Edversity · 2026 cohort
Forward Deployed Engineer Training Program
A 12-week, full-time program that takes you from Python basics to shipping AI-powered tools for real users.
Shah Hassan
Lead instructor · Engineering Lead at Edversity.
- Length
- 12 weeks
- Commitment
- 40 hrs/week
- Format
- Live sessions + async work
- Cohort
- 30 students
Contents
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Everything you need before week 1.
Welcome
How the program runs, what to install, and the ground rules for using AI tools.
Phase 1 · Foundations
Python, how the web works, and storing data.
Week 1
Python and your developer toolkit
Terminal, Git and GitHub, editors, and the Python you need to write small, useful scripts.
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Week 2
Python for real work
Functions, modules, files, JSON, virtual environments and handling errors gracefully.
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Week 3
How the web works
HTTP, URLs, status codes and JSON APIs, and calling them from Python.
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Week 4
Databases and SQL
Modelling data, writing SQL, and reading and writing SQLite from Python.
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Phase 2 · Building
APIs, LLM-powered applications and automation.
Week 5
Building web APIs
Design and build a small HTTP API with FastAPI, with validation and clear errors.
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Week 6
Calling LLM APIs
Send requests to a large language model, get structured output back, and handle real-world failures.
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Week 7
Retrieval and grounding
Give a model the right context: chunking, embeddings, retrieval and checking answers.
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Week 8
Automation and agents
Scheduled jobs, tool use and integrations, plus the guardrails that keep automation safe.
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Phase 3 · Delivering
Deployment, working with real users, and your capstone.
Week 9
Shipping to production
Containers, environment configuration, secrets and deploying to a cloud platform.
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Week 10
Reliability and observability
Logging, evaluations, cost tracking and knowing when something breaks.
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Week 11
Working with customers
Discovery, scoping, demos and documentation: the forward deployed half of the job.
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Week 12
Capstone sprint and demo day
Finish, polish and present your capstone project.
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Capstone project
Brief, scope rules, proposal template, checkpoints, demo day format and grading rubric.
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Wrap-up
Resources
Curated links grouped by topic.
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Conclusion
Where to go from here.
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