AI Engineering Boot Camp Starting on July 7th, 2025

Master all the most important technical AI engineering concepts like RAG, Graph RAG, prompt engineering and more!

Zach Wilson

Taught by Zach Wilson

Founder at DataExpert.io

What you'll learn

Lifetime access to content
Join a referral network
Join a highly motivated community
Build a capstone project to land a job
5 Guest Speaker Sessions from industry experts

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Zach Wilson

Zach Wilson

Founder at DataExpert.io

I have led teams of data engineers and software engineers at Airbnb, Facebook, and Netflix. My next goal is to upskill as many data knowledge workers as I can!

Course syllabus

81 lessons • 50+ hours of content • 7 assignments

Prompt Engineering
1
Day 1 Lecture: Prompt Engineering Theory
2
Day 1 Lab: Auto Prompt Optimization with dspy
3
Day 2 Lecture: Optimizing Dev Workflows with Cursor and Windsurf
4
Day 2 Lab: Vibe Coding Full Stack application in 45 minutes
5
Supplemental Session on Auto-prompt Optimization
Understanding RAG
1
Day 1 Lecture: RAG Fundamentals and types of RAG
2
Day 1 Lab: Vectorizing Inputs into Milvus
3
Day 2 Lecture: RAG Tradeoffs
4
Day 2 Lab: Integrating RAG into your full stack app
Advanced RAG and Agentic AI
1
Day 1 Lecture: Graph RAG vs Vector RAG
2
Day 1 Lab: Building Graph RAG in production
3
Day 2 Lecture: Types of Agents (reflection, plan-and-execute, rewoo)
4
Day 2 Lab: Enhancing RAG with Agentic AI
MLOps
1
Day 1 Lecture: Trusting your workflows (evaluation metrics and guardrails)
2
Day 1 Lab: Setting up CI/CD for an AI application
3
Day 2 Lecture: Understanding LLM Reasoning traceability
4
Day 2 Lab: Tracing LLM reasoning with LangChain + LangSmith
5
Supplemental lab session on GuardrailsAI
Building end-to-end AI Application
1
Day 1 Lecture: Leveraging MCP and tools to integrate effectively
2
Day 1 Lab: Using MCP to build more powerful agents
3
Day 2 Lecture: How to link your AI agent to value
4
Day 2 Lab: Building an asynchronous vs synchronous agent
Tech Talks July 2025
1
Tech Talk - Li
2
Tech Talk - Conor
3
Tech Talk - Vikram
4
Tech Talk - Ryan
5
Tech Talk - Chip
Q&A with Zach July 2025
1
Q&A with Zach Week 1
2
Q&A with Zach Week 2
3
Q&A with Zach Week 3
4
Q&A with Zach Week 4
5
Q&A with Zach Week 5
TA Office hours
1
TA Office Hour 1
2
TA Office Hour 2
3
TA Office Hour 3
4
TA Office Hour 4
5
TA Office Hour 5
6
TA Office Hour 6
7
TA Office Hour 7
8
TA Office Hour 8
Career Dev Sessions
1
Career Dev Session 2
2
Test Lesson
3
Career Dev Session 4
Book Club
1
Book Club 1
2
Book Club 2
3
Book Club 3
4
Book Club 4

Also included

IncludedFullStackExpert.io All-access Subscription
34 lessons

Fullstack Bootcamp Orientation

1Full Stack Bootcamp Orientation

Boot camp Kickoff

1Lesson 1

Web Dev Fundamentals

1Introduction to IDEs
2Structure of a Program
3Intro to HTML & CSS
4HTML & CSS LAB
5Intro to Javascript
6Advanced JavaScript Concepts
7Javascript lab part 2

Intermediate Frontend Development

1Introduction to ReactJS
2Advanced ReactJS and Tailwind

Fundamentals of Backend Development

1Introduction to databases and relational SQL
2Data Modeling and intro to backend

Intermediate Backend Development

1Intro to NodeJS & Express and event driven programming
2Connecting the database to the service

Advanced Backend Development

1Authentication and Advanced techniques
2Lab 1
3Event driven microservices
4Monitoring, scaling, experimenting
5week-5-Lab 2

Advanced Frontend Development

1Nextjs Introduction
2Week 6 lab part 1
3Advanced NextJS Features
4Week 6 lab part 2
5Docker Vercel and Optimization

Office Hours

1Unit Testing
2Integration Testing
3E2E Testing

Q&A with Dan

1Intro to CI/CD
2Intro to System Design
3Introduction to Containers
4Intro to Infrastructure as Code

Soft Skills

1Joining a new team
2Communicating Ideas and Getting Alignment

Before you join

Prerequisites

One year of Python And SQL Knowledge

Platform Access Included

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