Agentic AI Engineering Bootcamp and Certificate: Early Bird Discounted

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

PhD in ML | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Manu Jayawardana

Exited AI Founder | Founder, TAI Labs

This course is popular

23 people enrolled last week.

Early Bird Discount ends in 24 hours, then the price jumps back to $999!

We revamp the syllabus every two weeks, so you're always covering the latest in AI development, from loop engineering to graph engineering.

We're the highest-rated AI engineering bootcamp, and most recently the fastest-growing.

Our teaching philosophy is simple: you learn by building. With coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, anyone can become a builder, and therefore an AI Engineer.

What you'll master and build:

  • Production-grade AI endpoints with guardrails

  • Embeddings, vector databases, and RAG

  • Agentic loops, multi-agent architectures, MCP, and A2A

  • AI evals using the TRACE framework

  • Agent memory: long-term, short-term, and skills

Our students come from MAANG companies, and some have landed roles at MAANG straight after finishing the bootcamp.

Want to see how we teach first? Watch our free recorded mini-series, Think Like an AI Engineer.

A limited number of need-based scholarships are available for applicants facing real financial hardship. See if you qualify.

What you’ll learn

Build with the LLM APIs, RAG, LangGraph, MCP, A2A, evals, and agent memory, using Claude Code and Cursor, across 4 hands-on weeks.

  • Build a live LLM service with structured outputs, guardrails, and validation you can rely on

  • Control cost and latency with token economics and the right model for the job

  • Use context engineering to tie prompting, cost, and quality into one decision

  • Implement embeddings, vector search, chunking, and reranking on your own data

  • Measure retrieval quality and fix it, instead of eyeballing the output

  • Know when RAG is the wrong answer and reach for the right tool instead

  • Write the agent loop by hand, tool calling and structured output, before any framework

  • Orchestrate multi-agent systems with LangGraph, explicit state and routing

  • Connect agents with MCP and A2A, the standards for tools and agent-to-agent

  • Capture traces and do real error analysis, the step most people skip

  • Build code assertions and a validated LLM-as-judge, gated in CI

  • Evaluate agents on their trajectory, not just the final answer

  • Move from retrieval to real memory, graph and vector hybrid with GBrain, with consolidation

  • Build agents that accumulate reusable skills instead of starting from scratch

  • Deploy a persistent, always-on agent connected to WhatsApp or Slack

  • Build one capstone across five weekly increments, evaluated and deployed

  • Publish a demo and a GitHub repo recruiters can actually open

  • Walk into an AI engineering interview able to defend every decision

Learn directly from Aki & Manu

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

AI Founder | Educator | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Google
Meta
Amazon Web Services
OpenAI
NVIDIA
Manu Jayawardana

Manu Jayawardana

AI Advisor | Founder, TAI Labs

Previous Students from
OpenAI
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
NVIDIA
Google
McKinsey & Company
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Who this course is for

  • The engineer moving into AI. Software, data, or ML. You want to build LLM systems and agents in production, not just talk about them.

  • The PM who wants to really understand AI. Done nodding along. Grasp RAG, agents, and evals deeply enough to lead and challenge a build.

  • The career mover. Targeting AI engineering or FDE roles. You need shipped systems and real understanding, not another certificate.

Prerequisites

  • Curiosity and a drive to build

    The one thing you really need. If you want to understand how AI systems work and build real ones, you are ready to start.

  • Some code, or willingness to pick it up

    You do not need to be a strong coder. We build with coding agents, so you skill up as you build. Comfort with basic logic helps.

  • A coding agent to build with

    We use Claude Code and Cursor. They let you write and understand real code fast, even when it is new to you. Setup is covered in pre-course.

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Dr. Aki Wijesundara & Manu Jayawardana in a real-time, interactive format.

Live build sessions

Five live sessions across four weeks: four hands-on Friday engineering sessions where you build and deploy AI systems with Aki and Manu, plus a Thursday Evals masterclass in week four. Every session ends with something working and pushed to your repo.

