Emmanuel Paraskakis

Hands-On MCP: From API to Live MCP Server in Minutes

Salesforce

FedEx

Bloomberg

Reuters

Fiserv

API PM Executive | 15+ Years, VP-Level Experience

Instantly transform your existing APIs into MCP servers—no coding needed.

Generate an MCP server from your OpenAPI

Quickly validate your MCP integrations with live AI-agent tests on Claude.

Test your MCP tools locally on Claude

Easily publish your MCP server publicly, expanding your API’s reach.

Deploy to an MCP Registry to make it available to the world!

We'll take your questions and talk about where to learn more about MCP and securing your MCP servers.

Plan for Next Steps

The AI Collective is a non-profit, grassroots community exploring the frontier of AI. (We'll use Roam, not Zoom)

Session sponsored by AI Collective

ANNOUNCEMENT: As of 9th AugustOur Saturday batch is SOLD OUT, and the Wednesday batch starting 13th August is left with final 2 seats.- Enroll with code "WEDNESDAY" to get $500 BONUS: Busy in August? Enroll in August Cohort &amp; October Cohort is FREE for you Questions?Meet our team here - https://calendly.com/team_maheshyadav/ Feeling Lost in the AI Wave?You're great at what you do, but not confident navigating the AI shift and its implications on product development and building. - Struggling to Translate AI Concepts Into Product Thinking?You hear terms like LLMs, agents, and embeddings, but you’re not sure how to turn them into features or user value. - You Know Product—But Not AI Tools.You don’t have hands-on experience with GenAI tools like lovable, Vo.dev, LangChain, RAG, or OpenAI APIs that hiring teams now expect. - No Portfolio That Shows You “Think AI.”You lack real-world AI case studies or projects to demonstrate your ability to build with and for AI. - You Want a Role That Excites You Again.You’re craving deeper impact, technical challenge, and the next chapter of your career. - Overwhelmed by AI Hype, Unsure Where to Start.There’s too much noise in the AI space—you're looking for a structured, guided approach that actually delivers and helps you identify AI opportunities, create a roadmap, set evaluations, and GTM. - Not Confident in Leading Technical Conversations.You’re struggling to collaborate with engineers on AI-first products or ask the right questions in meetings. - Your Current PM Role Feels Stagnant.You're looking for growth, but your current role doesn’t offer a clear path into GenAI leadership. - Difficulties in cracking AI PM Interviews?You’re applying for AI PM roles but keep getting stuck at the CV review or technical rounds. What You’ll Achieve with this Agentic AI PM Program with MAANG leader (Learning+Application+Interview Prep: All At One Place) - Build Real AI Product Intuition – Learn to translate AI capabilities into user-centric features. - Hands-on AI Labs &amp; Tools – Using various AI tools like V0.dev, lovable, Langflow, Langchain, OpenAI agents, Microsoft Co-pilot studio, Vertex.ai, and more, with or without needing to code, - Craft a GenAI Portfolio – Complete real case studies and projects to showcase your AI skills by building&nbsp;MAANG level AI PRD. - Crack AI PM Interviews with Confidence – Proven frameworks, mock interviews, and personalized feedback. Learn Directly from Mahesh Yadav – Ex-Product Lead at Google, Meta, AWS &amp; Microsoft, with 20+ years of experience. Join a Network of 4000+ AI PMs – Weekly syncs, expert sessions, and lifetime support. Join Mahesh on a weekly FREE session in the community to stay updated on the latest. &nbsp;What’s Included (Total Value: $4500+):✅ Full GenAI Cohort Experience (Starts Aug 9)✅ 3-Week AI PM Interview Prep Bootcamp ($1500)✅ 1:1 Career Mentorship with Mahesh Yadav (Worth $1000)📌 Our June Cohort was sold out in days, and only August &amp; October cohorts remain for 2025.This is your final chance to join the most practical, hands-on AI PM program at the current price. 