LaunchTechUp bridges the gap between academic knowledge and real-world software engineering — with live projects, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and enterprise teamwork.
From DevOps pipelines to cloud deployment, Agile ceremonies to production monitoring — we simulate it all.
Built by Bennybriel Technologies to produce disciplined, globally competitive software engineers through real-world enterprise experience.
Despite the availability of technology job opportunities across Nigeria — including hundreds of open roles at companies like Moniepoint — many talented developers are not prepared to step into professional engineering environments.
The gap isn't a lack of intelligence or ambition. It's a lack of exposure: exposure to real deployment workflows, collaborative version control, observability tooling, Agile processes, and the discipline required in production software teams.
"Despite approximately 500 open positions, many Nigerian developers are not adequately prepared to fit into real industry environments." — Tosin Eniolorunda, CEO of Moniepoint, The Platform 2026 Conference
LaunchTechUp was created to change that — not by teaching programming syntax, but by immersing developers in a full enterprise software company simulation from day one.
Every participant joins a real team, works on real projects, manages real CI/CD pipelines, and ships to real production environments. By the end, they don't just know the tools — they've lived with them for 24 weeks.
To create a real-world enterprise software engineering ecosystem where aspiring developers gain practical industry experience by working collaboratively in teams, building enterprise applications, utilising modern development tools, and following professional software engineering processes and standards.
A structured, practical journey from onboarding to capstone — simulating the full lifecycle of enterprise software development.
Every developer sets up their full environment and learns team conventions before writing production code. Configure IDEs, run the full docker-compose stack locally, join all Slack channels, access Jira boards, and complete a Hello World PR that goes through full review and merge.
Developers join a live Agile team running two-week sprints. Attend sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives. Own tickets end-to-end — from estimation to demo to merge — with every PR gated by CI and code review approval.
Build, maintain, and debug the full deployment pipeline from commit to production. Write Jenkinsfiles from scratch, configure SonarQube quality gates (80%+ coverage), and implement Snyk scanning that blocks merges on critical vulnerabilities. Practice rollback in under 5 minutes.
Containerise applications and deploy to real Kubernetes clusters. Write production-grade multi-stage Dockerfiles, all K8s manifests from scratch, package services with Helm, and practice blue-green and canary release strategies. Configure readiness and liveness probes for every service.
Instrument apps with Prometheus using the RED method, build Grafana dashboards with 5+ health panels, centralise logs via ELK with structured JSON and correlation IDs. Run a simulated production incident — detect, triage, fix, deploy, and write a full postmortem.
Build a complete enterprise-grade application from scratch owning the full SDLC. React frontend, Node.js/Python API, PostgreSQL database, full CI/CD from day one, Kubernetes with Helm, SonarQube gates, Snyk scanning, and Prometheus+Grafana+ELK in production from the very first deployment. Weekly stakeholder demos and final architecture walkthrough.
Every developer on the platform masters the complete enterprise software engineering toolchain.
LaunchTechUp simulates a complete engineering company. Here are the roles participants fill — each with full, professional-grade responsibilities.
Every team member. Every day. No exceptions.
LaunchTechUp is looking for disciplined, ambitious developers who want to work at the highest level. Here's what we need from you — and what you'll need to bring.
This is the non-negotiable process every feature follows — from ticket creation to production deployment.
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work on the branch — never directly on main.The best industry engineers will hold sessions with developers on board. This is not a passive learning experience.
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