About Us

We're a dedicated group of engineers with a rich history of working at leading software organizations and handling expansive systems.

Author Bio

Sheldon Chi, Ex-Google, ex-Amazon engineer. Worked on large-scale systems such as Google Ads and Amazon Kinesis. Passionate educator. Creator of AlgoMonster. Sheldon studied computer science at University of Waterloo.

Jerry Luan, Ex-Google, ex-Meta engineer. Worked on large-scale systems such as Google Ads and Facebook Ads. Jerry attended Tsinghua University.

Why we created System Design School

System design is hard to prepare because the lack of systematic approach. When we were preparing for system design. The existing materials out there are mostly collection of information collected from engineering blogs. It feels very arm wavy. The best approach was to read a whole bunch of material and memorize them. This is really not how computer science should be taught and reasoned. We created System Design School as a crash course to equip the users with the fundamental knowledge and skills so they can design systems and solve problems themselves.