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Team Lead / Senior Software Developer 

Mohtsham Majeed

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

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

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

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

The skills you need to succeed as an AI Forward Deployed Engineer in production environments.

Owner/CEO, AI Makerspace

AI Makerspace

AI Fund

FourthBrain

University of Dayton

Dr. Greg Loughnane, Ph.D.

Building industry-leading AI training for engineers and teams since 2021

Author, LLMs in Production

Matthew Sharp

Matt Sharp is a seasoned leader and professor in AI, MLOps and Engineering. 

Information Systems Engineer at Adobe

Tyler Laughlin

A background in BI, data science, machine learning, and cloud-native apps.

The Forward-Deployed Engineer: The AI FDE Certification

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<p class="p2-tall">I'm most excited to take the evaluation and deployment discipline from this course and apply it beyond the capstone. My next project is a generic four-stage agentic pipeline built with LangGraph, with swappable LLMs per stage via OpenRouter, Postgres checkpointing for state and audit trail, and a Next.js "control tower" dashboard for live monitoring and human-in-the-loop intervention. The course gave me the orchestration patterns and eval mindset to build that properly instead of hacking something together.</p>
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