For career switchers and IT professionals
Everything you need to land your first cloud engineering job
A step-by-step programme that takes you from beginner to a real AWS system you built yourself in just 8 weeks, and a resume and LinkedIn that gets you hired.
- No computer science degree needed
- Built around a full-time job
- Personal support until you’re interview ready
I’m Henry, and I’ll be teaching you. I went from a finance job to a cloud engineer with no previous tech experience. My AWS tutorials have over half a million views.
The skills you master
Does this sound like you?
You’ve studied cloud, maybe even got the cert, but you don’t know what to learn next.
You’ve done course after course on AWS services in isolation, but you still don’t know how they fit together in a real application.
You’ve got the knowledge, but no real experience or proof you can do the job.
You’ve wanted a cloud role for a while, so you can finally leave your current job, but you have no clear path to get there.
I struggled with all of these problems too, until one thing changed all of it.
The one change that took me from a Finance job to AWS Cloud Engineer at one of the biggest banks in the world
I nearly gave up on Cloud...
I spent an entire weekend applying to more than 50 jobs. I didn’t hear anything back.
And I thought I did everything right. I passed the basic certifications. I bought courses and went through all the lectures. I followed along to some tutorials on YouTube and made notes.
So I thought I was making progress but my applications were all getting ignored.
I’d wasted months on things that didn’t matter.
My degree is in Economics and Finance. No computer science, no IT job, nothing on my resume that said I belonged in tech. So when I felt behind, I studied more. I thought this was the best thing to do at the time.
But none of this actually proved I could do the job. When I started looking at interview questions online, I realised that I couldn’t answer any of it!
My courses and certifications taught me the theory. But none of the questions were about that. They were about what I’d built and why I’d built it that way.
So I changed my strategy.
I stopped studying AWS and built one real project instead.
The problem was I didn’t know what to build. I spent months googling project ideas, trying to find a real problem to solve.
It couldn’t be too small. It had to be something a company would actually run. And it needed enough different services in it that I’d learn something and have something to show for it.
I got there in the end, but it took months of research and was exhausting!
I noticed something unexpected happening... The list of things I needed to learn got easier and I felt way less overwhelmed. I’d only start learning a service when the project needed it. And it actually stuck in my brain because I’d used it to build something.
That project got me a job as an AWS Cloud Engineer at one of the biggest banks in the world. My income went up by over 70%.
Then I put what I’d learned on YouTube. Those videos have been watched over half a million times now.
And this is the kind of thing people started saying.
The way you connected each skill to its role in a professional workflow (Terraform for IaC consistency, CI/CD for automation, Kubernetes for deployment, Python for automation, and networking as the foundation) gives the learning path real context, not just another list of “random things". It’s refreshing to hear advice that’s grounded in actual hiring data rather than opinion.
Thanks for demystifying what truly matters and saving people from wasting time on the wrong priorities.
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This is one of the best IT vidoes I've seen. Thank you so much for this, and you were right... I had already been to Udemy searching for a 25 hour course. I've already ordered the book you recommended. Thank you again!
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After speaking with hundreds of my audience members and mentoring people one to one using what I’ve learnt, I’ve noticed the same 3 problems come up over and over.
The hardest part was never learning AWS services. It’s...
- Not knowing what to learn to get a job.
- Not knowing what to build to get a job.
- Not knowing how to present all of this on a resume to get a job.
So I built the solution to this. This is what I wish I had when I first started learning AWS.
I teach you the theory in the order you actually need it. Then you test that knowledge on practical exercises, and by the end you’ve built a project that a company would actually be impressed by.
I review your code at the end, then show you how to put it on your resume and talk about it in an interview.
It’s called The Cloud Portfolio System.
Here’s how it’s different to everything you’ve already tried.
Most AWS courses are built to teach you AWS theory.
This one is built to help you get hired.
Here’s how...
- 01
Know exactly what to learn, week by week
You get an 8-week plan that tells you what to learn and build each week. We start with the AWS fundamentals, then Terraform, then the networking everything else sits on.
Learn exactly what you need to get a job, explained simply.
You stop guessing which tools to learn.
Internet Gateway & Route Tables
- 02
Build the project hiring managers want to see (not another generic YouTube tutorial)
Instead of typing what an instructor types, you get handed a ticket.
You work out the solution yourself, then watch how a senior engineer would’ve done it. If you get stuck, there are hints, a full solution video, and a Discord full of people working through the same thing.
It’s harder than following along, and that’s the point. This is how you actually remember what you learn.
You end up with something a company actually runs.
