Hi, I am George Zoto, an experienced AI Product Leader, Engineer, and Educator dedicated to helping product teams bridge the gap between "working AI demos" and robust, enterprise-grade AI production. Alongside Dr. Marily Nika and Diego Granados, I coach Product Managers and leaders on how to strip the guesswork out of AI development using rigorous evaluation frameworks.

As the founder and organizer of Deep Learning Adventures—a community of thousands of AI enthusiasts, engineers, and data scientists—I have spent years breaking down highly complex AI concepts, NLP workflows, and agentic systems into actionable, real-world playbooks. My unique intersection of deep engineering literacy and product strategy ensures you won’t just learn abstract theory; you’ll learn exactly how to set defensible ship/no-ship gates that survive the wild.

Why I Teach This Course

Building user-facing GenAI is entirely different from building traditional software. In a non-deterministic world, teams often rely on 'vibe-based' testing or generic model benchmarks that have zero alignment with actual business success or compliance standards. I teach our AI Evals for PMs Certification to put the control back into the hands of Product Managers. My goal is to equip you with the practical metrics, evaluation workflows, and leadership confidence you need to ship AI products that are safe, reliable, and high-ROI.

What You’ll Get From Learning With Me

• The No-Vibe Playbook: Move past developer intuition. You'll learn how to map complex user value and strict industry constraints directly into repeatable eval metrics.
• Engineering Empathy & Alignment: Speak the exact language of your ML and engineering teams so you can co-create lightweight, high-impact golden sets without getting bogged down in the code.
• Executive-Ready Frameworks: Gain the confidence to defend your shipping thresholds to legal, compliance, and leadership teams—especially critical in public-facing or regulated industries.
• Hands-on, Case-Driven Mastery: We skip the generic slides. You will get your hands dirty evaluating a real-world AI product alongside a cohort of top-tier global peers.

Credentials & Core Expertise

• Co-Instructor, AI Evals for PMs Certification on Maven (Trusted by product leaders from top-tier tech firms).
• Founder & Lead Facilitator, Deep Learning Adventures: Built a premier community of 3,000+ members exploring advanced ML, TensorFlow, CV, NLP, and Agentic AI workflows.
• Industry Insights Tracker: Actively distilling state-of-the-art developments from global AI frontiers (including Andrew Ng’s AI Dev, A2A Summit, and next-gen Agentic reasoning loops) into product strategy.
• Cross-Functional Expert: Specializing in LLM & AI Agent evaluations, performance trade-offs (cost/latency vs. capability), and safety/UX friction reduction.

Looking to fully master these new in demand skills and playbook?  This lightning lesson is a preview of the AI Evals for PMs Certification, starting June 01. Secure your spot for the upcoming cohort here: https://maven.com/aiproducthub/genai-evals-certification