You finished the basics — now break the ceiling. This advanced masterclass is for graduates ready to stop writing prompts and start engineering AI systems. Master advanced reasoning (self-consistency, tree-of-thought, chain-of-verification), hallucination control and grounding, reliable JSON, agents and tool use, RAG, meta-prompting, and the skill almost nobody has: rigorous evaluation, so you can prove your systems work. 41 lessons and a real capstone. Stop using AI. Start engineering it.

You write good code. But can you sit across from a customer, find the real problem, build a solution in days, and demo it so they say "when can we have this"? That's the Forward Deployed Engineer skill almost no SDE has. Part 1 rewires how you work: 8 modules, 32 lessons on the FDE mindset, discovery, rapid prototyping, messy-data wrangling, demo craft, and your first live deployment. No client experience needed. Finish with a full simulated engagement you can show off.

You proved value with a prototype. Now own the whole thing. Part 2 takes you from deployed engineer to the technical voice a customer trusts over their own vendors: 9 modules, 36 lessons on production deployments, complex integrations, durable data pipelines, field architecture, enterprise politics, account growth, and clean handoff at multi-account scale. Built for engineers past Part 1. Finish with a full enterprise engagement you defend live, as if the customer were there.

You already own the hardest half — systems, data, integration, debugging under pressure. This foundations track builds the other half. Across ten interactive modules you'll learn to run a discovery conversation, reframe what a client really needs, ship a working prototype in days, demo it credibly, and judge when AI adds value or is theatre. Includes per-module knowledge checks, a gated certification exam, and a certificate. Built for backend engineers going customer-facing for the first time.

Part 1 built the foundations. This advanced track makes you dangerous at senior level. Across ten interactive modules you'll master complex integrations, deployment inside client constraints, production AI with RAG and agents, leading engagements, stakeholder command, and landing the role — ending in a full simulated enterprise capstone. Includes scenario-based decision drills, a gated certification exam, and a certificate. For engineers ready to own an engagement end to end.

You already build with LLMs, RAG, and agents. This course teaches the other half of the job — the field skills that get you hired as a Forward Deployed Engineer. No AI re-teaching, just the delta: read customers, scope the thin slice, ship honest POCs in days, and demo value that lands. 6 modules, 30 lessons, one capstone that produces a recorded build for your portfolio. Turn your AI depth into the rare, complete FDE profile companies fight to hire and run your first engagement end to end.

You can run one engagement now run enterprise ones. Part 2 is the advanced field playbook: deploy AI inside locked-down enterprises, architect under real cost, latency, and security limits, and cross the POC-to-production valley that kills most projects. Navigate the customer org, run the hard scope and "no" conversations, report ROI to executives, and land senior FDE roles. 7 modules, 36 lessons. Go from running the loop to owning the account and level up to Lead and Staff FDE.

Break into Forward Deployed Engineering from a data science background. This course closes the two gaps that get DS candidates rejected: production engineering and customer-facing skill. Escape the notebook and learn Git, tests, APIs, Docker, live deployment, messy-data handling, discovery, scoping, and demoing. 8 modules, 36 lessons, and a capstone where you scope, build and deploy a real solution end to end — then package it as the portfolio piece and case study that land the FDE role.

Go from QA to one of tech's highest-paid roles. This program turns manual, automation, and SDET testers into Forward Deployed Engineers. Build real skills Python, SQL, APIs, cloud, Docker, system design, and AI/LLMs then run the full FDE motion: discovery, specs, integrations, deployment, and incidents. Includes 3 deployed capstone projects, full interview prep, and a complete resume, LinkedIn, and job-search transformation. Your tester mindset is the head start. Let's build it.

Become a Forward Deployed Accountant the finance pro who embeds in a business, wires up an AI-augmented accounting stack, and turns messy ledgers into clean books and answers. This foundations course takes you from 'I do accounting' to 'I deploy AI accounting systems' across 5 modules and 18 hands-on lessons. Build three reusable AI workflows categorization, reconciliation, reporting with guardrails so you never ship an unreviewed number. Ends with a portfolio, offer, and next steps.

