Hamza Farooq

Hamza Farooq

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Founder | Ex-Google & Walmart Labs |Adjunct UCLA & UMN, SCU | Venture Partner

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Hamza Farooq will transform you into an AI Product Developer

Hi, I’m Hamza. I’m a founder by day and a professor by night, working at the intersection of Agents and Product Design.

I started Traversaal.ai with a simple goal: to build scalable AI products for startups and enterprises that integrate smoothly into existing systems while staying flexible and cost efficient.

We’ve had the opportunity to work with Fortune 100 companies, and the lessons from those experiences are woven directly into this course.

This course brings together everything I’ve learned in practice, along with the material I teach across universities.

I still spend a lot of time writing code, you can check out my GitHub.

I also share my thoughts and learnings on how organizations should think about moving demos to production grade scale on, The Production Gap: Substack.

Worked at:
Google
Walmart
Gallup
UCLA
University of Minnesota

Alumni reviews

Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp

This course was an incredibly rich and practical experience, packed with valuable, actionable information from start to finish. The team were highly professional and consistently helpful, and Hamza himself was generous with his time and knowledge, offering genuine support throughout the programme. The guest talks were a real highlight—insightful and genuinely inspiring, adding depth and real-world perspective to the material. Overall, I'd highly recommend this course to anyone looking to build their FDE skills, launch their own startup, or land an FDE role. It's a truly rewarding investment for your career growth.
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Mostafa

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Senior Data Engineer · Ejada Systems

Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp

Really exceeded my expectations. I did not expect to find a course so well balanced between explanation and practice. Class by class, the concepts are presented clearly and then grounded in exercises that complement the theory very well. This makes the learning experience feel progressive: each challenge gives you something concrete to understand, practice, and connect with what came before. For me, that was the most valuable part of the course. It does not feel like content you simply consume, but like a process where you build understanding as you move forward. It is truly worth it.
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Mario

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MLops Engineer · EAFIT University

Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp

I really like the hand-on approach and the look at system design that you can build AI product with a scale and production ready view including concepts of queue, containers, orchestration, etc
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Juan

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Advanced Analytics Lead · Sandoz

Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp

This is the MOST hands-on / learning-by-doing Maven experience I've taken. It connects concepts around the forward deployed engineer, using a clear framework and amazing real-world examples. The learning is dense, so be ready to drink from the firehose! That said, Hamza is a skilled teacher and explains everything from the ground up. Each session was highly engaged, with participants staying over to keep the discussion going. Thank you, Hamza, for your generosity in time, patience, and expertise!
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Jorge

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VP Product · Relevate Health

Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp

Amazing Course

Krishanu

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AI Engineer · Informa