Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp

Hamza Farooq

Founder | Ex-Google | Prof UCLA & UMN

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The #1 FDE Bootcamp: Build & Deploy Production-Ready AI Systems

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Forward Deployed Engineering is the new moat in AI. Learn to ship!

7 live sessions (incl. specialization) · 10 office hours · 4 projects · 1 demo day · 14+ learning hours

Many engineers can call an LLM API. Few can ship an AI product end to end, from browser to their own model.

That's the gap this bootcamp closes. Own your full stack to cut latency and cost, keep data in-house, and build beyond what an API can offer, with Trust & Safety built in. Master both software engineering and AI, and lead with authority in front of customers and CXOs.

⛏️ What You'll Build

⚡Agent Harness

⚡ Agentic Multimodal RAG with Search

⚡Multi-Agent Systems

⚡ Observability & Evals

⚡Capstone Project

✅ What You'll Get: Live sessions with Hamza Farooq · Lifetime access to recordings · Community of peers · Certificate of completion

🎁 Exclusive Bonus: FREE access to our Specialization Track for this cohort, a 3-hour live, hands-on workshop on Real-Time Voice Agents

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What you’ll learn

Master Advanced Techniques for Building, Optimizing, and Deploying End-to-End Agentic RAG Systems and Multi-Agent Workflows

  • Engineer ReAct agents with structured tracing, decision auditing, memory, and termination control.

  • Implement perceive-think-act loops, planning agents, reflection, and tool-use architectures.

  • Build a production-grade agent harness and unpack what makes Claude Code powerful beyond the model.

  • Serve production LLMs with predictable latency, lower cost, and benchmarks you can defend.

  • Master GPTQ, GGUF, QLoRA, AWQ, prefill, decode, KV caching, and speculative decoding.

  • Measure TTFT, inter-token latency, throughput, and the economics of each deployment choice.

  • 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.

  • Design multi-agent systems with clear topology, communication protocols, and operational judgment.

  • Implement orchestrator-worker, hierarchical, debate, and handoff workflows for real use cases.

  • Connect agents with MCP and A2A, and evaluate when single-agent systems are the better choice.

  • Ship agent systems with measurable quality, layered safety, and production-ready eval loops.

  • Implement Llama Guard, NeMo Guardrails, validation, and prompt-injection defenses.

  • Build trajectory-based evals with golden tasks, partial-credit grading, and LLM-as-judge scoring.

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

  • Wire a React frontend, Node.js backend, and AI backend into one seamless product.

  • 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

  • Full-stack, Software and ML engineers going AI-native. Embed with customers to build and deploy AI products that actually get adopted.

  • Product Managers and Builders who bridge multiple stakeholders. Turn customer problems into AI solutions and explain trade-offs to them.

  • Founders who own the customer conversations. Uncover real problems, scope AI solutions, and get their team and investors on board.

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.

Specialization Track: Voice Agents

Free access to a dedicated 3-hour workshop on Voice Agents

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Course syllabus

11 live sessions • 50 lessons • 4 projects

Live sessions

2 hrs / week

Projects

4 hrs / week

Async content

2-4 hrs / week

Week 1

Nov 14—Nov 15

    Module 0: Welcome to the World of FDEs

    5 items

    Nov

    14

    Session 1 : The Agent Loop - ReAct, Architectures, Harness and System Design

    Sat 11/1412:00 PM—2:00 PM (EST)

Week 2

Nov 16—Nov 22

    Nov

    17

    Optional: Office Hours

    Tue 11/1712:00 PM—1:00 PM (EST)
    Optional

    Nov

    21

    Session 2: Subagents, and Multi-Agent Systems & Product Architecture

    Sat 11/2112:00 PM—2:00 PM (EST)

    Claude Code: Introduction & Setup

    6 items

    Module 1 : Agent Loop, Harness & System Design

    3 items

    Project 1 : LUMINA :- Build a Perplexity Style AI Search

    1 item

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