4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Go from local prototypes to production-ready Agentic AI applications following security, evaluation, and deployment best practices
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Go from local prototypes to production-ready Agentic AI applications following security, evaluation, and deployment best practices
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Course overview
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 Projects
Most 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 Development
From 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 Sessions
Still 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 & Expert Workshops
Learn directly from the people shaping the future of AI. This cohort features guest lectures and workshops with experts from Microsoft and Weights & Biases, bringing you what's newest in AI Agent features for developing, evaluating and deploying AI Agents.
💸 USD 300 in Azure Credits for Early Joiners
To accelerate your cloud deployment journey, first participants will receive $300 in Azure credits, enabling you to experiment, test, and deploy your agentic applications in a real-world environment at no extra cost.
🚀 Capstone Project: From Idea to Production
You’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 & 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 requirement for this course is basic Python knowledge.
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.
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Software Engineers who want to build and ship Agentic AI Apps into production
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Product Managers, Product Owners and Managers who want to lead AI initiatives
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Consultants, Solution Architects and Field Engineers who want to learn about AI Agents and MCP to better serve their customers
Start Building AI Agents with MCP from Day One
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.
Avoid PoC Hell
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
Master and Implement AI Agent Evaluation
Evaluating AI Agents can be overwhelming. We will show you what to evaluate, how to do it and what to do with these metrics.
Understand where AI Agents and MCP shine, and use this knowledge to design and build unique AI products
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.
AgentOps: Apply AI security and observability best practices
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.
Deploy your AI Agent Into Production and showcase it your skills
Set up cloud resources, add authentication, deploy tracing and guardrails, release your app’s code and share your live project with the world
Personalized Guidance
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.
7 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
13 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
3 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Mastering AI Agents and MCP: Build Enterprise Agentic Apps
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Live Session: Week 2
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Live Session: Week 3
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Live Session: Week 4
ML Engineer with 17+ years experience - ex-Hugging Face, Databricks
Rafael is an AI expert with deep experience helping companies - from Fortune 500s to startups - architect, fine-tune, and deploy Large Language Models and Generative AI solutions.
With a background spanning software engineering, cloud computing, data & AI engineering, and solution architecture, he brings a full-stack, hands-on approach to building production-ready AI systems that follow best practices in MLOps and LLMOps.
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$750
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Cohort 2
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4-6 hours per week
Fridays
10 AM PST | 2 PM EST | 7 PM CET
Recorded videos, live lessons, office hours and hands-on projects
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
Join an upcoming cohort
Cohort 1
$750
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Cohort 2
$750
Dates
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$750
4 Weeks