Skills · Coached Program

Become an AI Engineer in 12 Weeks

Ship your first LLM product and land an AI role in 12 weeks.

$99
one-time
12w
duration
3
milestones
2
enrolled

About this program

A structured 12-week program for software engineers who want to transition into AI. You will build 3 portfolio projects (RAG pipeline, fine-tuned model, AI agent), get weekly code reviews, and leave with a proof-backed Outcome Card. Prerequisite: comfort with Python and basic ML intuition.

Program milestones

1
Foundations: LLM APIs + Prompt Engineering~14 days

Get your dev environment set up, call your first LLM, and learn the prompt patterns that matter for production.

Proof you'll submit

Share a screenshot of your working chat API call + one prompt you optimised. Explain what changed and why.

Resources

OpenAI API Quickstart

Gets you from zero to first API call in 10 minutes.

Prompt Engineering Guide

Structured survey of prompting techniques — chain-of-thought, few-shot, and more.

2
Build a RAG Pipeline~21 days

Ingest a document corpus into a vector store and build a retrieval-augmented generation API.

Proof you'll submit

Share your GitHub repo link + a short Loom demo of your RAG pipeline answering 3 questions it could not answer from training data alone.

Resources

LangChain RAG Tutorial

Official walkthrough that builds the exact pipeline for this milestone.

3
Ship an AI Agent~21 days

Design, build, and deploy an AI agent with tool use (at least 2 tools). Deploy to a public URL.

Proof you'll submit

Share the deployed URL + describe one edge case your agent handles well and one it still gets wrong.

Resources

OpenAI Function Calling Docs

The foundation for reliable tool use. Read before writing a single line of agent code.

About the coach

Dr. Kiran D

AI Engineer · helping you ship your first LLM product

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