and deliver it in the right formats.

• Career
• AI
• Freelancing

A seven-stage path for relocating for a tech job in the Gulf, Germany and the EU, the UK and Ireland, or East Asia: deciding if and where, work visas from official pages, degree attestation, a profile recruiters abroad shortlist, finding employers that sponsor, comparing offers and your first 90 days. It suits students, graduates and engineers who want a real plan instead of group-chat advice. Every stage is open on the public page, and adding it costs no credits.

• Career
• Job search
• Personal branding
• Remote work

A nine-stage path for securing LLM apps and AI agents, or testing them as a red-teamer, with one path for each: security foundations, how LLM apps break, the OWASP LLM and agentic lists and MITRE ATLAS, layered defences against prompt injection, agent, tool and MCP security, the data and model supply chain, red-teaming and security evals, monitoring and incidents, and a route into the work. It suits developers and security learners who can already build. By the end you have a practice app defended or assessed end to end.

• AI
• Security
• Testing
• Career

An eight-stage path into AI governance, with a technical edition and a policy and compliance edition: the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and regional AI policies, an AI inventory with risk tiers and owners, data foundations and data protection, model assurance, human oversight, compliance and audit, and a route into the field. It suits engineers and data people as well as law, risk, audit and business graduates. By the end you can produce the documents governance depends on, with dated sources.

• AI
• Career

A nine-stage path from how cloud billing works through tagging, allocation and unit costs, commitments and spot, rightsizing and waste, forecasts and anomaly alerts, AI and GPU spend, the FinOps Framework and FOCUS, to working with finance, on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. It suits cloud and DevOps engineers, analysts and students who want to explain and reduce a cloud bill. By the end you can read a bill line by line, allocate it to teams, buy commitments safely, cut waste and run a monthly cost review.

• Cloud
• DevOps
• Career

Jeff Su, a full time product marketer, makes short, well structured videos on workplace productivity, Google Workspace, Notion, LinkedIn and practical use of AI tools. Each video is a tight list of tips you can apply the same day. It suits students and early career professionals, including developers, who want to work faster and present themselves better at work.

• Career
• AI
• Personal branding

The video home of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, where Gergely Orosz holds long conversations with engineers, founders and engineering leaders about how software actually gets built, how careers grow and how AI is changing the work. Episodes are slow, detailed and practical. It suits working developers from a couple of years in up to engineering managers who want an honest view of the industry rather than hype.

• Career
• Leadership
• AI

A seven-stage plan for looking for a software job on purpose instead of mass applying: choose a target role, level and tiered company list, build a one-page resume and proof of work, apply through referrals and short messages with a tracked weekly rhythm, get ready for the technical and behavioural rounds, and compare and negotiate offers. It suits final-year students, graduates hearing nothing back and experienced engineers changing company. At the end you have a search you can measure and a researched number when the offer arrives.

• Career
• Job search
• Personal branding

A revision reference for personal branding as an engineer, in 6 chapters and 46 concepts: niche and positioning statement, a profile that works as a landing page, hooks and posts people read, a posting rhythm with a swipe file, networking through comments and weak ties, and the metrics worth tracking instead of vanity numbers. It follows the Sefism LinkedIn and personal branding roadmap stage for stage. Use it to check a draft post or profile section before you publish.

• Career
• Personal branding

A free, open curriculum for becoming a cloud engineer, founded by Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza with Rishab Kumar. It runs from Linux, networking and Python through cloud platform fundamentals, DevOps and security, with a hands-on project in each phase and a choice of AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

• Career
• Cloud
• DevOps

A full-cost scholarship for citizens of any country outside the UK to take a full-time master's or a PhD at the University of Cambridge. It covers tuition, a maintenance allowance, airfare and visa costs, with around 70 awards a year. You apply through Cambridge's graduate application, and selection rests on academic excellence, course fit, commitment to others and leadership.

• Career
• CS fundamentals

The largest community built around software testing: a free forum called The Club, articles, local meetups, conferences and a job board, plus paid on-demand courses and certificates. A free Basic account is enough to ask questions, read discussions and find events, and it is where many testers learn how the craft works in real teams.

• Career
• Testing

The free Slack workspace of the Write the Docs community, where documentation people ask questions, share work and post jobs. Channels include career advice and a jobs-only channel. A short signup form keeps spam out.

• Career
• Remote work
• Job search

The official online system of the China Scholarship Council for Chinese Government Scholarships, used to apply through Chinese universities or bilateral programmes via embassies. Read the current year's official notice from the embassy or university before applying.

• Career
• Higher studies

Korea's official study portal and the home of the Global Korea Scholarship for graduate students, with embassy and university tracks and a year of Korean language study. Each year's guideline sets quotas, age limits and documents, so read the current one in full.

• Career
• Higher studies

The official Japanese government portal for international students, covering universities, English-taught programmes, admission routes, MEXT and other scholarships, visas, living costs and working. It links to the current MEXT guidelines.

• Career

Australian government scholarships for people from participating developing countries, mainly in the Indo-Pacific, covering tuition, travel and living costs. Awardees must leave Australia for at least two years afterwards, so they suit people planning to build careers at home.

• Career
• Higher studies

UK government funded masters and PhD scholarships for citizens of eligible low and middle income Commonwealth countries. Masters Scholarships go through national nominating agencies with their own earlier deadlines; Shared Scholarships go through UK universities.

• Career
• Higher studies

The UK government's global scholarship for one-year masters degrees, covering tuition, a monthly stipend, flights and visa costs. It asks for two years of work experience and a return home for two years; the 2027/28 round closes on 6 October 2026.

• Career
• Higher studies

The US government's flagship scholarship for graduate study in the United States, run in each country by a Fulbright commission or the US embassy. Eligibility, benefits and deadlines differ by country, so the official site's country pages are the only reliable source.

• Career

The official EU list of Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters: programmes run by groups of universities in several countries, with EU-funded scholarships open to students worldwide. Use it to find programmes in your field, then apply to each consortium directly.

• Career
• Higher studies

The official searchable database of DAAD scholarships and selected other funding for study and research in Germany, filterable by your country, level and subject. It includes programmes such as EPOS for graduates from developing countries with work experience.

• Career
• Databases
• Higher studies

A free, full-length book by freeCodeCamp's founder, written for people learning to code on their own, often while working another job. It treats getting hired as three parallel efforts: skills, a network and a reputation, which is exactly the shape a career switch needs.

• Career
• Job search