📞 Have questions?Meet our team here https://calendly.com/team_maheshyadav/And we’ll walk you through everything. We’re are consistently recognized as one of Maven’s top courses and being the only 5-star rated courses in AI.We're the only AI PM certification course that genuinely helps and tracks your success even after cohort completion.We are really proud of 27% of our cohort members that have successfully transitioned into AI PM roles. We achieve these results through:- 50+ written lessons- 10+ live workshops (beyond recorded content)- 20+ live AMA sessions directly with Mahesh- Continued support during interviews and continuous learning via weekly sessions after cohort Non-technical PMs are fully supported and encouraged to dive in—we provide extensive support hours to help. Our mission is to make this the only AI course you'll need in 2025 (period). To ensure this, we've added hands-on learning labs and strong technical support that empowers everyone—no coding or technical background required. Here, we will empower you to confidently identify , create, eval and launch production-ready agents using GCP Vertex AI, Langflow, Crew AI, Azure Evaluators SDK, and Azure Co-pilot Studio. We are offering two timings to accommodate your busy schedules.Wednesdays at 5:30 PM PSTSaturdays at 9:00 AM PST Know your instructor Mahesh Yadav is your mentor and guide to success in AI product management. With over 20 years of experience and 10+ years building AI-powered products at Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft. Mahesh has 9 patents as primary innovator in AI training and Power management. He has presented at premier conferences such as Nvidia GTC, Microsoft Build, and AWS re-Invent. Mahesh brings firsthand insights from advising fast-growing AI startups and collaborating with senior leaders at Google, Meta, and Amazon, giving you an inside look at what truly drives AI innovation in top tech giants and AI startups in bay area. Deep Expertise: Mahesh led the expansion of PyTorch into PyTorch Distribution and contributed to Meta’s first GPT3-scale training model (OPT) in 2019. His work spans key AI technologies including recommendation systems , PyTorch, Agents for AWS Bedrock, and multi-agent for GCP. Practical Insights: His teaching uses real project examples to deliver actionable strategies you can implement immediately. He is teachng for past 15 years at Microsoft he taught as TEALS instructor for 3 years, then he tought AI courses internally for fun at Meta and MSFT. For the last 3 years, he has taught 10k+ across Free and Paid channels.&nbsp; Impact he left: Over 3000 professionals have upskilled through his courses, many now holding roles at top AI companies Ace AI PM Interviewsk&nbsp;Internally or ExternallyThis isn't just a course, it’s your career catalyst.Whether you're aiming for an internal transition or preparing for external AI PM interviews, you’ll gain the exact frameworks and confidence needed to stand out in any interview room.We don't stop at theory. We simulate real-world product challenges, review your interview answers, and walk you through how hiring managers at Google, Meta, and top AI startups actually evaluate candidates.And unlike most cohorts that wrap up after 3-4 live sessions, we guarantee more value than you pay for:20+ live sessions with Mahesh during the cohort and countless more on advanced trending topics even after the cohort's lifetime. You won’t just prepare for interviews, you’ll walk in already looking like an insider.

