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Outcome
What you'll be able to do.
Walk into senior AI engineering interviews with production systems you built and can defend end to end.
A production RAG pipeline with evaluation harness, hybrid retrieval, and reranking
An agent system with tool use, guardrails, human-in-the-loop, and cost controls
A voice agent shipped to a real phone number with state recovery and streaming
A vision pipeline that extracts structured data from invoices, receipts, and forms
An observability stack with traces, evals, and regression detection
A senior-level system design artefact you can defend in interviews
Projects you build
Portfolio pieces you can demo.
Each project ships as real code you run locally, not slides you watch. Walk into your next review with something on screen.
01Project
Your own mini Perplexity
A search bar. Type a question. It answers with cited sources, streamed token by token. Handles fresh news, vague questions, technical queries.
PythonQdrantNext.js
You ship: A URL that feels like Perplexity but you built it. Investors, recruiters, and your team will all recognize the shape instantly.
02Project
An AI phone number that answers real calls
A working phone number. Anyone can call it. Your agent picks up, qualifies the caller, and hands off to a specialist agent mid-conversation.
LiveKitFastRTCDeepgram
You ship: Share the number in an interview. The recruiter calls it. Your agent answers. That is the demo; no further explanation needed.
03Project
A vision agent that reads invoices
Drop in a photo of an invoice, receipt, or form. It extracts the line items, tax, totals, and dates into typed JSON. Works on messy real-world PDFs.
GPT-4 VisionPythonPydantic
You ship: A working demo with 20 real invoice photos and an accuracy number. The kind of thing a finance-tech company would hire you for.
04Project
An observability dashboard your team can use
Every LLM call traced. Every feature's weekly cost. Eval scores that block merges when retrieval quality drops. No more guessing.
PhoenixLangfusePostgres
You ship: A dashboard screenshot for your portfolio, plus the CI config that kept quality from regressing in the last month.
Curriculum
What's inside.
01
Sentiment classification with LLMs and few-shot prompting
Build a multi-task NLP service powered by focused LLM prompts and per-task streaming.
2h
02
Streaming LLM Applications with FastAPI
Stream LLM responses in real-time and master prompt engineering fundamentals.
3h
03
Long document RAG with conversational memory
Build a conversational AI tutor over long PDFs with chapter-aware chunking and memory-backed retrieval.
3h
04
RAG systems with ChromaDB and cross-encoder reranking
Build a grounded RAG chatbot with ChromaDB, web scraping, and cross-encoder reranking.
3h
05
Hybrid document search with Qdrant and Sentence Transformers
Hybrid retrieval with dense vectors, sparse keywords, RRF fusion, and cross-encoder reranking.
4h
06
Advanced RAG with query rewriting and evaluation
Add query rewriting, sub-graphs, PII scrubbing, and RAGAS scoring to a production RAG pipeline.
4h
07
Graph RAG with LangChain and Neo4j
Build a knowledge graph from raw text, ask natural-language questions over it, and beat vector RAG on multi-hop queries.
4h
08
Vectorless RAG with Hierarchical Document Trees
Skip the vector database. Navigate document trees with an LLM agent and get cited answers.
3h
09
Advanced RAG Course: Build Text to SQL Agentic AI System
Build production agentic AI systems, from architecture to deployment.
7h
10
Structured data extraction with vision LLMs and Pydantic
Extract structured data from images with vision LLMs and Pydantic validation.
3h
11
Image-to-image generation with FLUX and provider pattern
Build an image-to-image API with FLUX and the provider pattern.
3h
12
Building voice AI agents with LiveKit and Deepgram
Build a real-time voice AI agent with LiveKit, Deepgram, and tool calling.
4h
13
Real-time phone agents with FastRTC
Ship a real-time phone voice agent over WebRTC with FastRTC, Whisper, and swappable TTS.
4h
14
Building MCP servers for GitHub PR review
Build an MCP server that reviews GitHub pull requests end to end.
3h
15
Full-stack agentic AI with Next.js and LangGraph
Ship a multi-step AI agent in one Next.js app with streaming tools and memory.
5h
16
Learn to Build your own Coding Agent (Claude Code)
Reverse-engineer how Claude Code works. Then build your own production AI coding agent from scratch.
14h
17
LLM Observability with Arize Phoenix
Emit JSON logs with request IDs and OpenTelemetry spans across every tool call so you can click a trace and see exactly what your agent did.
4h
18
Agent evaluation techniques
Stop shipping agents you cannot defend. Learn the eval patterns LangSmith-backed teams actually use.
7h
19
Production agentic systems with Langfuse
Turn a notebook agent into a service you would be happy to wake up to at 3am.
8h
20
Layered production AI architecture
Architect an agent as seven composable layers with per-request traces.
5h
21
Deploying AI applications with FastAPI and Docker
Production FastAPI patterns for AI apps: SSE, jobs, CORS, probes, logs, Docker, graceful shutdown.
4h
22
Enterprise RAG infrastructure with Kubernetes and Ray
Ship a RAG service that survives real production traffic on Kubernetes.
5h
Who it's for
Is this for you?
Mid-level AI engineers
who want to cross into senior without faking system design
Backend engineers
who already ship prod systems and want to go deep on AI architecture
ML engineers moving to AI engineering
who need to master LLM-era production patterns
What you'll earn
Ship it, earn it.
Production AI Builder
Ship systems that survive real traffic
System Design Fluent
Defend every AI architecture choice
Career Accelerator
Complete the accelerator
Pricing
Pick the path that fits.
Self-paced forever, or mentor-led when you want live feedback.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from the AI Bootcamp?
The AI Bootcamp takes software engineers into their first AI systems. This accelerator assumes you already ship AI prototypes and teaches the harder problems: evaluation harnesses, cost controls, reliability under load, agent guardrails, and architecting systems you can defend in senior interviews.
Who is this program for?
Mid-level engineers who already ship AI features and want to reach senior or staff AI engineer without hand-waving through system design. You should have built at least one AI system in production or staging.
What kind of systems do I actually build?
Production RAG with evals, an agent system with guardrails and cost control, a voice agent on a real phone number, a vision pipeline for structured extraction, and an observability stack. Every project ships with a written architectural tradeoff.
Will this help me in senior AI interviews?
That is the whole point. Each phase ends with you being able to walk into an interview with a real system you built and a written justification for architecture choices. No more vibes-based answers.
How much time do I need per week?
10 to 12 hours per week. The accelerator is designed for engineers who already have backend instincts and want to bolt on senior AI engineering patterns.
Pick your next step.
Ship a portfolio of production AI systems and defend every design choice in senior AI interviews.