April 2026 — Monthly Tracker
Summary: Break + Plan Pivot Month
Apr 13–26: Break taken. No study. Apr 17: Major plan pivot — AWS cert, Go track, LangChain, Blog all dropped. New focus: 7 interview topics. Apr 27: Restart as W05.
What Actually Happened
| Week | Dates | DSA | Other | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W03 | Mar 30–Apr 5 | Stack — 8 problems ✅ | EC2 review ✅ | ✅ Done |
| W04 | Apr 6–12 | Binary Search — 6 problems ✅ | MANAPPURAM finance ✅ | ✅ DSA only |
| Break | Apr 13–26 | — | Plan pivot Apr 17 | ❌ Break |
| W05 | Apr 27–May 3 | Linked Lists | URL Shortener + SQL | 🔄 Starts tomorrow |
Plan Pivot — Apr 17
Dropped for good:
- AWS MLA-C01 cert
- Go mastery track
- LangChain deep dive
- Blog / vectorbuilds.dev
- Layrs.me
New 7-topic focus: DSA → System Design → SQL → API Design → FastAPI → LLD → Python internals
See updated plan: [[Private/Project_2026/Goals/Weekly Progress Tracker]]
Original Goals — Final Status
| Goal | Original Due | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| NeetCode: Linked Lists | Apr 12 | ❌ Not done — pushed to W05 |
| NeetCode: Trees | Apr 26 | ❌ Not done — pushed to W06 |
| NeetCode: Tries | Apr 30 | ❌ Not done — pushed to W07 |
| AWS: Kinesis + Glue | Apr 12 | ❌ Dropped (AWS cert dropped) |
| AWS: SageMaker | Apr 19 | ❌ Dropped |
| AWS: Athena | Apr 26 | ❌ Dropped |
| AWS: Bedrock + Agents | Apr 30 | ❌ Dropped |
| System Design: API Gateway | Apr 11 | ❌ Not done — in W05 queue |
| System Design: YouTube | Apr 18 | ❌ Not done — W10 |
| System Design: Twitter Feed | Apr 25 | ❌ Not done — W11 |
| Layrs.me: M4-M6 | Apr 26 | ❌ Dropped |
| Go: Boot.dev ch4–7 | Apr 30 | ❌ Dropped |
| Blog article #1 | Apr 7 | ❌ Dropped |
What Carried Forward
✅ DSA done: Stack (8 problems) + Binary Search (6 problems) — patterns 3 + 4 complete ✅ Finance: Major portfolio restructure Mar 30 + ONGC bought Apr 1 + MANAPPURAM tracked ✅ Work: AskTGE performance fixes most completed (see Performance Issues Tracker)