Junior Track · Cohort 1 · Live Zoom

The AI Infrastructure Junior Engineer Academy.

13 live 2-hour classes. One real production-shaped ML service shipped to your GitHub by Demo Day.

Cohort 1 · Founding $199 per person · limited seats · $399 for cohort 2+

Sept 10 – Dec 10, 2026 Thursdays · 7:30–9:30 PM Eastern No class Thanksgiving week Live Zoom · recordings included

Each week, one production layer goes on the service.

You build the same ML service all cohort long, adding one production layer per class. Thursdays, 2 hours live. Here's what each week covers.

Branches, rebase, PR hygiene — plus the shell commands that buy 80% of the leverage.

uv, FastAPI skeleton, pytest. Code shape that survives review, not notebook patterns.

The real model goes in. Loading, versioning, contract design, failure modes.

Multi-stage builds, layer-cache discipline, GHCR. ML images shouldn't be 4 GB.

Pods, Deployments, Services, HPA. The mental model — not the certification.

GitHub Actions. PR runs tests, main builds and pushes. OIDC over PATs.

Prometheus, Grafana, RED metrics — and the drift signals traditional APM misses.

Structured logs, correlation IDs, OTel tracing. One ID threaded end-to-end.

Postgres, indexes, EXPLAIN, transactions, connection pooling.

Airflow DAG that retrains weekly. MLflow tracking. Idempotency patterns.

Terraform for ECR + EKS + RDS. IAM the way it's actually written. Cost levers.

Trace one request through every layer. Capstone PR opens. What the role really looks like.

vLLM, batching, cost economics — then the cohort presents their capstones. Graduation.

No class Nov 26 (Thanksgiving). Recordings posted within 24 hours if you miss a week.

Apply for Cohort 1

The cohort is capped at ~30 seats. I read every application personally. You'll hear back within 3 business days with the payment link if accepted.

Your name

Where you are now (one sentence)

Why this cohort?

Minimum requirements

Comfortable writing Python (no prior ML experience needed).
A laptop with 8 GB+ RAM and ~30 GB free disk — macOS, Linux, or Windows + WSL.
About 4 hours per week for 13 weeks (2-hour live class + ~2 hrs homework).
Willing to use AWS free tier for the AWS class (~$10–20 if you don't tear down promptly).

I meet these minimum requirements, and I understand that without them I'm likely to fall behind the cohort.

No marketing emails. One reply with the payment link if accepted; one decline email if not. That's it.