Magebit IT Bootcamp 2026

About Magebit IT Bootcamp 2026

Magebit IT Bootcamp 2026 was a free, two-week, on-site programme held from Monday 8 June to Friday 19 June 2026 at the Magebit office in Riga (Uriekstes iela 2A), and it was built around one change: AI coding agents. Participants got a single task — build a real online store — and spent their time planning and prompting rather than writing code line by line. Places were limited to 20, earned through an application and a technical test, and the programme ran in English. Details were published on bootcamp.magebit.com.

Trainers

Trainers: Magebit developers Raimonds Vizulis, Armands Jānis Lukaševičs and Dāvis Laksbergs, himself a bootcamp alumnus.

The agent-driven workflow is the same shift toward AI-assisted development that Magebit brings to client work.

The brief

Every team’s store had to meet the same bar:

• Load times under a second
• No critical code issues
• A full feature set, from search to checkout

Highlights

• Week one: Agent-driven development, Git, frameworks, CSS and database design, then each team’s homepage and product listing.
• Week two: Product pages, cart and checkout with a Stripe payment integration, an admin panel and responsive design.
• Final demos: Two weeks earlier, most of the participants had never shipped an online store. On the final Friday all four teams demoed one that worked.
• Graduation: The bootcamp closed with certificates and a graduation in caps, with top performers in line for a job offer at Magebit.

About Magebit IT Bootcamp 2025

Magebit IT Bootcamp 2025 was a two-week, on-site programme for aspiring developers, held from 30 June to 11 July 2025 at Magebit’s headquarters in Riga (Uriekstes iela 2A), with sessions starting at 13:00 each day. Taught in English, it gave 20 candidates — chosen on the results of a technical test — hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Git, the technologies Magebit uses to build e-commerce solutions. Applications went through Magebit Careers.

Trainers

Trainers: Magebit developers Raimonds Vizulis, a senior DevOps engineer, Edvards Dergačevs and Aleks Grišins, with guest lecturers from other parts of the company sharing how e-commerce work runs day to day.

Highlights

• Practical skills: Participants built websites and browser games, set up their development environment and learned to debug code.
• E-commerce foundations: The programme introduced how online stores are built and run, using real-life Magebit cases.
• Squads on stage: Teams presented their projects at the closing ceremony and were called up squad by squad for their certificates and gift bags.
• A path into Magebit: Graduates who completed the bootcamp and passed the final test could apply for a junior web developer position at Magebit.

About Magebit IT Bootcamp 2024

Magebit IT Bootcamp 2024 was a free, two-week, on-site programme for aspiring developers, held from 8 to 19 July 2024 at the Magebit office in Riga (Uriekstes iela 2A), with sessions starting at 13:00. All classes were in English, and the programme centred on e-commerce development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Git, ending with participants building and presenting their own online stores. Applications ran through bootcamp.magebit.com.

Trainers and guest speakers

Trainers: Magebit developers Aleks Grišins and Edvards Dergačevs — Aleks himself a graduate of the 2023 bootcamp.

Guest speakers: designer Liāna Rudzīte on UI/UX, product owner Mārtiņš Balčūns, HR specialist Elīza Grīnvalde, and developer Maikls Eglītis, another 2023 graduate.

Highlights

• From setup to storefront: Participants went from configuring their development environment to a working online store, the core of what Magebit builds as an e-commerce development agency.
• Squad projects: Participants worked in squads, each presenting its project on stage at the finale.
• Graduation: The two weeks closed with certificates and a graduation in mortarboards on the office stage.
• A route into the team: Successful graduates could enter the selection for a junior web developer role at Magebit.

About Magebit IT Bootcamp 2023

Magebit IT Bootcamp 2023 was the second Magebit bootcamp, held in August 2023 at the Magebit office in Riga, and it swapped the classroom format for team projects. Magebit planned and ran it entirely in-house, without an external training partner, and chose 20 participants from the applicants.

On day one they were split into four teams of five, and each team had two weeks to deliver its own project in Laravel — back-end features and front-end design alike — working in agile cycles with continuous feedback and coordinating on Discord.

Trainers and guest lectures

Trainers: Ilvars Švanda and Edvards Dergačevs, who guided the teams through every stage of their projects.

Guest lectures: UX design, HR and agile project management, adding the view from outside the code.

Highlights

• Real projects, real teams: Each team scoped, built and presented its own Laravel application, the way a Magebit development team works on a client build.
• Agile from day one: Short feedback cycles taught participants to adjust their plans as the project changed, not just to write code.
• Hired: Aleks Grišins and Maikls Eglītis were offered positions at Magebit after the bootcamp. A year later both were back at the 2024 bootcamp, Aleks as a trainer and Maikls among the speakers.
• Fuelled by Red Bull: Red Bull supported the edition, and its cans doubled as the props for a stacking challenge.

Their own accounts of the two weeks are in the 2023 bootcamp recap.

About Magebit IT Bootcamp 2022

Magebit IT Bootcamp 2022, run as the Riga Coding Bootcamp, was a free, four-week, on-site coding programme held from 1 to 26 August 2022 at Magebit’s headquarters in Riga. It was the first Magebit bootcamp, organised by Magebit in partnership with Riga Coding School for students and IT newcomers, with English as the working language throughout.

Within a week of the announcement more than 70 people applied, and the 25 with the best test-task results were enrolled.

What the bootcampers learned

Each day combined three hours of theory with five hours of practical tasks, in two smaller groups so every question got answered. The programme covered web development from front end to back end:

• HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• PHP and Git
• Real-life cases, best practices and code reviews at every step
• Guest lectures by Magebit project managers, HR, junior QA and developers

The aim was to give each participant the hands-on skills to start building online shops — the same kind of e-commerce development Magebit does for clients.

Highlights

• Certified: 23 of the 25 participants graduated with a certificate after presenting their final project in the fourth week.
• Hired: 4 graduates joined the Magebit team.
• Recurring: The response convinced Magebit to make the bootcamp a regular part of its social agenda, which it has been every year since.

Fridays ended with pizza and board games in the office kitchen, and the winners of the closing contest went to the Magebit birthday party. The full recap is on the blog: Magebit Riga Coding Bootcamp 2022 highlights.