Free bonus: Think Like an AI Engineer

Lifetime access to Akis 10-part Think Like an AI Engineer mini course, included free. The fastest way to lock in the mental models, how LLMs work, prompting, model choice, context, and evals, before the bootcamp goes deep on building.

Evals masterclass

Taught around TRACE, the error-analysis method teams at the major labs use. Go deep into the tooling and learn to prove your AI system is actually good, not just good-looking.

A 2-week build sprint and live Demo Day

After the four teaching weeks, a two-week sprint with build-support sessions, ending in a live Demo Day where you ship your capstone and present it alongside the full cohort. The deadline that gets you to a finished portfolio piece.

Lifetime access

Revisit every lesson, recording, notebook, and code repository whenever you need. Your access does not expire, and you can rejoin a future cohort to refresh the material as tools change.

Community of peers

Join a cohort of engineers, data scientists, and builders. Stay accountable, swap solutions, and build alongside people targeting the same roles.

6+ office hour Q&As

Open office hours across the cohort for code review, debugging help, and personalized feedback on your build, plus dedicated build-support sessions during the sprint.

Every notebook, repo, and template, yours forever

Keep every notebook, agent template, and deployment script from the course. Reuse them on your own projects, clients, or products without starting from scratch.

Certificate of completion

Earn the Agentic AI Engineering certificate to share with employers and add to LinkedIn. The real proof, though, is the portfolio of deployed systems you leave with.

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee, Mavens satisfaction guarantee, so you are covered if the course is not the right fit early on.

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Course syllabus

12 live sessions • 45 lessons • 5 projects

Week 1

Aug 21—Aug 23

    Aug

    21

    Orientation

    Fri 8/217:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)

    Week 1: Foundations

    9 items

Week 2

Aug 24—Aug 30

    Aug

    28

    Week 1 Live: Foundations

    Fri 8/283:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)

    Week 2: RAG and Embeddings

    9 items

Free resources

Schedule

Live sessions

2 hrs / week

Five sessions across four weeks. Four hands-on Friday engineering sessions where you build AI systems with Aki and Manu, agents, RAG, and memory, with live debugging and direct feedback. Plus a Thursday Evals masterclass in week four. You leave each session with something working and pushed to your repo.

    • Fri, Aug 21

      7:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)

    • Fri, Aug 28

      3:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)

    • Tue, Sep 1

      9:00 PM—9:45 PM (UTC)

Projects

2 hrs / week

About 2 hours a week. Five mini-projects that each ship a real, demonstrable build and ladder into one capstone, so the work compounds across the course instead of piling up as disconnected exercises.

Async content

2 hrs / week

About 1 hour a week. Short structured lessons and marked Deep Dive modules that reinforce each week, from agent patterns to advanced retrieval, to review at your own pace before the live build.

Testimonials

  • The AI training approach is outstanding. Our team learned to build practical AI solutions that we could implement immediately in our educational platform. The hands-on methodology made complex AI concepts accessible to our entire development team.
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    Kavi T.

    CEO of Tilli Kids / Stanford PhD
  • Not only are the instructors experts in their field, they're incredibly skilled at breaking down complicated AI concepts so students can grasp them quickly. Anyone interested in building foundational AI knowledge should take this training - it's worth the investment.
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    Dr. Elizabeth Creighton

    Founder & Principal at Brazen
  • The instructors help break down AI model development and clearly have plenty of experience to help others learn about complex concepts like infrastructure setup. The practical approach to NLP and LLM applications was exactly what our team needed.
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    Alissa Valentine

    NLP & LLM Real World Data Scientist
  • I sent my team through this training for upskilling, and the results have been remarkable. Within weeks, they became much more efficient at building automations and deploying AI agents at work. This program bridges the gap between theory and practice and it’s had a real impact on our productivity.
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    Aamir Faaiz

    CEO of Bayseian

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