VPC-03 Challenge Brief ● To doConnect the public subnets to the internet
Acceptance criteria
- An internet gateway is created and attached to your VPC
- A route table sends internet-bound traffic through it
- The route table applies to both public subnets
- Changes are committed and pushed to GitHub
VPC-03 solutionresource "aws_route_table" "public" { vpc_id = aws_vpc.main.id route { cidr_block = "0.0.0.0/0" gateway_id = aws_internet_gateway.main.id } } - 03
Get an expert review of your build (before a recruiter sees it)
When the build is done you submit it and I review your code myself. I tell you what I would change and why.
If it is not there yet, we go again. We keep working together, round after round, until it is interview ready.
The imposter feeling goes and you feel confident applying for jobs.
Open vaultpay-infrastructureThe whole build, as one diff
mainreview-base
+ resource "aws_nat_gateway" "main" {+ allocation_id = aws_eip.nat.id+ subnet_id = aws_subnet.public_a.id+ }Henry left inline comments on your code
- 04
Turn it into a resume built for cloud jobs
The last part takes the project you just built and turns it into the things that actually get read. A resume built around it, a LinkedIn profile that matches, and answers for the question every one of these interviews asks. Then record a mock interview on your own project and get my video feedback.
You confidently start applying for cloud jobs.
You built
VaultPay, end to end
- A resume built around it
- A LinkedIn recruiters find
- Answers you have rehearsed
You finish with the skills, the theory, and the project that helps you get hired.
I scanned the market to see if there were similar options out there. I couldn’t find anything.
From no AWS experience to interview ready.
Most courses hand you a list of AWS services and leave you to work out what matters. Here it’s already in the order you need it.
AWS Foundations
Available nowSet up your account, lock it down with IAM, and get your toolchain ready. Secured and ready to build.
Terraform Foundations
Available nowInfrastructure as code from first principles: variables, outputs, and remote state, the way a real team works.
Cloud Networking Bootcamp
Available nowA multi-AZ, three-tier VPC: public and private subnets, routing, internet and NAT gateways. The backbone of VaultPay.
Database Masterclass
Available nowA private PostgreSQL database in isolated subnets, with security groups and credentials handled the right way.
Application Tier Accelerator
Available nowContainerize the app, push to ECR, and run it behind an Application Load Balancer with a self-healing fleet. VaultPay goes live.
Code review and mock interview
Submit your build and I review your code myself, round after round, until it’s interview ready. Then record a mock interview on your own project, on camera, and get my video feedback on your answers and how you come across.
The Interview Prep Suite
Most courses stop at the build and leave the job hunt to you. This one turns what you built into a resume, a LinkedIn recruiters actually find, and interview answers about your own work.
- Make your GitHub recruiter-ready
- Write your VaultPay project story
- Build your resume around what you built
- Upgrade your LinkedIn
- Nail "tell me about yourself"
- Walk an interviewer through your project
- Drill the technical questions
Included free when released
CI/CD & Observability Essentials
Ship changes through a GitHub Actions pipeline and see what your system is doing with CloudWatch and flow logs.
Serverless & Event-Driven Essentials
Extend VaultPay with event-driven, serverless pieces: Lambda, S3 triggers, and DynamoDB.
Henry
Homebrew Henry
I’m not an engineer with 20 years experience.
What I have done is make the exact jump you’re making. A finance job, no computer science degree, no real tech experience to point at.
For the past year I’ve also been sitting down one to one with people who are exactly where you are now.
So this is the system I needed back then. It’s how you get the experience every job asks for, without waiting for someone to hire you first.
What they said after building it
I can build a multi-AZ, 3-tier setup myself.
“I had my AWS certs but was building in the console and getting nowhere. I knew the theory, but I had nothing built to show hiring managers. Learning Terraform and AWS together finally made it click, and I can build a multi-AZ, 3-tier setup myself.”
Mathew S.
AWS-certified, self-taught
It filled in the gaps nothing else did.
“It was the perfect entry point for me. The fundamentals were in place before the cloud-specific services, and every ticket felt like a real one where you research and work out the solution yourself. I went from following along to building it myself, and I’m far more comfortable with Terraform now.”
Eneyi D.
Tax manager
Six weeks, three nights a week around work.
“Every time I sat down for a session, I knew the time would go into building something rather real, rather than just filling my time with videos, which really helped me stay locked into the course. Took me about 6 weeks, doing 3 nights a week around work.”
Kane L.
Ex-Revolut, sales
Get the complete Cloud Portfolio System
The complete system for landing your first cloud engineering job: what to learn, what to build, how to prove it and how to talk about it.
What’s included
- $997
Lifetime access to every project build
You always know what to learn next, and every step of it puts another piece of a real project on your resume.
