Learning pathway · P-01

Full-Stack Developer — Java

Build complete production-ready web applications using React and Java.

Become a Java full-stack developer in ten months — and deploy something real

Length: 9–11 months
Courses: 9
SkillLabs: 8
Mode: Offline / Hybrid

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Your portfolio when you finish

Design, build, secure, test, deploy and troubleshoot one complete Java full-stack product in production.

A secured REST API with a real schema
Spring Boot service with validation, transactions, migrations and role-based access, backed by PostgreSQL.
A React interface against your own API
Typed components, forms, routing and authentication — talking to the backend you built, not a mock.
A containerised, monitored deployment
The whole product in Docker, shipped by a pipeline, with logs and metrics you can read when something breaks.
A capstone running on a live URL
One product, front to back, that you can send to an interviewer and talk through line by line.

The route

5 groups, in this order

Each group is a capability rather than a checkpoint — you reach the end of one when you can do the thing it names.

Academy course
SkillLab workshop
in this order

01 · Java Developer
Core Java Git & Maven SQL & Database Design
Write clean, maintainable Java, work in Git the way a team does, and design a schema you can query with confidence.
02 · Backend API Developer
Spring CoreSpring BootREST APIsSpring Data JPASpring Security
Build a validated, secured REST API against a real database, on your own, with transactions and error handling that hold up.
03 · Production & Distribution
MicroservicesSpring CloudRedis & CachingLogging & MonitoringDocker
Split a system into services, cache what is hot, ship it in a container, and see what it is doing once it runs.
04 · Frontend Developer
AngularorReact
Build the interface against your own API — one framework, chosen at the start and taken to production depth.
05 · Cloud & Deployment
CloudCI/CDPerformance & Production
Take the product from your machine to a running URL, and keep it running when other people use it.

Learning outcomes

What you will be able to do

01Build and deploy a complete production-grade web application end to end
02Write a secured Spring Boot REST API with proper error handling, migrations and tests
03Build a modern React and Next.js frontend against your own API
04Integrate third-party services and handle webhooks idempotently
05Ship through a CI/CD pipeline and debug the running system
06Handle DSA, system design and behavioural interview rounds

What you finish with

A deployed full-stack product with authentication, payments, third-party integrations, CI/CD and production monitoring — the complete Project Basecamp build, running on a real URL you can send to an interviewer.

What the cohort includes

Cohort-paced structure with milestones, not a self-paced video library
Mentorship from a practitioner with 20+ years of hands-on industry experience
Code review on your own work, every sprint
Graded capstone with individual feedback
Mock interviews and placement support
Verified Deesha certification

Who teaches this

Learn with experienced practitioners

All trainers and mentors

Courses on this pathway are taught by these practitioners. Each batch names its own trainer before you enrol.

Vishal Shah

Founder & Principal Trainer

20+ years' experience

Two decades building and teaching commerce, banking and cloud platforms — still writing code

Vishal has spent more than twenty years across engineering and technical enablement, working on commerce, banking and cloud platforms and teaching the architects and developers who build on them. He is currently a technical trainer and functional architect at commercetools. He teaches the production concerns most courses skip, because he has spent two decades being paged about them.

Java & Spring Boot microservices
TypeScript, React, Angular & Next.js
Composable commerce (commercetools)
Digital banking (Backbase)
Event-driven & cloud-native architecture
AWS, Google Cloud & Azure
CI/CD — Jenkins & GitHub Actions
SDET — Playwright, Selenium, RestAssured, contract testing
AI agents, MCP & LLM application engineering
Technical curriculum architecture

Where that experience comes from

commercetools — technical trainer & functional architect
Backbase — principal bootcamp trainer (contract)
Toptal — technical training programme manager (contract)
Capgemini — senior technical trainer
Training delivered for Cognizant, IBM, Saudi Aramco and Persistent Systems

Certifications

commercetools Certified Functional Architect
Oracle Certified Java Programmer, SE7
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (2020–2023)
AWS Certified Developer (2020–2023)
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Professional (2020–2023)
Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (2020–2023)
Google Professional Cloud Architect (2020–2023)

Full profile

Vishal began teaching in Sangli. Between 2009 and 2013 he was a technical trainer at Deesha Computer Education, after four years running the IT department at Gulabrao Patil Institute of Information Technology in Miraj. Deesha Tech Academy is that work picked up again, with eighteen more years of industry behind it.

In between he built the enablement side of several platform businesses. He is a technical trainer and functional architect at commercetools, where he architected the 2026 commercetools course family across the Functional Architect and Developer tracks — six courses covering B2C, B2B and Agentic Commerce, built as a modular, decision-driven curriculum with reusable session plans, hands-on labs and runnable starter code. He built hexagonal Backend-for-Frontend starter projects in Java/Spring Boot and TypeScript/NestJS, and a capability-gated storefront where each endpoint a learner implements unlocks a real storefront feature — a lab that validates itself.

