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Applied AI Engineering

Taking a machine learning system into production: data pipelines, serving infrastructure, evaluation, and what happens after the launch.

This programme sits inside Technology, one of the four study areas in the wider Programmes catalogue.

  • AAI
  • Diploma
  • Kendahouse, Nairobi
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What the training covers.

Every session runs as a workshop, not a lecture. You practise the routines of the job until they are second nature, with instructors who have done them for a living.

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  • 01 Data pipelines: ingestion, validation, versioning, and the messy reality of the input
  • 02 Feature stores, and the difference between training time and serving time data
  • 03 Serving a model behind an API: latency, cost, batching, and caching
  • 04 Evaluation beyond accuracy: what to measure and what that misses
  • 05 Monitoring drift, feedback loops, and the slow failure nobody alerts on
  • 06 Experimentation and rollback: shipping a model change you can undo
  • 07 Documentation and handover so the next engineer keeps it running

Programme facts

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Dates, fees, and instalment options are confirmed with admissions. Nothing is quoted until you ask, and applications close four weeks before each intake starts.

The work it prepares you for.

The training aims at front-line roles like these across the industry.

  • Machine learning engineer
  • Data engineer building the pipeline around a model
  • ML ops or model reliability engineer
  • Backend engineer owning model serving

Who it suits.

Developers with working Python who want the production path. Take Data Science with Python first if the modelling is newer than the engineering.

Pair it with a language

Pairs with Cloud and DevOps Engineering: the deployment and monitoring work is the same discipline applied to a model.

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Other technology routes.

Start your application

Full programmes go through the Student Applicant form. Short programmes and online-only study enrol in the LMS.

Questions by phone: +254 714 772 289

Questions about Applied AI Engineering? Call +254 714 772 289 or message admissions.