Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp for Full-Stack Developers

Hamza Farooq

Founder | Ex-Google | Prof UCLA & UMN

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Build full-stack AI products, from MVP to deployment

Forward Deployed Engineer is the new moat in AI, and this course teaches exactly that: four classes, four real-world products, all built end to end.

No demos, no toy examples, actual deployments.

Plenty of engineers can call an LLM API.

Plenty can build a React frontend or a Node.js backend. Far fewer can take an AI idea all the way to a shipped product, from the code in the browser down to the model running on their own servers.

That's the gap this track closes. You won't wrap an API in a chat box and call it a product. You'll merge the three layers most courses keep apart: a React frontend, a Node.js backend, and an AI backend running your own model, with the caching and deployment that keep it fast and up.

That control is the whole point. It's how you cut latency and cost, keep your data in-house, and build what an API never will. So we cover both sides, the software engineering and the AI

Note: This is an experiential learning program, not a lecture based course, the live sessions are focused on problem identification and solution architecting.

🚨 Please read pre-requisites before registering.

Optional: Take the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations, through our partner program

What you’ll learn

How to build and ship a complete AI product yourself: frontend, agent logic, a model you host, caching, and deployment.

  • Wire a React frontend, a Node.js backend, and an AI backend into one seamless product, not three disconnected pieces.

  • Move data cleanly from the browser to your agent and back, with state, streaming, and error handling that hold up.

  • Own the full request path, so you can debug any layer when something breaks in production.

  • Stand up your own model with vLLM on RunPod, or route through OpenRouter, and call it from your backend like any other service.

  • Swap models and providers without rewriting your app, so you control cost, latency, and data.

  • Keep inference fast and affordable as traffic and usage grow.

  • Build retrieval that actually reasons, not a single vector lookup bolted onto a prompt.

  • Add semantic caching and knowledge graphs for hybrid memory that stays fast and grounded.

  • Scale your pipeline to potentially millions of documents without it falling over.

  • Add Llama Guard guardrails so unsafe input and output never reach your users or your logs.

  • Evaluate both trajectory and outcome, so you know whether a change actually helped.

  • Catch regressions before they ship, with an evaluation suite you can trust.

  • Add tracing and dashboards so you can see every step an agent takes in production.

  • Track latency, cost, and quality per request, and find the bottleneck fast.

  • Turn silent failures into signals you can actually act on.

  • Split your product into independent services (app, inference, retrieval, workers) that each scale on their own.

  • Coordinate multiple agents and outside systems with MCP and A2A so multi-step workflows stay reliable under load.

  • Take a project from an empty repo to a live, deployed product that handles real traffic, not a demo.

Learn directly from Hamza

Hamza Farooq

Hamza Farooq

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

Worked at:
Google
Walmart
Gallup
UCLA
University of Minnesota
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Who this course is for

  • Senior frontend and full-stack engineers going AI-native. Strong in React, Node, and Python, who learn by building, not watching.

  • ML engineers who get stuck shipping. Can build a model, but want the frontend, caching, and deployment skills

  • Founding and early-stage engineers. Own everything, and need to ship a real AI product on infrastructure they control.

Prerequisites

  • Python, GitHub, Claude Code

    Being comfortable with Python code and GitHub is essential to build full stack products. You must have a Claude Code subscription.

  • Willing to learn or familiar with full-stack development (Node.js/React)

    Familiarity with MERN stack helps you build complete AI applications with both backend logic and frontend interfaces.

  • At least one Docker-based deployment experience

    Ensures you understand packaging and deploying applications in a consistent, production-ready environment.

What's included

Hamza Farooq

Live sessions

Learn directly from Hamza Farooq in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCA-F) Certification Exam

Earn a credential that validates your real world Claude development skills.

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Course syllabus

4 live sessions • 7 lessons • 5 projects

Week 1

Jul 6—Jul 12

    Jul

    9

    Session 1

    Thu 7/94:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    Module 01 — Ship Your First Full-Stack AI Product

    1 item

    Slide Deck

    1 item

    GitHub Repo

    1 item

    Project 1: Chrome Extension That Beats Google Translate

    1 item

    Getting Started with Claude Code

    4 items

    Getting Started with System Design

    1 item

Week 2

Jul 13—Jul 19

    Jul

    16

    Session 2

    Thu 7/164:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    Module 02 — Grounded Products with Multimodal Agentic RAG at Scale

    1 item

Schedule

Live sessions

2 hrs / week

    • Thu, Jul 9

      4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    • Thu, Jul 16

      4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    • Thu, Jul 23

      4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    • Thu, Jul 30

      4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Projects

4 hrs / week

Async content

2-4 hrs / week

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