CodeSequence Mentorship Programme

A structured mentoring programme for practising engineers who want to grow their technical impact, share knowledge, and advance responsible industry practices together. Each edition brings together a small cohort of mentors and mentees in several technical streams and runs as a focused sprint with clear goals, tasks, and outcomes.

Mentor applications are open

Applications for mentors are reviewed on a rolling basis for the upcoming editions.

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Mentee applications are closed

Mentee applications for the current edition are now closed. You can join the waiting list for future editions.

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Selection Criteria

Mentors

We invite mentors who

  • currently work in a senior, staff, principal, or lead engineering role, or as a technical founder
  • have at least five years of hands on experience in one of the programme streams
  • can share concrete production cases, including failures and lessons learned
  • are interested in advancing the industry, for example through better reliability, safer systems, or more sustainable infrastructure
  • are ready to commit time for preparation, calls, and feedback during the full edition

Mentor applications ask for

  • current role and company
  • main field of expertise and tech stack
  • short description of two or three production cases they can share
  • previous mentoring or teaching experience, if any
  • availability by time zone and weeks when they can commit

Mentors are selected by the CodeSequence team based on practical experience, communication skills, and fit with the topics of the upcoming edition.

Mentees

The programme is designed for practising engineers, not for complete beginners. Mentees should

  • work in a technical role such as backend engineer, data engineer, DevOps, SRE, ML engineer, frontend or mobile engineer
  • have at least two to three years of experience in their field
  • be responsible for part of a real system, service, or data pipeline
  • have a concrete problem or growth area they want to work on during the edition
  • be willing to share context from their work within NDA safe limits

The application form includes

  • current role, company, and tech stack
  • stream they are applying for and why
  • a short description of one project or system they want to improve
  • expectations from mentorship and the time they can realistically dedicate each week

Mentees are selected to create balanced groups where members can learn from each other and where the mentor’s expertise matches the problems the group is solving.

Timeline of the upcoming edition

Call for mentors

1 to 30 September

Mentor selection and stream planning

1 to 15 October

Applications for mentees

16 October to 10 November

Final matching and onboarding

11 to 30 November

Mentorship programme

1 December to 1 March

Responsible Tech Mentors

Sofia Alvarez Read bio

Sofia Alvarez

Independent Digital Designer and Consultant

Barcelona, Spain
Ahmed Mansour Read bio

Ahmed Mansour

Head of Data at Careem

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Yuki Tanaka Read bio

Yuki Tanaka

UX Research Lead at Sony Interactive Entertainment

Tokyo, Japan
Priya Nair Read bio

Priya Nair

Senior Product Manager at Booking.com

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Daniel Rosenberg Read bio

Daniel Rosenberg

Engineering Manager at Zalando

Berlin, Germany
Fatima El Haddad Read bio

Fatima El Haddad

Senior AI Product Manager at Doctolib

Paris, France

Voices of the Code Sequence Community

Our speakers are senior engineers and technical leaders who design, run, and improve real products. They share production stories, failure reports, and design decisions that you rarely see in public talks.

Each session is grounded in code, metrics, and consequences for users and businesses. Together we explore how certain patterns, tools, and trade offs reshape engineering culture and move the wider industry toward safer, more thoughtful, and more sustainable technology.

Recent mentorship events

2025 Cohort

  • Sofia Alvarez
  • Ahmed Mansour
  • Yuki Tanaka
  • Daniel Rosenberg
  • Priya Nair
  • Fatima El Haddad

2024 Cohort

  • Aisha Rahman
  • Isabella Romano
  • Laura Bianchi
  • Marco De Santis
  • Michael O’Connell
  • Noor Al Sabah
  • Tomasz Kowalczyk
  • Oliver Thompson
  • Zainab Bello
  • Mariam Abashidze
  • Antoine Lefevre
  • Ekaterina Smirnova
  • Rahul Verma
  • Sofia Dimitrova

2023 Cohort

  • Ananya Gupta
  • Benjamin Clarke
  • Diego Ramirez
  • Elina Saarinen
  • Hannah Williams
  • Katarina Novak
  • Kirill Volkov
  • Leila Haddadi
  • Lucas Pereira
  • Marcus Bennett
  • Mei Lin Chen
  • Olha Koval
  • Rasmus Nielsen
  • Samuel Okoye