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Build Like a Senior Engineer — One Card at a Time

You know how to code. Now learn how to design.

In Building Systems Like a Senior Engineer, you’ll build a fully extensible card game engine — and along the way, you’ll learn the habits, tradeoffs, and architectural thinking that set senior developers apart.

This isn’t just another coding book. It’s a hands-on, opinionated walkthrough of:

Clean, test-first design
Domain modeling and encapsulation
Real-world backend structure (without the boilerplate)
Game engines that teach system design

Whether you’re an early-career dev looking to level up, or a mid-level engineer hungry to understand how senior engineers think, this book will teach you how to build smarter — and teach through your code.

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