Agentic AI Cohort + AI PM Interview Prep, Together in the #1 AI PM Program

Course syllabus

Recordings will be provided in the student portal if you cannot join live.

5 Saturdays 90 mins sessions with Mahesh

You will have 5 lab sessions to build with Mahesh Teams. It is also our weekly open office hour.

Wed Lab Sessions/Optional Q&A

We want to help you to continue your learning journey even after the cohort ends. We meet weekly on my LinkedIn community. Current and previous cohort members join us to keep learning. Join us for a free event:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mahesh-ai-pm-community

Weekly Community Sessions

Course schedule

Product Managers Traditional PM looking to transition into AI Product Management. This course will help you more with GenAI.

Engineers and Designers:Ready to transition into the PM world? Learn to bridge the gap between technical implementation &amp; product strategy

Founders:If you're looking to turn ideas into MVP &amp; gain the knowledge &amp; confidence to lead your team in building Ai Products

Builders Ready to Upskill into the PM world with real toolsLearn to bridge the gap between technical implementation &amp; product strategy

Are you wondering if this course is for you ?

Your Takeaways From This Cohort

Go from beginner to confident AI Product Manager in just a few weeks. In this course, you’ll follow a hands-on, project-based approach to quickly master both the fundamentals and advanced skills needed to build production-ready AI agents that solve real problems.

Fast-Track Your AI PM Journey

Our alumni are landing promotions, pivoting into AI roles, and stepping into leadership positions at top tech companies. As part of the cohort, you’ll tap into an active network that shares referrals, job tips, and insider guidance to help you break into or level up in the AI spa

Accelerate Your Career in AI
 

If you're a founder or builder, this course is your launchpad. You’ll be equipped to take your idea and turn it into a functional AI MVP tailored to your business needs - right away.

Turn Ideas Into Real Products

You won’t just leave with skills—you’ll leave with connections. Join a community of like-minded professionals, learn from each other, and keep growing long after the course ends.

A Lifelong Community That Grows With You

Build AI powered products, Master Evals, and land your Next AI role - In guidance with MAANG leader who has been there done that many times.

Cohort 6

Mahesh Yadav

Cohort 5

If you’ve shipped an API product—or more—and you want to level up your expertise, API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs is for you. You’ll learn how to design and deliver API products that not only meet technical standards but also drive measurable business impact. We’ll go beyond the basics, digging into real strategies for building APIs that empower both developers and business stakeholders, all while solidifying your role as an API thought leader within your organization. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to speak confidently about APIs in product parlance, build robust solutions your engineering teams will appreciate, and design Developer Experiences that rival the best in the industry. My core goal is to help you sharpen your capabilities so you can set bold KPIs, exceed them, and demonstrate the ROI of your API initiatives. You’ll walk away with a practical toolkit for everything from rapid prototyping to scaling API products for high-volume use. Whether you’re perfecting an existing product, tackling a new launch, or even guiding a team of product managers, you’ll have the structure and know-how to succeed: Understand APIs at a deeper level—enough to earn the respect of peers, leadership, and technical teams• Drive business impact by setting stronger goals and hitting KPIs for your API products• Build a clear path to product growth through monetization, internal advocacy, and advanced Go To Market strategies• Deliver a stellar Developer Experience with better documentation, security, and onboarding flows• Become the API champion who can confidently guide decision-making and position APIs as a strategic advantage within your organization• Explore the future of APIs as they evolve with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent API consumption, including design and building of APIs with the help of LLMs. After 15+ years managing API products, I’ve seen firsthand how to thrive as an API PM—and I want to share what I’ve learned! When you complete this course, you’ll have the skills and perspective to deliver real value and confidently guide and scale the next generation of API portfolios. UPDATE: With this course we'll be including a full year's subscription for Lenny's Newsletter, worth $200!With it you get full access to an impressive set of AI tools such as Replit, Lovable, Bolt, n8n, Linear, Superhuman, Granola, Perplexity and more - yes that's worth more than the price of the course! Check more details about the bundle here: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/productpass ﻿Please note that this course is not endorsed by Lenny or the community and that I'm including this bundle at my cost so that students have the tools to complete course exercises and access to the wonderful Lenny's community too!

Accelerate Your Career and Become the Go-To API Expert in Your Organization

Five live sessions covering each module, with projects and group discussion.

Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays

Due the Tuesday after course completion.

Build and Demo an API Prototype Project

The session is on the Tuesday after course completion.

AMA & Demo - 1 session

Product Managers with some API PM Experience who want to take on more responsibility and become experts at shipping public and internal API

Product Managers who have shipped API Products but want to gain a deeper understanding and scale to an API Portfolio

Product Leaders who want to hire and manage a team of API Product Managers.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

<ul><li>Adopt API-first and secure executive buy-in to build an API portfolio.</li><li>Make API governance, security and compliance a part of your roadmap.</li><li>Explore how MCP &amp; Agents will drive the next wave of API consumption.</li><li>Identify how API businesses succeed by examining real-world business m</li></ul>