Before that he was principal bootcamp trainer at Backbase, technical training programme manager at Toptal, and a senior technical trainer at Capgemini. As a freelance consultant he delivered training for Cognizant, IBM, Saudi Aramco and Persistent Systems.

More recently he has worked on AI-native enablement: curricula and hands-on environments built on Claude Code, the Model Context Protocol and agentic development workflows, teaching developers to build with AI tooling accountably rather than by copy-paste. The two-tier task loop he designed there — AI accelerates the plumbing, the participant owns the design decisions and the hardening — is the same principle behind how Deesha courses are built.

Satish Mahajan

Expert Trainer — Java, Testing & Automation

17+ years' experience

Seventeen years training enterprise engineering teams in Java, Python and test automation

Satish is a technical learning and development consultant with more than seventeen years designing and delivering technical training for enterprise engineering teams, across Java and Python full-stack, cloud, DevOps and test automation. He has owned engagements end to end — needs assessment, curriculum design, capstone build and competency frameworks — for audiences from graduate hires to experienced associates.

Core & advanced Java, Spring Boot
Test automation — Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber
JUnit 5, TestNG, Mockito, Rest Assured, Karate
Python for testing — PyTest, Requests
Cloud & DevOps — AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CI/CD
Curriculum architecture & competency frameworks
GenAI and LLM tooling for engineering teams

Where that experience comes from

Maveric Systems — competency development and technical training
Capgemini — technical training management and learning frameworks
Zensar Technologies — core and advanced Java training delivery
Seed InfoTech — senior Java subject-matter expert
Training delivered for HSBC, Barclays, Wells Fargo, RBS, ABN AMRO and Societe Generale account teams

Certifications

Pega Certified System Architect (PCSA)

Full profile

Satish has spent his career on the training side of enterprise engineering, most recently as Senior Training Manager for competency development at Maveric Systems, and before that as a technical training manager at Capgemini and Zensar Technologies.

He has delivered Java full-stack and test-automation programmes for global graduate intakes across Singapore, Malaysia, the UK and the US, and cross-skilling and interview-readiness training for associates on banking accounts including HSBC, Barclays, Wells Fargo, RBS, ABN AMRO and Societe Generale. He has designed continuous learning frameworks and competency pathways, mentored other trainers on facilitation quality, and built capstone and enterprise-simulation projects used across delivery batches.

More recently he has been upskilling digital, DevOps and test-automation teams on generative AI and LLM tooling — prompt engineering, RAG, tool calling, MCP servers, LangChain and LangGraph, and Spring AI.

At Deesha he leads testing and automation teaching, and shares the Java and Python programmes.

Designed for

Final-year engineering, BCA, BSc-CS and MCA students
Freshers targeting service companies, GCCs and product firms
Career switchers with a technical aptitude and time to commit

Certifications this prepares for

Oracle Java SE 21 Developer (1Z0-830)
Spring Certified Professional
AWS Certified Developer — Associate

Preparation only. Examination fees and registration are arranged with the certifying body, not with Deesha.

About this pathway

Most institutes will sell you a Java full-stack "bundle" — nine course names on an invoice and a certificate at the end. This is a guided program to a job, which is a different product.

You finish with a deployed application that has real authentication, real payments, real integrations, a CI/CD pipeline and production monitoring — because the gap employers complain about most is not syntax, it's that graduates have never operated software that other people use. That is the whole design of this pathway: it ends where most courses stop.

Why this one goes further

Almost every full-stack program in India ends at CRUD — a form that writes to a database. This one continues into API and integration engineering and DevOps and deployment, which is precisely the boundary between a candidate who needs six months of hand-holding and one who is useful in week three. Interviewers can tell the difference immediately, and they ask about it.

The Placement Accelerator

The three add-on courses — DSA, System Design, and Communication — are strongly recommended alongside the pathway rather than after it. Technical skill gets you the interview; those three convert it. Most students who don't get placed fail on DSA rounds or on explaining their own project clearly, not on their ability to build.

Who this is for

You need to be able to write basic code in some language and commit roughly 10–12 hours a week for nine to eleven months. No Java experience required — DTA-06 starts from the language itself.

This is a serious time commitment and it's worth being honest about that: it's the largest pathway in the catalogue. If you have three months rather than ten, look at the Data Analyst pathway instead, which is genuinely shorter rather than a compressed version of this one.

Cohorts and fees

Cohorts start periodically and seat count is capped so that every capstone gets individually reviewed. Fees, instalment options and the next start date are on this page — or message us on WhatsApp and we'll walk you through whether this pathway actually fits your situation.

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