SkillBricks
Coming soon 2026

Your wall speaks before
your name does.

SkillBricks is the verified-skills platform for DevOps, SRE, and Support engineers. Engineers prove what they can actually do in production-like environments. Hiring teams discover them by what they have built, not what they claim.

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  • All bricks47
  • Kubernetes18
  • Linux11
  • Cloud-native9
  • Observability6
  • Security3
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  • Tier 3 and above14
  • Last 30 days9
  • Gold only3
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Forge Ember-7P2N
SRE · 6 yrs · Berlin Verified
47
Bricks
3
Gold
14
Tier 3
Pod OOMKilled at scale
Tier 3
Area
Kubernetes
Time
23m
Captured
62 commands · 14 artefacts
Stack
k8s 1.29linuxcilium
Captured trace
live

                  
For engineers

Stop proving on a CV.
Start showing on a wall.

Your work is your portfolio. Every brick is a verifiable record of a real problem you solved, captured end to end.

Real environments. No quizzes.

Every assessment is a production-like scenario in a live cluster, container, or cloud sandbox. The same tools you would reach for on the job, against problems worth your time.

Earn bricks. Build a wall.

Pass and earn a brick. Bricks accumulate into a public Skill Wall that says, here is what I can do, with the trace to back it up. Anonymous to hiring teams by default.

Process intelligence, not just a score.

Every command, artefact, and decision is captured. Hiring teams see not just whether you got there, but how you got there, and how you reasoned under constraint.

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How it works

Four steps from problem to proof.

A repeatable loop that captures real ability, not multiple-choice trivia or whiteboard theatre.

STEP 01

Pick a scenario

Browse production-like problems by stack and tier. Each scenario tells you the environment, the budget, and the pass criteria upfront.

STEP 02

Solve it live

A real cluster, container, or cloud sandbox spins up. Use the same tools you would on the job: kubectl, ssh, terraform, your editor.

STEP 03

Earn a brick

Pass and the brick joins your wall. Tier and freshness reflect the difficulty and how recently you proved it. Gold bricks are top tier.

STEP 04

Get discovered

Hiring teams search Skill Walls by skill, tier, and freshness. They see your trace before they reach out. No resume mediation.

For hiring teams

Hire on proof, not pedigree.

A verified candidate pool you can search by ability, backed by the same trace the engineer generated while solving the problem.

Verified, not claimed.

Every Skill Wall is an end-to-end record of an engineer's actual ability. Real environments, real artefacts, real decisions, all captured live and timestamped.

Signal over titles.

Search by skill, tier, and freshness. Cross-reference the process intelligence behind any brick before you reach out. Find engineers who can do the work.

Direct contact.

Talk to the engineer directly inside the platform. No third-party broker. No CV mediation. No resume blackbox between you and the people you want to hire.

Get notified when discovery opens
The difference

CVs describe.
Skill Walls prove.

Traditional hiring
SkillBricks
Signal of ability
Self-reported claims
End-to-end captured proof
Environment
Slides and whiteboards
Live clusters and shells
How decisions are visible
Inferred from interview chat
Every command, every diff
Search and discovery
Keyword match on resume
By skill, tier, freshness
Identity and bias
Name and pedigree first
Anonymous skills first
Reading

From the SkillBricks blog.

Product thinking, technical deep-dives, and hiring industry commentary. New posts when we have something worth saying.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Engineers in DevOps, SRE, Platform, and Support roles who work in cloud-native environments, and the hiring teams looking to find them. We start with deep coverage on Kubernetes, Linux, and cloud-native scenarios, and extend from there.
Coding assessments check whether you can write a function. SkillBricks scenarios drop you into a live environment with a real production-like problem, and capture every command, decision, and artefact you produce while solving it.
Not by default. Your Skill Wall is anonymous. Hiring teams see your skills, traces, and tier first. You decide when and how to share your identity.
Each scenario carries a tier (1 to 3, with Gold for the hardest). Tiers reflect difficulty, time pressure, and the realism of the failure modes. Freshness shows when you last proved a skill.
Yes. Engineers will always be free on SkillBricks. The platform is funded by hiring teams who get access to verified Skill Walls.
Engineer onboarding and the first scenarios open in 2026. Discovery for hiring teams follows shortly after. Join the waitlist on the form below to hear first.
Get early access

Two doors. Pick yours.

Engineers and hiring teams join different lists. We will email you with an invite when your side opens up.

For engineers

Request early access.

Be first in line for an invite. Your seat in the early cohort, and the seed of your Skill Wall, before public launch.

SRE DevOps Platform Support Security
Anonymous to hiring teams by default. Skills first. Identity later.
For hiring teams

Get notified when discovery opens.

Be invited to the discovery beta with full Skill Walls and traces for every candidate from day one.

No third-party broker. No CV mediation. No resume blackbox.