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Advance Your Career Through AI Engineering

Hosted by Hamza Farooq

Wed, Nov 12, 2025

5:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

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Agent Engineering Bootcamp: Developers Edition
Hamza Farooq
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What you'll learn

Understand the AI Engineer Landscape

Gain clarity on what AI Engineers actually do — the core skills, tools, and domains that define the role.

Identify Your Pathway to Transition

Learn how to map your existing skills to AI engineering roles and discover realistic steps to pivot or grow within.

Explore Real-World AI Applications

See how AI engineers build real products — from LLMs to intelligent systems — and understand the emerging areas.

Why this topic matters

AI is redefining how modern engineering teams build, deploy, and scale products. For Software Engineers, it’s an opportunity to move beyond traditional pipelines into intelligent systems. For Data Scientists, it’s a path to bring models into production and deliver measurable impact. And for Engineering Managers, understanding AI engineering is key to leading teams

You'll learn from

Hamza Farooq

Founder & Adjunct Professor | 15+ years | Google | UCLA

I am the founder of Traversaal.ai, an LLM-based startup dedicated to building scalable, customizable, and cost-efficient AI solutions for enterprises. My work focuses on practical, production-ready AI—far from the flashy, overhyped demos that fail in real-world environments.

With over 15 years of experience in machine learning, my career has spanned three continents and seven countries, working across industries like tech, telecommunications, finance, and retail. As a former Senior Research Manager at Google and Walmart Labs, I have led teams specializing in optimization, NLP, recommender systems, and time series forecasting.

Currently, I serve as an adjunct professor at Stanford and UCLA, where I bridge the gap between academic research and real-world AI applications. My passion lies in educating the next generation of AI practitioners and enabling organizations to build enterprise-grade AI solutions that are scalable and efficient.

Previously taught professionals from:

Google
Netflix
Amazon
Novartis
Airbnb

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