Thakaa Academy
Pick a career path. Master it with verified exams, flashcards, and mock interviews. Ship a real project with a full solution and an interview guide. Walk away with a portfolio, a CV, and a LinkedIn profile ready to send. All in one platform, with an AI coach that updates your profile for the role you're targeting, guides you to close every skill gap, preps you for the interview, and writes your cover letter.
See Thakaa Academy in action
A 30-second walkthrough of the marketplace, the career paths, and the AI coach — see it before you read about it.
Tracks
AI Engineering & Prompt Design
Build with LLMs the way modern AI products actually work — prompting, RAG, and responsible AI.
AI for Non-Technical Professionals
A no-code introduction to what AI actually is and how it's used — for a non-technical audience, distinct from the hands-on AI Engineering & Prompt Design course.
AI Governance & Responsible AI Strategy
The questions that stall an AI project before it ships — bias, explainability, data provenance, and human oversight — and how to build a governance structure that lets leadership actually trust and keep funding what you're building.
AI Product Management: From Idea to Deployment
Product management for AI features specifically — feasibility before a roadmap commitment, evaluation beyond a demo, and the deployment and monitoring decisions generic PM training never covers, because AI products fail in different places than normal software.
API Design & Integration (REST, GraphQL, Auth)
Design an API other engineers actually want to build against — REST conventions, auth, GraphQL, and integrating someone else's API without it breaking in production.
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Certification-Aligned)
Core AWS services, the shared responsibility model, and cloud pricing and support structures — the service-catalog and cloud-business literacy needed to navigate AWS, not hands-on deployment practice.
How it works
Choose your path
Pick one of 19 career paths, each built around a real job — Frontend Developer, Data Scientist, Cybersecurity Analyst, and more.
Master every course
Work through in-depth study guides, review with flashcards, and sit a real, scored exam for each course — not a self-graded quiz.
Build a real project
Own your full path and unlock a project brief built specifically for it. Build it yourself, then reveal a complete solution with real code and its own interview-prep guide.
Walk away job-ready
A public portfolio, a bilingual CV, and a LinkedIn profile ready to send — plus a career coach in your corner the whole way.
Apply with an unfair advantage
Found a real job posting? Paste it into your coach — get an instant skills-gap breakdown, real interview questions for that exact role, and a ready-to-download cover letter. Not generic advice — all of it built around that specific job and your real profile.
What we offer
From zero experience to a portfolio that actually gets you hired — every course, exam, and project is built by specialists with 20+ years of industry experience, so every tool here is practical and hands-on, built to impress a real employer, not just look good on paper.
Take It Anywhere
Install Thakaa Academy as an app on your phone — no app store needed. Study, take exams, and check your portfolio from anywhere.
An AI Career Coach, Anytime
24/7 for career advice, project guidance, and interview prep — stuck or unsure what to do next? Just ask.
Your Profile Writes Itself
Mention a skill, a project, a certification, a past role — it becomes a one-tap card added straight to your profile. Ask it to sharpen your headline or About, and it drafts the whole replacement for you, ready to apply. LinkedIn makes you write your own profile. This one writes with you.
Know Exactly What's Missing — Before You Apply
Paste a real job posting and get an instant breakdown: which of its requirements you already meet, which you don’t, and a direct link to the course that closes each gap. Nobody applies blind again.
Walk Into the Interview Already Prepared
For that same posting, it hands you real, specific interview questions — grounded in the role's actual requirements and your actual background, not generic filler — plus a ready-to-download cover letter that's honest about your experience, never invented.
Built by Real Industry Experts
Every course and exam is prepared by specialists with 20+ years of industry experience — and they’re available for hands-on guidance whenever you need it.
Real Projects + Full Solutions
Own a path and unlock a project brief built specifically for it. Build it yourself — then reveal a complete worked solution with real code and an interview prep guide.
A Public Profile Employers Can Reach You Through
A public portfolio page with your projects, badges, and certificates — plus a contact form so employers can reach you directly. Comes with a one-click, bilingual, printable CV too.
LinkedIn, Written for You
A professionally written for you, built from your actual profile — copy it straight into LinkedIn.
Career Paths
19 bundled course tracks built around one real job — Frontend Developer, Data Scientist, Cybersecurity Analyst, and 16 more.
Not Sure Which Path Fits You?
Tell our AI assistant your background, education, current skills, and where you want to end up — it'll recommend the specific career path and courses that actually match you, not just a generic starting point.
A Learning Order That's Actually Designed
Every career path follows a deliberate sequence — foundations, then depth, then interview prep — built from a real study of how that specific skill is learned, not courses dropped in alphabetical order.
Courses & Study Guides
47 in-depth courses, each with a full study guide, worked examples, and practice problems.
An AI Tutor for Every Course
Ask questions about any course's material anytime — answers are grounded only in that course, so you get accurate, on-topic help instead of generic explanations.
Verified Exams
A real, rigorously graded exam for every single course — not a self-scored quiz. A pass mints a badge on your public profile.
Certificates
Official, verifiable certificates for every passed exam, with a public verification page and a shareable image.
Flashcards
A dedicated flashcard deck for every course, built from its own material — for fast, active recall practice before your exam.
Mock Interviews
Real interview practice for every single course — with instant feedback on every answer, and your progress tracked across attempts.
Built to a depth nothing else matches
Every course, every exam, every flashcard deck, every interview-prep guide — prepared by specialists with 20+ years of industry experience, built from scratch for every single path, not one template reused everywhere.
About Thakaa Academy
Thakaa Academy is a skills-first academy for university students who want to be job-ready in tech before they graduate — built by the team behind the Thakaa platform. We don't replace your degree; we close the gap between coursework and what a hiring manager actually tests for. You work through short, focused tracks with a coach available any time, sit real skill assessments that mint a verified badge (not a self-graded quiz), and leave with a public portfolio and a one-click bilingual CV employers can see directly. Every tool here is practical and hands-on, built to take you from zero experience to a portfolio that actually lands interviews and genuinely impresses employers.
Coach & support hours
- Sunday – Thursday9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Friday – Saturday—
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from my university degree?
It complements it, not replaces it. Your degree covers the theory over several years; each track here is short and focused on the specific practical skills employers actually screen candidates on.
What is a verified skill badge?
A skill assessment you sit and that we score on the platform — a passing result becomes a badge on your portfolio that a self-made profile cannot fake.
Do I get a CV?
Yes — a one-click printable CV in both English and Arabic, generated from your portfolio.
How do I enroll?
We're opening a limited founding cohort first. Leave your details below and we'll reach out to set up your access and track.
What does it cost?
Pricing for the founding cohort will be shared when you reach out — early members get a lower rate.
Join the founding cohort
Tell us which track you want and we'll set up your access.