- $97
Your 8-week plan and progress tracker
A week-by-week plan and a tracker you tick off as you go, built around a full-time job.
- $780
Personal code reviews until it’s interview ready
You’re never stuck on your own, because you get personal support from a professional cloud engineer.
- $195
A recorded mock interview, with my video feedback
Practise answering real interview questions about your own project, and find out what to sharpen before the real thing.
- $297
The “Recruiter-Magnet” Resume & LinkedIn System
Your resume and LinkedIn stand out from everyone else’s, built around the system you made.
- $197
Interview cheat sheets and model answers
You walk into the interview confident, because you already know what they’ll ask and how you’ll answer it.
- $397
Every future module and project, included
Future modules are added to your course free as they’re released. You buy once, and it keeps growing.
- $497
The Discord community, with access to me
Ask me your questions directly, and work alongside people in the same position as you, all making the same career change.
Total value $3,457
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If this doesn’t work for you, I don’t want your money.
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The no-questions refund
Try it for 7 days. If it’s not for you, email me and I’ll refund you in full.
The “finish it” promise
Finish the build and submit it for your code review. If you’re not happy with it, we’ll keep working together until it’s interview ready.
This isn’t for everyone.
Most courses will take anyone’s money. I’d rather you know before you pay, so here’s who this works for and who it doesn’t.
Build this if…
- You’ve tried studying, certs or not, and you’ve still got nothing real to point to.
- You’d rather work something out yourself than watch someone else type it.
- You work full time and need a structured path, not another 40-hour playlist.
- You want to walk an interviewer through something you actually built and decided.
Skip it if…
- You want to copy-paste along and skip the part where you think.
- You’re after an exam shortcut. This builds the thing a cert can’t prove.
- You’re curious about cloud but you’re not actually trying to change jobs.
Before you start
- You can open a terminal and run a command you’ve been given.
- You’ve pushed something to GitHub once, or you can follow a short guide to do it.
- You don’t need AWS, Terraform or a tech job. The first introductory module covers all of the command-line and networking basics.
FAQs
Still not sure if it’s right for you? Email hello@homebrewhenry.com and I’ll answer you myself.
Am I technical enough? Do I need AWS or a tech background?
You don’t need AWS, Terraform or a tech job. I came from finance, and one of my students was a tax manager. You need just enough to get going: you can open a terminal and run a command you’re given, and you’ve pushed something to GitHub once, or can follow a short guide to do it. The first introductory module covers the handful of commands and networking basics the build uses, so you don’t need to study them first. Every ticket has hints, and a full solution video if you’d rather watch it done.
How much time does it take?
Plan for 8 weeks at around five hours a week, in three sessions. You get a week-by-week plan, so you always know what to do next. Everything is unlocked on day one and there’s no cohort to keep up with, so a busy month doesn’t put you behind. It’s built for people doing this around a full-time job.
What if I don’t want a FinTech job?
VaultPay is the project you build here, and yes, it’s a FinTech app. But nobody hires you for the app. They hire you for the network you designed, the private database, the load balancer and self-healing app tier, and the Terraform that builds all of it. That same setup is running right now at a bank, a hospital and an online retailer. What you get asked in the interview is why you made those decisions, and that answer works wherever you apply. More projects are coming too, and they’re included.
I already have my certs. Isn’t that enough?
Certs get you past the first filter, and that’s worth having. The trouble starts in the interview, where you get asked what you’ve built and why you built it that way. Students who had certifications in the initial cohort I ran still had nothing they could walk an interviewer through. This sits on top of the certs you’ve already got.
Isn’t one big project worse than several smaller ones?
Five small projects give you five shallow answers. One system you built end to end gives you an hour of things to talk about, and an interviewer will pick one thing and keep asking why. That’s why you build one platform here instead of a folder of demos.
Will this actually help me in interviews, not just teach me skills?
That’s what the last part of the course is for. The interview prep is built around the project you’ve just finished, so the answers you practise are about your own work rather than a made-up example. You also get my review of your code, which means someone has questioned your decisions before an interviewer does.
Does running the labs cost money on AWS?
A little. Most of what you build sits inside the AWS free tier, and for the parts that don’t, I show you how to tear things down when you’ve finished for the night. You’re looking at a few dollars at most while you work through it.
What if it’s not for me?
Try it for 7 days. If it isn’t what you wanted, email me inside 7 days and I’ll refund you in full, no questions. And if you finish the build and submit it for review but you’re still not happy with it, we’ll keep going until it’s interview ready.
Studying got you this far. Experience is what employers ask for.
Keep applying with the same resume as everyone else. Or start learning the skills and building the project employers ask about.
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