Define a Winning API Strategy for the Future

<ul><li>Evaluate modern API architectures (REST, GraphQL, Async, gRPC) to choose the right approach for your use case.</li><li>Craft consistent API designs using standards, OpenAPI, and style guides.</li><li>Plan for API evolution by creating a deprecation policy and implementing effective versioning.</li></ul>

Understand How Great APIs Are Made: The API Lifecycle

<ul><li>Develop a frictionless Developer Experience, from clear documentation to Dev Portals with PLG.</li><li>Optimize usage and revenue by analyzing API metrics, refining pricing models and tracking churn.</li><li>Implement clear pricing strategies—like tiered or usage-based pricing—supported by data.</li></ul>

Drive API Adoption with an Effective Go-to-Market Approach

<ul><li>Use AI tools to iterate on your API design for usability, consistency , and standards.</li><li>Gather feedback from users through documentation and mock services.</li><li>Implement your API prototype using AI codegen.</li><li>Deploy your API behind an API Gateway and view Analytics</li></ul>

Design and Build a Working API Using Best Practices

<ul><li>Demo the API Prototype you built to the class.</li><li>Group discussions where you can learn from others.</li><li>AMA session with the instructor - bring the topics you’d like to cover!</li></ul>

Network and Collaborate with your peers

Become an expert API Product Manager and learn how to scale and manage an API portfolio.

Cohort 4

Cohort 3

API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs Cohort 5

As AI agents become integral to mainstream software, organizations need professionals who can do more than build demos: they need engineers who can architect, deploy, and maintain robust agentic solutions that deliver measurable business value. Meeting this demand requires a practical mindset - one that balances innovation with real-world constraints like security, compliance, and operational cost. Familiarity with frameworks like MCP (Model Context Protocol) is increasingly essential for building scalable agents in modern enterprise environments. ✨ Biggest differentiators of this course 🏭 Enterprise-Ready, Not Just Toy ProjectsMost courses stop at building toy demos or teaching frameworks in isolation. Here, you’ll learn to architect, evaluate, and deploy AI agents that solve real business challenges-factoring in security, scalability and operational costs. You’ll master not just the “how”, but the “when” and “why” behind agentic AI, with a special focus on leveraging MCP (Model Context Protocol) for robust, scalable solutions. 🦾 Hands-On Product DevelopmentFrom day one, you’ll build a real-world agentic product, guided by step-by-step tutorials. You’ll gain practical experience that goes far beyond theory. 🤝 Personalized Support: Ask Me Anything (AMA)We know every learner’s journey is unique. That’s why we offer weekly Ask Me Anything Sessions. While these are optional, we encourage learners to join these sessions to either get help or assist colleagues. 🤜 Individual Coaching SessionsStill need help? Feel free to schedule 30 minute individual sessions with me every week. You will get direct, personalised help, making sure you never lose momentum. 👩‍🏫 Industry Guest Lectures &amp; Expert WorkshopsLearn directly from the people shaping the future of AI. This cohort features guest lectures and workshops with experts from Microsoft and Weights &amp; Biases, bringing you what's newest in AI Agent features for developing, evaluating and deploying AI Agents. 🚀 Capstone Project: From Idea to ProductionYou’ll connect the latest research and best practices with hands-on implementation. For your capstone, you’ll design, evaluate, and deploy a production-grade AI agent. You will showcase your ability to bridge the gap between theory and enterprise impact. If you read up until this point and are still wondering: "Is this course for me?" Well, if you have ever struggled with any of the following challenges: 🔹 Prototype Graveyard: You have built simple AI demos that never made it to production🔹 Evaluation Paralysis: You struggle to measure if your agents are actually performing well🔹 Security Vulnerabilities: You need to mitigate the risk that your agents are exposed to prompt injection attacks🔹 Availability &amp; Resiliency: You want to prevent agentic AI products from breaking after being deployed Then yes, this course is for you. 🚀 By the end of 4 weeks, you'll have: ✅ A production-deployed AI agent with a public URL you can share with employers✅ Working knowledge of MCP architecture and hands-on experience that sets you apart from most AI professionals✅ Real-world AI security and evaluation skills that are essential for enterprises to leverage AI at scale✅ Portfolio-ready project demonstrating end-to-end agent development capability 👩🏼‍💻 Course Requirements If you don't have significant experience with Gen AI, AI Agents or MCP, that's fine. The only hard requirements for this course are basic Python knowledge, familiarity with AI &amp; Gen AI and willingness to learn. Ready to go beyond the PoC? Join us and build AI agents that matter-powered by real-world tools, enterprise best practices, and the support you need to succeed.

