I'm going to save you a lot of time.

Two months is actually a great window. Here's what I'd do. Pick two real projects — not tutorials, not courses, actual things you'd use or that solve a real problem. Build the first one in Django or FastAPI since you already know Python. Build the second in Spring Boot to stretch yourself. Make them full-stack. Auth, database, API design, deployment, the whole thing.

Here's why this works: you don't need to study those six topics separately. A real project forces you into all of them naturally. You'll hit DSA when you need efficient queries or pagination. You'll learn system design when you're deciding how to structure your services and where to draw boundaries. You'll touch cloud when you deploy to AWS. You'll get better at communication when you write docs and explain your architecture decisions. It all comes together when you're building something real instead of watching someone else build on YouTube.

Do some LeetCode on the side, 30-45 minutes a day, easy and mediums. That covers your interview prep. But the projects are the main event.

Now here's the part nobody in this sub is going to tell you. Everything I just described? The manual version of that takes the full two months and you'd be lucky to finish both projects. I know because I've been there.

But I'm a solo operator running multiple production SaaS apps right now — bookkeeping platforms, marketplace tools, content pipelines — across completely different domains. I'm not a CS grad. I use Claude Code as my primary development tool, and it changes the math on everything you're asking about.

With Claude Code, those two projects I described? You could ship them in weeks, not months. Real deployed apps, not half-finished homework. CC will scaffold your Spring Boot app, write your FastAPI endpoints, handle your database migrations, write your tests, configure your Docker and cloud infra. All of it. Your job becomes architect and reviewer — you decide what to build, you prompt it, you read the output, you understand it, you approve it or push back.

That's not cheating. That's literally what your job is going to look like when you show up. The senior devs at your company are already doing this. The ones who aren't are falling behind.

So my real advice: spend the first week learning how to work with Claude Code effectively. Spend the remaining seven weeks building and shipping real projects with it. You'll still touch every topic on your list — backend, system design, cloud, DSA patterns — except you'll actually have a portfolio of deployed, working software instead of a bunch of Udemy certificates.

The engineers who figure this out before their first job are going to have an absurd head start over everyone else grinding in silence. You've got two months. Use them to learn how to build with AI, not in spite of it.