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Build and deploy agentic apps in production from day one with Azure, OpenAI Agents SDK, Docker, FastAPI and Phoenix Arize.
Class is in session
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Build and deploy agentic apps in production from day one with Azure, OpenAI Agents SDK, Docker, FastAPI and Phoenix Arize.
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Course overview
Most courses stop at building toy notebooks. 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 software engineering, observability and scalability best practices.
Production-Ready, Not Just Toy Projects
Starting on the first day of this course, this is what you will work on:
✅ Building agentic apps with OpenAI Agents SDK
✅ Building observability pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Phoenix Arize to track what your agents are doing and understand why
✅ Containerizing and deploying your agentic application using Docker and FastAPI
✅ Implementing robust guardrails, so that responses from your agents are relevant and not prone to hallucination or prompt injection attacks
✨ Biggest differentiators of this course
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
Free OpenAI Credits
Get USD 400 in free GPT 4.1 credits as soon as you enroll into this course
Individual Coaching Sessions
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 industry experts, bringing you what's newest in AI Agent features for developing, evaluating and deploying AI Agents.
Capstone Project: From Idea to Production
You’ll connect 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.
Is this course for me?
👉🏻 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.
🚀 What you will have built by the end of this course
✅ An end-to-end multiagent RAG system with clear agent scopes, tool calls and guardrails
✅ A production-deployed AI agent with a public URL you can share with employers
✅ Comprehensive observability pipelines to keep track of your agent's metrics and availability
✅ Portfolio-ready project demonstrating end-to-end agent development capability
🚀 Tools you will use
🦾 OpenAI Agents SDK for robust multiagent application development and orchestration
⚡️ Redis for lightning fast agentic memory implementation
📊 Phoenix Arize for end-to-end agent observability and evaluation
⚙️ Github Actions for seamless CICD pipeline orchestration
🐳 Docker for containerization and reproducible development
✨ FastAPI for rapid Python backend development
🟢 Who this course is for
1. Software Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and Data Scientists
You have solid experience with data pipelines and classical ML problems. You’re ready to integrate large language models into agent architectures, build workflows using tool integrations, memory management, and task planning for practical AI systems.
2. Product Managers and AI Strategists
You translate business objectives into technical solutions. You want to understand how to define AI agent functionalities from product requirements, establish meaningful success metrics, and effectively collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable, user-centric agent applications.
3. Tech Leads and Backend Developers
You oversee complex systems involving multiple AI agents and services. You seek to master best practices for orchestrating, monitoring, and scaling agent workflows that run reliably in production environments.
🔴 Who this course is not for
1. Absolute Beginners in Programming or Software Development
This course assumes proficiency in Python and coding fundamentals. If you’re new to programming, start with foundational development courses before progressing here.
2. People looking for research heavy content
This practical course leverages pre-built language models and focuses on implementation, not on transformer internals, model training, or research heavy topics.
3. No-Code or Low-Code Developers
This program is code-centric, involving APIs and orchestration through programming libraries. If you prefer drag-and-drop or visual tools, this course may be more technical than expected
💸 Course Value vs Investment
Total Value: $3200 vs Investment: $1000
🔷 Live and on-demand training to help you design, build and deploy real AI Agent Apps
($1000 value)
🔷 Personalized support via Slack plus weekly 1x1 sessions (30 min x 4)
($800 value)
🔷 Free OpenAI Credits
($400 value)
🔷 Complimentary Access to All Future Cohorts
($1000 value)
Student Testimonials
🚀 "I truly appreciate our trainer Rafael. He has outstanding experience in AI, and I’m really glad to have him as my mentor. I’ve learned so much from his training sessions and the 1:1 online guidance. He clarified my doubts and explained how to build robust agentic AI systems with best practices something you normally don’t get from other courses. I’m definitely going to enroll in the upcoming programs. I highly recommend this program to anyone who wants to gain broader and deeper knowledge in AI."
🚀 "Glad to be in the first cohort! Agents development, functional tasks, openai SDK, evaluation techniques, observability and much much more. Thank you Rafa!"
🚀 "Got good understanding on how to build agentic apps. Best part of this course is the observability platform."
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, MLEs, and Data Scientists who want to build agentic apps using function calling, short term memory and observability
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POs and PMs who want to dive deep into Agentic System architecture to deliver user-centric agentic apps in collaboration with engineers
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Consultants, Solution Architects and Field Engineers who want to learn what it takes to successfully run agentic apps in production
This course is highly hands-on, so basic Python knowledge is required.
You use AI and Gen AI on a daily basis, and/or you are familiar with the main use cases surrounding it
No notebook demos! You'll code, move fast and break stuff.
Build an AI Agent on Day One
Theory is important: you will learn foundational concepts around AI Agents, but you will also start coding and shipping Agentic AI products from the first day.
Personalized Guidance
You will have access to a private Slack workspace where you can ask questions to me - or to fellow students. Want to chat, code together or brainstorm? Feel free to book a weekly 30 min 1x1 with me.
Free GPT Credits
You will get USD 400 in free OpenAI GPT 4.1 credits to build your agents. These credits are yours to use even after you finish the course.
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 Agentic RAG shines, and use this knowledge to design and build unique AI products
Should I go for vanilla RAG? Should I implement Agentic RAG instead? You will deep dive into the main use cases for Agentic RAG, 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 Agentic AI App Into Production and showcase 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
Guest Lectures from Industry Experts
You will learn from some of the best engineers and product professionals in the industry. In previous cohorts, we had guest speakers from Microsoft, LlamaIndex and Replit - stay tuned for the full speaker lineup for this cohort!
Live sessions
Learn directly from Rafael Pierre in a real-time, interactive format.
Free OpenAI Credits
USD 400 in GPT 4.1 credits that you can use for building and evaluating your agents
Guest lectures from experts in the field
Build with the latest & greatest insights from experts from Microsoft and Weights & Biases
Personal coaching with 1x1 sessions
Personalised help to make sure you don't get stuck
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
5 live sessions • 49 lessons • 3 projects
Vinayak Talikot
Umamaheswara Pragada
AI 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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