Design and build AI Agents for the enterprise

This course is highly hands-on, so basic Python knowledge is required.

Basic Python knowledge

You use AI and Gen AI on a daily basis, and/or you are familiar with the main use cases surrounding it

Familiarity with AI & Gen AI

You'll code, move fast and break stuff. Need to polish your Python skills? We'll bring you up to speed 🦾

Willingness to roll up your sleeves and code

Recorded videos, live lessons, office hours and hands-on projects

Fridays

Software Engineers who want to build and ship Agentic AI Apps into production

Product Managers, Product Owners and Managers who want to lead AI initiatives

Consultants, Solution Architects and Field Engineers who want to learn about AI Agents and MCP to better serve their customers

Theory is important: you will learn foundational concepts around AI Agents and MCP, but you will also start coding and shipping Agentic AI products from the beginning.

Start Building AI Agents with MCP from Day One

You have probably come across many courses out there that basically teach you how to build a PoC. Not the case here! You will start with simple, local prototypes, evolving weekly towards a production grade Agentic AI App

Avoid PoC Hell

Evaluating AI Agents can be overwhelming. We will show you what to evaluate, how to do it and what to do with these metrics.

Master and Implement AI Agent Evaluation

Should I go for RAG? Should I implement AI Agents instead? You will deep dive into the main architecture components of MCP. what problem it solves, when it should be used, and when it shouldn't.

Understand where AI Agents and MCP shine, and use this knowledge to design and build unique AI products

Learn about the best practices around tracking LLM calls, tools and agent interactions. Master prompt injection attacks and how to mitigate them. Incorporate all these concepts in your app.

AgentOps: Apply AI security and observability best practices

Set up cloud resources, add authentication, deploy tracing and guardrails, release your app’s code and share your live project with the world

Deploy your Agentic AI App Into Production and showcase your skills

You will have access to weekly office hours to ask questions about issues - or help fellow learners. Still have questions? Feel free to book a weekly 30 min 1x1 with me.

Personalized Guidance

Go from local prototypes to production-ready Agentic AI applications following security, evaluation, and deployment best practices