Go from capable to deployable. Part 2 turns your foundations into a real client-delivery and advisory practice across 5 phases, 13 lab-driven lessons, and a full capstone. Build automated data pipelines, an end-to-end AI month-end close, dashboards, and forecasts wrapped in professional controls and an audit trail. Then master the deployment playbook, value-based pricing, and advisory positioning. Finish by deploying a complete AI accounting system for a client as your portfolio piece.

Transition from Data Engineer to Forward Deployed Engineer. This course reframes your data skills as an unfair advantage, then closes the four gaps that matter: customer-facing communication, full-stack breadth, rapid prototyping, and AI/LLM fluency (including RAG). Across 6 modules and 30 lessons you'll learn the role, ship a first end-to-end prototype, and leave with a 30-day plan to land the job. Includes 60 field-checks, 6 assessments, and a certification exam with a printable certificate.

Go beyond your first deployment. Part 2 takes working FDEs into complex, production-grade enterprise engagements: running discovery workshops, architecting under real security and compliance constraints, shipping resilient pipelines and production RAG, building agentic systems and MCP integrations, deploying across AWS, GCP and Azure, and mastering stakeholders, adoption and ROI. 6 modules, 30 lessons, 60 field-checks, 6 assessments and a 26-question mastery exam with a printable certificate.

The complete, hands-on path to Customer Engineering the technical role behind every modern software sale. Master discovery, demos, proofs of concept, solution architecture, objection handling, and the full pre-sales motion across 13 modules and a real-deal capstone. Interactive lessons, scored Field Tests, and a final certification exam. Whether you're an engineer going customer-facing, an SE levelling up, or switching careers, finish hire-ready with a certificate to prove it.

There's a new role becoming one of the hottest jobs in tech and almost no one is talking about the creative version yet. Forward Deployed Creatives are embedded with top brands and agencies to pioneer AI production, and companies like Luma, FLORA, and Adobe are hiring (up to $150K–$200K). This beginner course is your foundation: what the role is, why it exists, where FDCs work, the mindset it takes, an honest intro to the AI craft, and a transition roadmap for your background. Part 1 of 3.

Understanding the role got you here now become one. Part 2 is the hands-on, intermediate course where you build real craft with AI creative tools, produce professional deliverables clients can ship, and assemble a portfolio that gets you hired. Master creative control, consistency, and finishing. Run client pilots, handle objections, measure impact, and learn evangelism. Finish with a capstone that proves you can do the work. A doing course you produce real work. (Part 2 of 3.)

You understand the role and you've built the craft now become exceptional and get hired. Part 3 is the advanced, premium capstone of the FDC track. Operate at the frontier: lead engagements, own 0-to-1 work, handle hard situations, exercise expert judgment. Shape the product with your field insights. Then land the role who's hiring, decoding job descriptions, winning the interview, negotiating $150K–$200K, transitioning in, your first 30 days. Plus an executable launch plan. (Part 3 of 3)

Become a Forward Deployed Engineer — 2026's hottest, highest-paid engineering role — starting from absolute zero. No degree or coding background needed. This 100-day daily planner takes complete beginners through Python, SQL, APIs, cloud, and AI engineering (RAG + agents), plus the customer and decomposition skills FDE interviews actually test. One lesson a day, seven real portfolio projects, and a flagship capstone. Finish job-ready. Just show up for 100 days — consistency is the whole game.

Go from "I can build a project" to working like a professional engineer. This interactive course covers Git and modern software workflow end to end: commits and snapshots, branching, merging, remotes, pull requests and code review, rewriting history safely, recovering from any mistake, team branching strategies, semantic versioning and CI/CD. Thirteen modules, sixty-five lessons, inline knowledge checks and graded assessments, a hands-on capstone and a printable certificate.

Take one product from repository to a live, monitored, operated production service. Master environments, secrets, builds, CI/CD, blue-green and canary releases, zero-downtime migrations, rollbacks, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, SLOs, error budgets and incident command. 120 lessons, 24 gated modules, 4 scenario labs, drill mode and a 30-question certification exam with a printable certificate. Built around Kestrel Books, a running case study you deploy, break and recover.