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Engineering the practice of building AI systems

Three courses covering Python data engineering, transformer architecture, and capstone system design — for practitioners who want to work through the material rather than consume it.

+60 3 7876 4192 [email protected] KL Gateway, Kuala Lumpur
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Courses

Each course is a standalone unit with a defined syllabus, weekly sessions, assignment review, and a written record of what was completed.

Python and Data Engineering course
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Python & Data Engineering for AI Work

Ten weeks. Vectorised numerical code, memory profiling, columnar formats, reproducible environments, dataset versioning, and pipelines that fail loudly. Written for analysts and backend developers moving into model work.

  • Nine assignments with written code review
  • Dataset audit on real Malaysian open data
  • Environment reproducibility check on every submission
  • 6–8 hours per week expected
RM 550
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Transformer architectures course
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Transformer Architectures & Language Model Training

Eighteen weeks. Attention, tokenisation, positional schemes, pretraining objectives, supervised fine-tuning, and evaluation — implemented from the paper, not from a wrapper. Suited to engineers comfortable with PyTorch and calculus notation.

  • Shared cluster access throughout
  • From-scratch transformer trained on a public corpus
  • Weekly paper-reading sessions
  • 12–15 hours per week expected
RM 2,120
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AI systems engineering capstone
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AI Systems Engineering Capstone Track

Twenty-six weeks. Retrieval, serving, evaluation, monitoring, cost control, and error analysis. For practitioners who already train models and need the surrounding system to hold up under load. 15–20 hours per week expected.

  • Dedicated technical mentor throughout
  • Fortnightly architecture reviews
  • Written incident post-mortem required
  • Closing technical presentation
RM 4,700
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How the courses are structured

Each design decision reflects the kind of learning that holds up when you are six months into a real project.

Material from the source

Transformer architecture is taught by working through the paper, not through a library abstraction. You build what you study.

Code review on every submission

Each assignment receives written feedback on correctness, readability, and engineering choices — not just a pass/fail mark.

Cluster access included

GPU compute and inference budget are part of the course fee. Hardware constraints are documented honestly per assignment.

Known failure modes documented

Every course unit lists where learners commonly get stuck. You can read what goes wrong before it happens to you.

Responsible deployment covered

Dataset licensing, model risk, provenance, and consent are addressed as engineering considerations, not policy appendices.

Written completion record

Each learner receives a written assessment record documenting what was completed and how. All code written remains the learner's.

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Have questions about prerequisites or course fit?

Send a message and someone from the team will read it and respond with a plain answer — no sales process, no pressure.

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Common questions

Do I need a machine learning background to enrol in the first course?
No. The Python and Data Engineering course is written for analysts and backend developers who have not yet worked with model training. It covers the numerical computing and pipeline foundations that model work depends on, rather than the models themselves.
What Python experience does the first course expect?
Comfortable writing functions, reading tracebacks, and using a package manager. You do not need to know NumPy or Pandas beforehand — those are covered in the course — but you should be able to read Python without difficulty.
Is the Transformer Architectures course done entirely online?
Weekly live sessions and paper-reading sessions are held online. The cluster is accessed remotely. Learners based in Kuala Lumpur may attend occasional in-person reviews at our KL Gateway office, though these are not required.
How is the Capstone Track different from the Transformer course?
The Transformer course is about understanding and training language models. The Capstone Track is about the system around a model: retrieval, serving infrastructure, evaluation harnesses, monitoring, cost control, and a written error analysis. It is aimed at practitioners who already know how to train and need the surrounding system to work reliably under load.
What is the total fee and how is payment structured?
Python & Data Engineering: RM 550. Transformer Architectures: RM 2,120. AI Systems Capstone: RM 4,700. Payment terms and instalment options are discussed during the enrolment process. Contact us to ask about the current arrangement.
Do I keep the code I write during the courses?
Yes. All code you write during the Transformer course and Capstone Track belongs to you. The Capstone Track produces a working system and a record of how it was built — both are yours at close.
How is my personal data handled when I submit an enquiry?
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