About

A small studio obsessed with boring backends

Think Netcore Institute began as late-night workshops in Ipoh before expanding to hybrid cohorts across Malaysia. We are not a mega-bootcamp; we optimise for mentor attention per participant and receipts you can show your lead engineer.

Trusted by teams at logistics hubs, agency pods, and internal platform groups — satisfaction tracked through post-cohort surveys (mixed scales, not a single default score).

Principles

Traceable teaching

Every exercise ends with artefacts you can paste into a real ticket.

Honest scope

We say no to shiny topics that dilute deploy readiness.

Peer-readable work

Rubrics reward documentation and rollback notes, not clever one-liners.

Regional context

Examples reference MY business hours, public holidays, and PDPA-aware habits.

Mentor bench

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Aisha Rahman

Backend Instructor

Teaches Node internals with an emphasis on traces you can show in incident reviews.

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Vikram Nair

API Reviewer

Former agency lead who still annotates OpenAPI diffs for cohort participants.

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Mei Ling Wong

Database Mentor

PostgreSQL-focused, prefers EXPLAIN plans to slides.

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Darren Yip

DevOps Support

Builds CI templates that survive interns and on-call rotations.

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Sarah Ibrahim

Program Coordinator

Keeps cohort calendars honest and mentor feedback timely.

Timeline

  1. 2019 — First Ipoh evening cohort focused purely on backend services.
  2. 2022 — Added mentor-async tracks for agency teams across Peninsular Malaysia.
  3. 2025 — Introduced API Delivery Desk materials for internal platform squads.
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