AI Engineering Boot Camp starting October 20th, 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 highly motivated community
An in-depth capstone project
5 industry-leading guest speakers
Join a referral network

Learn directly from the experts

Zach Wilson

Zach Wilson

Founder at DataExpert.io

Course syllabus

50 live sessions • 50 videos

Week 0: Application Setup
1
AI Application Setup
Week 1: Prompt Engineering + Basic RAG
1
Prompt Engineering Day 1 Lecture
2
Prompt Engineering Day1 Lab
3
Prompt Engineering + Basic RAG Day 2 Lecture
4
Prompt Engineering + Basic RAG Day 2 Lab
Week 2: RAG optimizations + Reranking
1
RAG optimisation + Reranking Day 1 Lecture
2
RAG optimisation + Reranking Day 1 Lab
3
RAG optimisation + Reranking Day 2 Lecture
4
RAG optimisation + Reranking Day 2 Lab
Week 3: MCP and Agentic AI
1
MCP and Agentic AI Day 1 Lecture
2
MCP and Agentic AI Day 1 Lab
3
MCP and Agentic AI Day 2 Lecture
4
MCP and Agentic AI Day 2 Lab
Week 4: MLOPs and Guardrails
1
MLOPs and Guardrails Day 1 Lecture
2
MLOPs and Guardrails Day 1 Lab
3
MLOPs and Guardrails Day 2 Lecture
4
MLOPs and Guardrails Day 2 Lab
Week 5: End-to-End AI Applications
1
End-to-End AI Applications Day 1 Lecture
2
End-to-End AI Applications Day 1 Lab
3
End-to-End AI Applications Day 2 Lecture
4
End-to-End AI Applications Day 2 Lab
Tech Talks
1
Tech Talk with Xinran Waibel
2
Tech Talk - 2
3
Tech Talk with Ryan
4
Tech Talk with Carly
5
Tech Talk with Li
Q&A with Zach
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
2
TA Office Hour 1
3
TA Office Hour 2
4
TA Office Hour 3
5
TA Office Hour 4
6
TA Office Hour 5
7
TA Office Hour 6
8
TA Office Hour 7
9
TA Office Hour 8
Career Dev Sessions
1
Career Dev Session 1 - Win with soft skills!
2
Career Dev Session 2 - LinkedIn like a Pro!
3
Career Dev Session 3
4
Career Dev Session 4
5
Career Dev Session 5
Book Club
1
Book Club 1
2
Book Club 2
3
Book Club 3
4
Book Club 4
5
Book Club 5

Also included

IncludedLinkedIn Mastery Course
6 lessons

LinkedIn Masterclass

1Your story matters and how to tell it by Stephanie Nuesi
2Build community, not content by Zach Wilson
3Monetizing Part 3: Products & Funnels by Zach Wilson
4Monetizing Part 1: Brands & Coaching by Stephanie Nuesi
5Monetizing Part 2: Sponsorship by Carly Taylor
6How to write non-boring content by Carly Taylor
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
IncludedAI Engineering Boot Camp Starting on July 7th, 2025
47 lessons

Prompt Engineering

1Day 1 Lecture: Prompt Engineering Theory
2Day 1 Lab: Auto Prompt Optimization with dspy
3Day 2 Lecture: Optimizing Dev Workflows with Cursor and Windsurf
4Day 2 Lab: Vibe Coding Full Stack application in 45 minutes
5Supplemental Session on Auto-prompt Optimization

Understanding RAG

1Day 1 Lecture: RAG Fundamentals and types of RAG
2Day 1 Lab: Vectorizing Inputs into Milvus
3Day 2 Lecture: RAG Tradeoffs
4Day 2 Lab: Integrating RAG into your full stack app

Advanced RAG and Agentic AI

1Day 1 Lecture: Graph RAG vs Vector RAG
2Day 1 Lab: Building Graph RAG in production
3Day 2 Lecture: Types of Agents (reflection, plan-and-execute, rewoo)
4Day 2 Lab: Enhancing RAG with Agentic AI

MLOps

1Day 1 Lecture: Trusting your workflows (evaluation metrics and guardrails)
2Day 1 Lab: Setting up CI/CD for an AI application
3Day 2 Lecture: Understanding LLM Reasoning traceability
4Day 2 Lab: Tracing LLM reasoning with LangChain + LangSmith
5Supplemental lab session on GuardrailsAI

Building end-to-end AI Application

1Day 1 Lecture: Leveraging MCP and tools to integrate effectively
2Day 1 Lab: Using MCP to build more powerful agents
3Day 2 Lecture: How to link your AI agent to value
4Day 2 Lab: Building an asynchronous vs synchronous agent

Tech Talks July 2025

1Tech Talk - Li
2Tech Talk - Conor
3Tech Talk - Vikram
4Tech Talk - Ryan
5Tech Talk - Chip

Q&A with Zach July 2025

1Q&A with Zach Week 1
2Q&A with Zach Week 2
3Q&A with Zach Week 3
4Q&A with Zach Week 4
5Q&A with Zach Week 5

TA Office hours

1TA Office Hour 1
2TA Office Hour 2
3TA Office Hour 3
4TA Office Hour 4
5TA Office Hour 5
6TA Office Hour 6
7TA Office Hour 7
8TA Office Hour 8

Career Dev Sessions

1Career Dev Session 2
2Test Lesson
3Career Dev Session 4

Book Club

1Book Club 1
2Book Club 2
3Book Club 3
4Book Club 4

Program Resources

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Weekly schedule

Before you join

Prerequisites

Intermediate-level Python skills

Platform Access Included

DiscordDiscord
GitHubGitHub
OpenAIOpenAI

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