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Founder

Matteo Bozzo

Engineers and engineering leaders who build, deploy, and scale software systems.

Applying AI tools and techniques to professional workflows — assign alongside more specific AI topics.

Building autonomous AI agent systems that take actions, use tools, and orchestrate multi-step workflows.

Building technical literacy — understanding APIs, databases, system architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.

Designing scalable, reliable software systems — architecture patterns, distributed systems, and technical tradeoffs.

Measuring and evaluating AI model performance, quality, and reliability for production use cases.

Operating and deploying large language models in production — fine-tuning, inference, monitoring, and cost optimization.

Building retrieval-augmented generation and search systems — vector databases, embeddings, ranking, and retrieval pipelines.

How to build and ship a complete AI product yourself: frontend, agent logic, a model you host, caching, and deployment.

Founder | Ex-Google | Prof UCLA & UMN

Google

Walmart

Gallup

UCLA

University of Minnesota

Hamza Farooq

Founder | Ex-Google & Walmart Labs |Adjunct UCLA & UMN, SCU | Venture Partner

Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp

Founder | Ex-Google & Walmart Labs 

<h3>Why I enrolled</h3>
<p class="p2-tall">Learn about the fundamentals surrounding the full stack of an application, to be able to better work with my engineers and also be able to guide Claude better for the application I want to build without engineers support.</p>
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    <h3>A breakthrough moment</h3><p class="p2-tall">I did not realize how it was possible to handle a full stack close to what my engineering team is doing, with the right setup you provided.</p>

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<h3>What I’ll apply</h3>
<p class="p2-tall"> Can’t wait to find the time to start building a full stack app on an idea that I have been cooking for a while. At same time to work directly on projects on two companiea where I am an investor, with a forward deployment approach. Goal is for me to get application in prod to 80%, with engineer bringing it to 100%z</p>
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