Digital Product engineering

Product Architecture Workshop

12 week program starting June 1, 2026 8–10 PM Monday and Wednesday Miami

Not around Miami? Raise your hand for a remote cohort

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South Pointe Technologies

Why this exists

We exist to lead in the formation of digital product architects and software engineers, and to open that path with affordable tuition and a real community environment.

Who it’s for

Students

Build an honest foundation before the market expects you to fake expertise.

Career changers

Structure, live critique, and a cohort instead of another lonely online course.

Practitioners

Tighten standards, fix habits, trade notes with others who care about the craft.

Curriculum catalog

Process (Understanding)

Problem definition
Hierarchic set diagram (applicable to anything)
Use right tool
- State transition
- IEEE + extension
Process model: SSADM + extension or IDEF0

Science (Metaphysics)

On Being & Essence
Aristotle [4]. How to think: composition; causality; actual–potential; four laws of thought.
Re-assertion
- Definition truth (not consensus, not citations)
- Sanity vs Insanity
Definition science vs Scientism

Science (Application)

Data (Understanding)

Observation, analysis
Order vs Chaos
Hierarchy vs Equality
Atomicity vs Fragment
Meaning
Normalisation

Relational model

Dr. E. F. Codd

RM progression · Asirvadem

RM articulated
RM progressed
Predicate Calculus
Normal forms

Implementation (Standard)

Process Modelling

SSADM + extension

GUI Design

Navigating the Tree

State transition

IEEE + extension

Data modelling · Asirvadem

IDEF1X + extension

RDB implementation

SQL

DDL
DML: approach & proper use

Open architecture

OLTP standard
OLAP

Practical

Case study 1

Case study 2

Case study [yours]

What the foundations allow you do

The workshop isn’t only ideas in the room. It’s orientation toward outcomes you can use: lean operations, honest software, and leadership that doesn’t flinch when the stack or the vendor deck changes.

Lean BI

Run efficient, powerful, scalable reporting and analytics without the usual cost bloat. Lean means standards, discipline, and infrastructure that earns its place next to the ledger, not another heavyweight stack because a vendor said so.

Application development

Approach B2B and B2C software seriously: product-shaped systems, integrations, and automations you can maintain and defend. Architecture before hero demos, contracts you understand before you sign.

Level up as an architect

Hold your own in the boardroom, run software procurement with judgment, and lead teams by refusing noisy trends and thinking in principles, so decisions serve the business, not the brochure.

Cohort options

Two parallel twelve-week tracks meet once a week in person in the Miami area. Compare the tracks below and pick yours. Corporate and custom programs for teams use separate pricing (see the third card).

Novice cohort

Begin with fundamentals and build a solid base: materials and live instruction together.

Next cohort

June 1st 2026

Where

TBD, Gables Area

Curriculum highlights

◆Intro to T-SQL (MSSQL)
◆Intro to data analysis
◆Intro to data modeling standards
◆Intro to SQL standards
◆Intro to Elixir & Livebook
◆Do’s and don’ts with AI

Practitioner cohort

So you have some skill. Time to refine how you design, model, and ship solutions.

Next cohort

June 1st 2026

Where

TBD, Gables Area

Curriculum highlights

◆Data analysis
◆Data modeling standards
◆Process modeling standards
◆User interface standards
◆SQL standards
◆OLTP Standards

Cusqueño-style painting of winged hussar cavalry in formation

By request

Corporate training

A tailored program for your team: curriculum design, cohort-style leveling up, corporate training, and seminars, delivered on your premises or live online.

General consulting: South Pointe Technologies.

Get in touch

Tap this card to open the interest form with corporate / custom training pre-selected, or describe your needs in the message field.

Tuition

$3,000Same for both tracks; open for payment details

Tuition is for twelve weeks of serious formation: mentorship, live critique, and a small community of people who care about the work. We build honest foundations, shared standards, and principles that outlast the tool of the month, with skillsets and habits you can stand behind when the stack changes again.

$300 when you sign up to reserve your spot, already included in the $3,000 total.
The rest ($2,700): paid every two weeks through Stripe after you’re enrolled.

The $300 deposit isn’t refundable. If you have to miss this cohort, we’ll hold it as a credit and apply it when you enroll in a future one.

Bringing a team or need a custom program? That’s priced separately. Use the corporate card or tell us more in the interest form.

Technologies & platforms in the cohorts

Elixir, Livebook, and SQL Server: core tools in the curriculum

Elixir: functional language on the Erlang VM; concurrency, fault tolerance, and OTP in the workshop.

Livebook: interactive Elixir notebooks for runnable lessons, experiments, and teaching.

Microsoft SQL Server: T-SQL, relational modeling, and standards-aligned data work.

Meet your instructors

The workshop bears the name of St. Simeon the Stylite, a figure remembered for perseverance in formation. Instruction is carried out in person, week by week, by the faculty named below, each responsible for defined elements of the curriculum and the orderly progress of both cohorts.

Rick

Program Director

Aragorn, leads from experience; directs curriculum, live sessions, and the bar for SQL, modeling, and engineering.

Aragorn, leads from experience rather than noise, carries the long view, and cares that the cohort crosses the finish line in good order, not for show, but because the work matters. Directs curriculum, live sessions, and the standard we hold for SQL, modeling, and product engineering.

Derek

Grand Master

Gandalf, steady voice when you’re stuck; facilitates cohort meetings, guided reviews, and progress on both tracks.

Gandalf, the steady voice that reframes what you thought you were building, patience when you’re stuck, and a low tolerance for cutting corners on the important things. Facilitates cohort meetings, guided reviews, and steady progress across both tracks.

Danilo

Associate Instuctor

Gimli, plainspoken, bench-focused; supports sessions, exercises, and the detail work until it holds up.

Gimli, plainspoken, loves the bench, and happy to tinker until the behavior is right. Supports cohort sessions, exercises, and the stubborn detail work that turns drafts into something you can stand behind.

Will

Associate Instuctor

Legolas: calm precision; supports meetings and reviews (code, structure, cohort rhythm, craft and people).

Legolas: calm precision, a quick read when something’s off, and an eye for alignment in code, structure, and cohort rhythm. Supports meetings and reviews with the kind of exactness that respects both the craft and the people doing it.

Sponsors & partners

This work is easier to believe in when institutions lend their name to it. The organizations we have worked with and our corporate sponsors help validate the mission: serious formation, real relationships, and craftsmanship that serves something larger than a resume line.

Organizations we’ve worked with

To those we have built great things for.

El Car Wash
Ultimate Kronos Group
Commonwealth Bank

Corporate sponsors

United Property Mgt
Alkane Financial

Get on the interest list

Tell us who you are and which track fits. Tuition is $3,000 total ($300 when you enroll, then biweekly payments on what’s left). We’ll reply with Stripe checkout and scheduling details.