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Ship AI Products in Production

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Ship a real AI-powered product to production and keep it live with real users — proof is usage data and a technical post-mortem, not a tutorial.

Lead Across Functions Without Authority

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Diagnose the structural cause of a real cross-team collaboration failure, fix it, and measure the before/after change in how often it recurs.

Manage Stakeholders at Every Level

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Take a real, live stakeholder misalignment — diagnose whether it's an information, priority, or constraint gap — and resolve it to a documented outcome.

First Three Projects Shipped (Beginner to Public App)

5 milestones · 16 weeks

Write, run, and ship your first Python programs — from a terminal hello-world to a deployed web app that real strangers can use.

Build and Deploy Your First Web App

5 milestones · 12 weeks

Build a complete web application — frontend, backend, and deployed to a public URL — that real strangers can use without any instructions from you.

Master Python for Real Projects

5 milestones · 12 weeks

Write Pythonic code, work with APIs and external libraries, build and test a data pipeline, and publish a real Python package on PyPI.

Make Your First Open Source Contribution

3 milestones · 6 weeks

Get a pull request merged into a public GitHub repository with 100+ stars.

Earn AWS Solutions Architect Certification

3 milestones · 8 weeks

Pass the AWS SAA-C03 exam on first or second attempt.

Ship an AI Product to Real Users

4 milestones · 10 weeks

Take an AI feature or product from working demo to 10 active users outside your network. Proven by real usage data, not by the code shipping.

Master SQL for Data Analysis

4 milestones · 8 weeks

Write and optimize complex queries across joins, CTEs, window functions, and indexes on a real production dataset.

Master Statistics for Data Analysis

5 milestones · 10 weeks

Apply descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, regression, and A/B test design to real datasets — every milestone requires working with real data and documenting the decisions, not just the calculations.

Complete a Kaggle Competition (Top 25%)

3 milestones · 8 weeks

Enter and submit a Kaggle competition, finishing in the top 25% of participants.

Build a UX Design Portfolio

3 milestones · 12 weeks

Create 5 case studies documenting design process from brief to shipped product.

Earn CISSP Certification

3 milestones · 16 weeks

Pass the CISSP exam and complete the endorsement process.

Ship a Product from 0 to 1 as PM

3 milestones · 16 weeks

Take a product from idea to public launch with measurable user adoption.

Build a Tested Time-Series Forecast

0 milestones · 4 weeks

Turn real market or macro data into a clean return series and beat — or honestly fail to beat — a naive baseline on data the model never saw.

Backtest a Trading Strategy Honestly

0 milestones · 5 weeks

Write rules first, backtest with costs and no look-ahead, then test on a held-out period and defend the results. Historical data only, not investment advice.

Build a Risk-Managed Portfolio Model

0 milestones · 5 weeks

Estimate risk and correlation, build a portfolio tested against equal weights out of sample, and stress-test it through real crises and a made-up shock.

Earn AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate

0 milestones · 10 weeks

Pass the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate exam (MLA-C01). The exam covers four domains: Data Preparation for Machine Learning, ML Model Development, Deployment and Orchestration of ML Workflows, and ML Solution Monitoring, Maintenance, and Security. Passing score: 720/1000.

Earn CompTIA Security+ Certification

0 milestones · 10 weeks

Pass the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam — the industry entry standard for cybersecurity roles. Covers five domains: General Security Concepts, Threats/Vulnerabilities/Mitigations, Security Architecture, Security Operations, and Security Program Management. Vendor-neutral; recognised by DoD 8570 and virtually every security team.

Earn CompTIA Network+ Certification

0 milestones · 10 weeks

Pass the CompTIA Network+ N10-009 exam — the foundational networking credential for IT professionals. Covers five domains: Networking Concepts, Network Implementation, Network Operations, Network Security, and Network Troubleshooting. Vendor-neutral and globally recognised as the baseline for networking roles.

Earn Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate

0 milestones · 12 weeks

Pass the Microsoft AZ-104 exam and earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate credential. Covers Azure identity and governance, storage, compute resources, virtual networking, and monitoring. The primary certification for professionals who implement, manage, and monitor an Azure environment.

Earn Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate

0 milestones · 10 weeks

Pass the Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate exam. Covers five areas: Databricks Lakehouse Platform, ELT with Spark SQL and Python, Incremental Data Processing with Delta Lake, Production Pipelines, and Data Governance. The foundational certification for data engineers working on the Lakehouse architecture.

Build an End-to-End ML Pipeline

0 milestones · 12 weeks

Build a machine learning pipeline from raw data to deployed model serving real predictions in production.