Mastering AI Agents and MCP: Build Enterprise Agentic Apps

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4 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

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

Previously at

Hugging Face
Databricks
O'Reilly Media
ABN AMRO
ING

Course overview

Design and build AI Agents for the enterprise

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.

Who is this course for

01

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

02

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

03

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

What you’ll get out of this course

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.

This course includes

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.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Aug 8—Aug 10

    Agentic AI Fundamentals & MCP Introduction

    • Aug

      8

      Live Session: Week 1

      Fri 8/85:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
    4 more items

Week 2

Aug 11—Aug 17

    Aug

    12

    Optional: Office Hours

    Tue 8/125:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Aug

    14

    Optional: Guest Lecture 1

    Thu 8/145:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Expanding Agent Capabilities & Security

    • Aug

      15

      Live Session: Week 2

      Fri 8/155:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
    4 more items

Week 3

Aug 18—Aug 24

    Aug

    19

    Optional: Office Hours

    Tue 8/195:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Evaluation, Observability & Real-World Readiness

    • Aug

      22

      Live Session: Week 3

      Fri 8/225:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
    4 more items

Week 4

Aug 25—Aug 29

    Production Deployment & Project Showcase

    • Aug

      29

      Live Session: Week 4

      Fri 8/295:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
    4 more items

Meet your instructor

Rafael Pierre

Rafael Pierre

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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Join an upcoming cohort

Mastering AI Agents and MCP: Build Enterprise Agentic Apps

Cohort 1

$750

Dates

Aug 8—29, 2025

Payment Deadline

July 27, 2025

Cohort 2

$750

Dates

Oct 3—24, 2025

Payment Deadline

Oct 2, 2025
Get reimbursed

Course schedule

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

Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

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

Frequently Asked Questions

A pattern of wavy dots

Join an upcoming cohort

Mastering AI Agents and MCP: Build Enterprise Agentic Apps

Cohort 1

$750

Dates

Aug 8—29, 2025

Payment Deadline

July 27, 2025

Cohort 2

$750

Dates

Oct 3—24, 2025

Payment Deadline

Oct 2, 2025
Get reimbursed

$750

4 Weeks