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Studio, not classroom

Built by practicing Data & AI engineers who’ve delivered real-world pipelines, analytics systems, and AI products. You’ll learn by doing — from foundations to deployment.

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Studio, not classroom

Built by practicing Data & AI engineers who've delivered real-world pipelines, analytics systems, and AI products. You'll learn by doing — from foundations to deployment.

R001

Concept-first, tool-agnostic

Principles before products. You'll swap vendors confidently because you understand what's underneath.

R002

Hands-on labs, end-to-end

Build and deploy real pipelines, real RAG systems, real agents — against production-scale data.

R003

Azure-first + cross-cloud

Deep Azure Synapse and AI Foundry. Every service mapped to its AWS equivalent so you stay portable.

R004

LLMs, vectors & agents

Modern AI taught as engineering, not magic — embeddings, retrieval, MCP, observability.

16WKS
Program length · 4 arcs · 16 ships
24
Seats per cohort · no passive audience
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Specialized tracks · analytics / eng / AI
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Learn from industry leaders

Courses are designed and taught by tech leaders and experienced Data & AI practitioners — senior engineers shipping the work they teach in production today. The live instructor lineup for each cohort is shared with admitted members.

R001DE
Senior Data Engineers
Lakehouse & streaming platforms at scale
Fortune 500 · Big Tech
10–15 yrs production experience
SparkDatabricksKafka
R002AI
AI / ML Practitioners
Production LLM, RAG & agent systems
Enterprise AI platforms
Shipping GenAI since 2021
AI FoundryBedrockLangGraph
R003AN
Analytics Leaders
Heads of analytics & BI in enterprise orgs
Enterprise · scale-ups
8–12 yrs decision support
SQLPower BIStatistics
R004CP
Cloud Architects
Azure-first, AWS-fluent platform design
Regulated industries
Security & governance focus
APIMKubernetesIaC
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From rows of data, rows of opportunity

See how our graduates transformed their careers and doubled their salaries. Representative outcomes; references available on interview.

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Alex T.
AI Engineer · Microsoft
Marketing Analyst · $55K
Senior Data Scientist · $125K
+127%salary increase
"The bootcamp gave me the technical skills to transition into data. The hands-on projects were invaluable."
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Maria G.
Data Engineer · Spotify
Business Analyst · $65K
Data Engineer · $135K
+108%salary increase
"The curriculum was perfectly aligned with industry needs. I landed my dream job just 2 weeks after graduation."
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James W.
Sr. Analytics Mgr · Shopify
Excel Analyst · $45K
Senior Analytics Manager · $95K
+111%salary increase
"From Excel to Python and SQL — this program completely transformed how I approach data and my career prospects."
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Questions we actually get

Q·01Who is this for?

Mid-career software engineers, data analysts, and analytics engineers who are tired of tutorial-grade work. If you can already write Python and SQL, and you've touched the cloud at least once, you'll fit.

Q·02Why Azure-first? I work on AWS.

Because Azure is where most enterprise AI contracts actually land today, and the teaching resources are more production-honest. For every Azure service, we cover the AWS equivalent — S3 Vectors, Bedrock, Bedrock Agents, Glue — and one capstone is fully AWS if you prefer.

Q·03What's the time commitment?

18 hours a week, give or take. Two live studio sessions (2 hours each), plus build time. If you can't commit to that, the program won't work for you.

Q·04Is there a job guarantee?

No. Job guarantees in bootcamps are marketing, not engineering. What we do promise: real artifacts, a defensible portfolio, introductions to working engineers, and an honest reference from someone who's seen you ship.

Q·05Can my employer pay?

Yes, and many do. We provide invoicing, W-9, and a 1-page ROI brief tailored to data platform and AI platform teams. Ask during the interview.

Q·06What if I fall behind?

Talk to me. One cohort deferment is allowed with no fee. After that, we work out a path together — but we don't pretend you finished when you didn't.

applications · C04 · open

Ready to transform your career?

Join thousands of professionals who have successfully transitioned into high-paying data careers. Cohort 04 start date: TBD — applications reviewed on a rolling basis.