Get Unstuck and Grow Your Tech Career
Acquire new skills. Secure a promotion or new role.
Leave fear, anxiety, and imposter syndrome behind.
Lead with confidence. Enhance your self-worth.
Get peace of mind.
Using The Five Essential Foundations for Career Advancement™ framework for software engineers
My Approach to Coaching Software Engineers
I listen deeply and ask questions to understand the driving forces behind your reasoning and goals. Together, we create a highly personalized plan for you. Though sustained execution, I hold you accountable to your plan.
This iterative loop enables you to advance and make a lasting change toward a better you!
Listening and Asking Questions
Describing our challenges out loud enables us to articulate our thoughts clearly and logically.
You move beyond internal mental loops and see the problem from a new perspective.
I listen to your goals and ask insightful questions to deepen your understanding and lead you to fresh insights and solutions.
Creating a Personalized Plan
Fresh insights and new solutions reveal gaps in our skills and mindset.
These are the opportunity areas we work on to put your fresh insights into actions that yield positive results.
I create a highly personalized plan for you to take the right actions and make the mindset shifts necessary for advancement.
Accountability to Your Plan
Every plan needs to be executed in order to yield results.
I give you unbiased feedback and challenge you in a deeply supportive way as you execute.
Sustained execution is the hardest part of any plan. I hold you accountable to execute effectively and get results.
Benefits of My Career Coaching
My career coaching offers concrete as well as holistic benefits:
Concrete Benefits
Learn new skills quickly
Get promoted to Staff and Principal levels faster
Get a new job faster
Transition to a more suitable role more easily
Climb salary bands by becoming a high performer
Access new solutions and paths previously obscured
Holistic Benefits
Get clarity and direction in your career
Get unbiased feedback
Be accountable to deliver on your goals
Stay motivated through setbacks
Practice your new skills and get highly personalized course corrections for effective results
Coaching Packages I Offer
The SWE Coaching Package
Imagine the ROI of getting your next promotion a year earlier!
Or the ROI of switching to a more suitable role faster!
Leave fear, anxiety, and imposter syndrome behind to advance your career. I will be your trusted partner to give you direction for your growth and peace of mind.
This package is for software engineers and adjacent professionals who feel stuck or uncertain in their careers.
My coaching blends technical expertise, career guidance, leadership skills, mindset shifts, and other personal development strategies.
The skills you learn will enable you to advance well beyond our coaching engagement.
Ready to make a bigger impact and gain financial abundance? Get Started Now!
The Job Search Package
Imagine landing your next job a month quicker in this challenging job market!
Imagine being leveled in a higher salary band after your next job interview!
I will be your trusted partner in making your stressful and exhausting job search significantly less stressful. Accelerate your search with clarity of what to focus on. Stay confident and have peace of mind while interviewing.
This package includes resume preparation, job search strategy, interview preparation, and offer evaluation.
I begin with clarity on your long-term career aspirations and end with accountability throughout the job search process.
Ready to find your next role that’s aligned with your long-term career aspirations? Get Started Now!
Your Investment
These coaching programs are designed for Senior through Principal Engineers looking to grow with clarity, confidence, and long-term momentum.
Clients often use this time to:
Secure promotions
Navigate Staff+ transitions
Prepare for job changes
Resolve long-standing leadership blockers
Effective July 1st, 2025, here is the investment for individual clients:
| Package name | 50-minute sessions every 2 weeks | Payment by credit card | Payment plans | Included | Curated Extras |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarity & Starter Session: Gain fast clarity on a high-stakes challenge—or see if coaching is right for you. | One session only (Limited to one per client in a 6-month period.) |
$980 | Full payment only | 1. Personalized coaching plan tailored to your growth needs. 2. One-month view access to session video. |
Full credit if you enroll in Growth Sprint or Career Evolution within 7 days. Half credit if you enroll within 14 days. |
| Growth Sprint: Overcome an immediate challenge or ace specific interview types. | 6 sessions over 3 months | $4,750 | Full payment only | 1. Personalized coaching plan. 2. Email support with 48-hour response time on business days. 3. One-year view access to session videos. |
None. |
| Career Evolution: Step into technical leadership and grow into the next version of your role, career, and self. | 12 sessions over 6 months | $7,500 | Full payment or six monthly installments (Credit card auto-charged every month.) |
1. One year of Taro Premium membership! 2. 40% off one year of CodeCrafters membership. |
Discounts:
The Taro Premium and CodeCrafters membership codes will be shared after you sign the contract and make your first payment.
5% off for returning clients, the spouse of a client, or my former mentees.
If you are eligible for more than one discount, the highest one applies.
Discounts cannot be combined.
For other questions, visit the Frequently Asked Questions.
Corporate clients: Please contact me on LinkedIn.
Trusted by Engineers at Leading Tech Companies
and many more…
About Me
Hi! I am Shine Garg, a former Staff Software Engineer turned Coach for Software Engineers.
Over my 16-year career, I accumulated many fond memories and achievements, but I also faced challenges without a steady mentor to guide me. I often wondered how much further I could have gone with continuous guidance!
Engineering career ladders often lack clear paths for skill development, and managers or one-off mentors do not have the time or proximity to provide adequate support at key career junctures.
So, I decided to be that coach for others through my new venture, Uncharted Path Breakthroughs™, dedicated to helping software engineers and adjacent professionals who are feeling stuck in their careers.
My coaching helps you pursue a promotion, land a new job or transition to a more suitable role. The skills that you will develop with me will enable you to advance well beyond our coaching engagement.
Additionally, I partner with tech companies to retain and grow their talent through my coaching. This model has an impressive ROI, given the staggering cost of up to $200,000 to replace a single engineer!
Questions? Message me on LinkedIn!
Clients I’ve Coached: Functional Areas, Levels, Geographies
Applied Science
Backend Engineering
Data Engineering
Data Science
Developer Experience
Frontend Engineering
Fullstack Engineering
Infrastructure
Machine Learning
Solution Engineering
Technical Program Management
Principal
Staff
Senior I & II
Software Engineer III
🇺🇲 United States
🇮🇳 India
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
🇦🇺 Australia (workshops)
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