Sylvester Baybuz

CEO of Technical Coaching Institute

Becoming a Technical Coach: 4‑week Certification Program for Engineers

2hr/week

With Instructor

In Zoom

Learn how to coach others. Build leadership skills. Get certified. Elevate your career

Choose Your Cohort

It’s a hands‑on program. You’ll work with other engineers, practicing coaching techniques together. Our experienced coaches will guide and support you throughout the program

Get Promoted

Managers promote engineers who help others grow. This program helps you show that you deserve a promotion

Get Hired

Recruiters look for a combination of hard and soft skills. This program helps you improve both

Don't Get Replaced

Technology changes. Coaching skills don’t. This program helps you become the engineer every team wants to keep

About Technical Coaching

What is a Technical Coach?
A technical coach is an experienced engineer who helps teams improve how they build software. Technical coaches are player-coaches who code, design, and test with their teammates, guiding them toward better habits through real work, not lectures. Like coaches in sports, they help their teams get better every day
What does a coach focus on?
A coach can help with any software engineering practices they’re familiar with. Most coaches focus on general practices such as refactoring, design patterns, domain-driven design, TDD/BDD, and CI/CD, as well as specific frameworks and technologies like Spring, React, Selenium, AWS, and K8s
Is it a different career?
Becoming a technical coach isn’t a separate career path. It’s a deeper way to practice engineering. You stay hands-on with the code while helping others grow. Coaching helps you have a bigger impact by improving how the team writes, designs, and delivers software
Why are coaching skills required these days?
Coaching skills are in demand because they multiply impact. A good coach doesn’t just fix bugs or ship features. They help everyone around them get better, which makes teams stronger and companies more effective
Do you have to be an expert to be a coach?
You don’t have to be an expert to be a coach. In sports, many great coaches have never been champions themselves, but they learned how to help others perform at their best. The same is true in engineering
Why should you become a technical coach?
Becoming a technical coach helps you grow as both an engineer and a leader. You learn how to make a bigger impact by improving how your team works, not just what it builds. It gives you confidence, influence, and career opportunities while keeping you close to the code and involved in real engineering work

About This Course

Who Should Take This Course

Senior Engineers

Experienced engineers who want more influence, recognition, and impact

Team/Tech Leads

Leads balancing delivery, mentorship, and hands-on technical work

Engineering Managers

Managers building stronger teams and a lasting engineering culture

Learning Outcomes

The role of a Technical Coach

You’ll be able to clearly define what a Technical Coach is, how it differs from a senior developer or tech lead, and why teams need coaches. You’ll know how to position yourself as someone who improves how the team works, not just who ships tickets

The Learning Hour approach

You’ll learn how to design and run focused Learning Hours within your team. These are short, structured sessions where engineers build specific skills together through deliberate practice

The Pairing approach

You’ll learn how to pair in a way that improves both the code and the people writing it. You’ll practice how to guide without taking over and how to build trust so people actually want to pair with you

The Ensemble (Mobbing) approach

You’ll learn how to facilitate ensemble (mob) working sessions where the whole team solves one problem together in real time. You’ll know when to use this approach, how to keep it safe and productive, and how to use it to spread good practices quickly

Code Katas

You’ll be able to design and run code katas. These are small, repeatable practice exercises that help your team improve engineering skills like unit testing, refactoring, design patterns, domain-driven design, microservice architecture, and other core engineering practices

Career Outcomes

Certification

You will receive a certificate that proves to your current or future employer that you have mastered coaching skills. It will help you get promoted or find a new job

Board of Technical Coaches

You may choose to be listed on our Board of Certified Technical Coaches. You can add a link to your résumé or LinkedIn profile so others can see your credentials

Job Opportunities

You may choose to receive job opportunities through us. There are many companies looking for candidates with coaching skills. We will help them find you

Program Outline

Week 1

Role of a Technical Coach

Explore what technical coaching is and how it fits into everyday engineering work

Week 2

1:1 Approaches to Coaching

Practice one-on-one coaching through structured pairing and code reviews

Week 3

Group Approaches to Coaching

Practice leading group coaching through Learning Hours and Ensemble Programming (Mobbing)

Week 4

Career Guidance

Apply everything you’ve learned to your career path. Build a plan to demonstrate coaching impact and grow your technical influence

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