August 2025 Cohort

Rafael Pierre

ML Engineer with 17+ years experience - ex-Hugging Face, Databricks

October 2025 Cohort

Like many software people, I started out as a developer before moving into product and executive leadership, but I never lost my love for the game. After years of barely coding, AI has given me the ability to build again, and it's also introduced a new concept -- agentic workflows -- which opens the door to truly intelligent software. I've been building AI workflows and writing AI code for almost 2 years now, and I can say two things with extreme confidence: 1) AI tools are going to completely change how we build software, both in terms of code and architecture, and 2) you can't learn how to do it from a book -- you need to get your hands dirty. This one-day, immersive workshop is designed for developers who want to quickly build competence with agentic coding and workflow tools. Former developers, engineering managers, technical PMs or designers, etc. are all welcome -- if you sorta know how to code or spend a lot of time close to code, you'll get a ton out of this course. I will show you how I use AI tools to code and build flows in the real world, we'll work through examples together in your own local environment, and you'll end the day having built real software with AI. No sales pitches, no bullshit -- just real stuff you can use that will get your creative juices flowing. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT Hands-On ExamplesWe'll start with a few basic concepts around autonomy and then look at a variety of tools -- from Copilot to Claude Code to Cline, and everything in between -- and I'll share real client stories of using agentic AI to build and deploy software and agent workflows with LangGraph and LangSmith. We'll also look briefly at low-code builders like Lovable, Bolt and Tempo. Then we'll learn by doing, applying those tools and techniques to real codebases (we'll cover frontend React, backend Java, and LangGraph Python workflows) in your local dev env. Curated Tools and Techniques I'll demonstrate and help you get set up, answer any and all questions in real time, and share tips and techniques that have worked for me and help you adapt them to your process. You won't write a single line of code yourself, but you'll have several working software examples by the end of the day. I've done this with large teams (see Testimonials below) and it's amazing how much you can get done when AI is in play! Rapid Progress + Community and SupportYou may wonder why this isn't a multi-day (or multi-week) course -- but the goal of this workshop is to kickstart your ability to use AI in a software context. What you do with that ability is up to you -- you can build awesome prototypes, or become a model behavior architect designing and tuning workflows (much like I'm doing today), or be a superfast full stack app builder for hire. You'll be connected with the Not Safe for LinkedIn community (this is a side project of mine -- a place to discuss the changing landscape of life and work away from prying corporate eyes!) where you can reach me and other workshop folks as your journey unfolds. I'm always available for questions and advice -- and for coaching and private workshops if needed! Enhance Your ExpertiseVibe coders aside, most people who are winning with AI are leveraging existing expertise to move faster and make better choices. Lean into what you're already good at, use AI to make it even better, and you'll have a leg up on the competition. This applies to all software roles -- product, dev, design, project mgmt, etc. Immediate, Tangible ROIUsing AI can make you faster and better - which either frees up time to do more of what you love, or increases the value you deliver per unit of time, so you can deliver more value (and hopefully get paid for it!). At worst, you'll look awesome to your boss. --- Agentic coding and workflows are going to completely change how software is built. Don't miss out -- get in the game, get good at this stuff, and build a better future for you and your teams! Please note: Private cohorts are available for teams of 50+! ﻿Please reach out to me at d@jpsj.me if you're interested in a customized version of this workshop for your engineering and/or product delivery team. We can focus on technologies native to your stack and/or agentic tools that are available in your environment (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.)

One-day hands-on AI coding workshop for developers -- from FOMO to FAFO, fast!

Make sure you have 8GB of RAM, admin mode and Homebrew or Chocolatey or similar to help you get going. Replit also works!

A development environment

Options include VSCode with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Replit, Cline, Claude Code -- free Copilot may work, but be ready to subscribe

Access to an agentic coding tool

Lapsed coders will be fine, non-coders are still more than welcome, but if you don't know what code looks like, it may be tough to keep up

You need to be comfortable looking at/working with code

We'll introduce agentic coding and workflow concepts, and show-and-tell a variety of tools, examples and best practices.

Part 1: Concepts/Demos

Break

We'll do a live workshop, hands on keyboard, where we all use AI tools to modify and run sample code exercises. You'll leave with working software examples that you can continue to modify and enhance on your own.

Part 2: Hands on Keyboard Workshop

Engineers who are already coding with AI, or who could use a push to get started, and want to be thoughtful about best practices and tooling

Product managers or designers who want to level up technically and start building prototypes or workflows without developer help

Managers and executives who want to understand what's possible with state of the art tools, and maybe even get back into the game themselves

We'll work through real examples of frontend and backend code, and use AI tools to modify it. You won't write a single line of code yourself!

You'll use AI codegen tools to build and modify real software

We'll discuss opportunities and pitfalls when using AI to build software, and ensure that you can bring this knowledge back to your teams

You'll use and understand best practices for AI coding in production environments

We'll explore tools like Lovable, Tempo, GitHub Spark and more, and understand how they can be integrated into a larger build process if your prototype(s) get the green light

You'll explore AI rapid prototypers and how to shape their output

We'll use LangGraph (one of many agent frameworks) to create workflows, run them locally and observe chain of thought and tool use. Please note: this requires an API key -- Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter all fine

You'll build and run agentic workflows, from start to finish

One day, no gimmicks, no pitches, just building real code and workflows.  You'll walk away competent and confident in building with AI

Lightning Lessons

Hands-On MCP: From API to Live MCP Server in Minutes