Workshops where everyone builds.
Ninety-minute to full-day sessions where every participant leaves with something running: a retrieval-augmented chat over their own documents, a small fine-tuned model, or an AI feature deployed behind a real API.
- Format
- 90 minutes to a full day
- Group
- 30 to 60 students, CS or AI batches
- Prerequisites
- Basic Python and a laptop
- Where
- On campus or remote
The workshops
Each one is the condensed version of something I built for production.
- 01
Build a RAG app
Chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, re-ranking and citations, on the participants' own documents. Ends with a deployed chat that declines when it should.
- 02
Fine-tune a small LLM
LoRA and QLoRA with Transformers, PEFT and TRL on a free GPU, with a base-versus-tuned comparison so the result is judged, not assumed.
- 03
Ship an AI feature end to end
FastAPI, Next.js, a vector store, Docker and a deploy, with logging and a fallback provider. The workshop version of how I shipped five apps.
- 04
Hackathon sprint clinic
Scoping, judging criteria, a demo that lands, and the mistakes that cost teams the prize. Run before a fest's hackathon.
How a day runs
Built so that nobody is left watching.
- 01
Set up and a short map
Thirty minutes: environment running, the system drawn on the board, the goal for the day stated.
- 02
Build in blocks
Each block is a working checkpoint. Participants who finish early get the next challenge, not a wait.
- 03
Ship and show
The last hour deploys what was built and lets teams demo. The code stays with them.
Travel, stay and fees
Stated plainly, so a request can be made with confidence.
For campus sessions the inviting institution covers the visit end to end: travel (a First AC train ticket up to five hours, a flight beyond that), stay, meals, and pickup and drop. The honorarium and any workshop fee are agreed on WhatsApp or on the call.
Full details on the invite page and in the FAQ.
Give your students a day of building.
Pick a date; the format, group size and terms are confirmed on WhatsApp within a day.