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Stop building basic chatbots.
Employers don't care about chatbots or certifications. Neither shows that you know how to design AI and ML systems, put a model into production, measure it and keep it running. That is what I've found 100+ AI companies are really looking for, and it's what every free roadmap and project I've made for you here is built around.
- Basic RAG chatbot from a tutorial
- An agent that calls one API
- Three cloud certificates
- A notebook that trains a model
- Basic AI workflow, unreliable system
- Evals that block a bad release
- Monitoring and alerts in production
- Managing NVIDIA GPU infrastructure
- AI cost per request you can explain
- Designing production-grade AI systems

I'm Hamid.
- 18Finished school. No degree.
- 193 DevOps Engineer offers.
- 20Senior DevOps Engineer and Kubernetes Expert (Kubestronaut Award: The first 33 in the UK).
- 21Lead AI Platform Engineer - LLMOps & Agentic AI.
- 223 AI & MLOps Engineering offers at 3 AI startups, in the UAE
Now I teach engineers how to run AI in production, so they can future-proof their careers and land $100k to $200k+ roles in AI and MLOps. Everything here comes from what real AI teams ask for in roles and interviews.
If you want me to teach you the skills to qualify for these roles, message me here:
Message meIt's too late, everyone is doing AI.
Everyone is talking about AI. Very few engineers can show they have run it in production, and that is the gap employers are hiring for.
I'm not a maths or ML person.
Most of these roles are engineering roles. Teams need people who can deploy, scale and monitor models, not invent new ones.
I'm too busy after work.
Every project here is sized for a weekend or two evenings. One project done properly beats ten tutorials started.
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