Curriculum | Dinesh AI Academy
The Complete Path

19 Live Sessions. One Path, LLMs to Production.

Two independent programs, each ending in a real deployed agent. The 5-Day Bootcamp builds one working AI agent from the ground up across 3 live evening sessions plus guided practice days. The 8-Week Advanced AI Engineering Program builds and ships one production agentic app, one version further every phase. This page is both, at a glance.

🎓 Bootcamp · Days 1–5 or 📚 Advanced Program · Weeks 1–8 → 🚀 Deployed Agent
Part One · Live on Zoom, 3 Live + 2 Practice Days, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM

5-Day Bootcamp. Day by Day.

No prior AI experience needed. Each session ends with something added to one running app — the full breakdown, pricing and dates are on the Bootcamp page.

DAY 1 · MON 🔴 Live

LLM Fundamentals + Build AI App

Understand how large language models actually work through hands-on practice with OpenAI, Claude, local LLMs and core prompt engineering.

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You'll Build AI Content Generator Generates well-structured content in seconds.
DAY 2 · TUE 🟢 Practice

Assignment + Guided Lab

Apply Day 1 to your own use case with a guided assignment. Join the community lab for live troubleshooting if you get stuck — nothing new to learn, just time to lock it in.

AssignmentGuided LabCommunity Support
DAY 3 · WED 🔴 Live

RAG + Embeddings + Tools

Retrieval-Augmented Generation, embeddings and vector search to ground AI in your own documents — then connect it to real tools and live data via API calls.

LangChainVector DatabasesTool CallingAPIs
You'll Build AI Knowledge + Tools Assistant Answers from your own documents and takes real-world action.
DAY 4 · THU 🟢 Practice

Implementation Challenge

Extend Wednesday's build with a hands-on implementation challenge — solidify retrieval and tool-calling before moving on to autonomous agents.

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DAY 5 · FRI 🔴 Live

Agents + MCP + Final Build

Build a true autonomous agent with Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool access, then harden it with memory, guardrails and evaluation for your final, production-ready build.

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You'll Build Production-Ready AI Agent Plans, remembers, stays safe, and is ready for real-world use.
Live instructor-led (Monday, Wednesday & Friday) Guided practice & assignments (Tuesday & Thursday)
Part Two · Live on Zoom, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:00 AM – 7:30 AM or 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Advanced AI Engineering Program. One App, Eight Weeks.

A standalone cohort — no Bootcamp completion required. One real agentic app, shipped further every phase. For the full technical breakdown and what you'll build each week, see the Advanced AI Engineering Program page.

WK 1–2 Foundations A deployed chat app on Claude Sonnet 5 — live on AWS, hardened and tested. Ships v0.1
WK 3–4 Knowledge: Production RAG Chat grounded in your own documents, with citations, on a production vector store. Ships v0.2
WK 5 Action: Tools & Workflows Real tools and APIs, multi-step workflows built with LangGraph. Ships v0.3
WK 6 Autonomy: Agents & MCP A true agent loop — plan, act, observe — plus a custom MCP server. Ships v0.4
WK 7–8 Trust: Memory, Guardrails, Evaluation Long-term memory, guardrails, an eval harness and Langfuse tracing — production-hardened. Ships v1.0
At a Glance

Skills You Walk Away With

✦Multi-provider LLM integration
✦Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
✦Tool calling & API integrations
✦Autonomous, multi-step agents
✦MCP & agent-to-agent protocols
✦Persistent, multi-user agent memory
✦Automatic evaluation & observability
✦LLM security, guardrails & red-teaming
✦Deploying an AI agent to production
✦The AI-SDLC habit — Claude + Copilot, every phase, any future project
On Completion

A Certificate for Each Stage.

Bootcamp graduates receive a Certificate of Completion and 5 portfolio projects. Advanced AI Engineering Program graduates receive a Certificate of Completion plus one real agentic app, shipped through 5 versions to a live production deployment on AWS. Full details are on the Advanced AI Engineering Program page.

Ready to Follow a Path Yourself?

New to AI? Start with the Bootcamp. Ready to ship a real production app? Go straight to the Advanced Program.

Join the 5-Day AI Bootcamp