AI MAKERSPACE GRADUATES

Certified AI Engineers: A Global Community of Practitioners

Thanks for your dedication to AI engineering, support and interest in AI Makerspace. Check out where certified graduates are from around the world.


*All certified graduates included on this page have not opted out of inclusion for any legal or privacy reasons.

Certified Graduates

Unique Countries

Enrollments, All Cohorts

>3,400

Total Students Reached


*The total stats shown also included graduates not listed below or shown on the map of countries.

Certified AI Makerspace Graduates

Click on each graduate to learn more about them, their unique learning experience, and their application with AI Makerspace, or to connect on LinkedIn.

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Aania Adap

Cohort 10
Data Science Intern
HDFC Capital Advisors Limited
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Wilma Guo

Cohort 10
Data Science Manager
AIA
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Song Zhiying

Cohort 10
Data Scientist
AIA
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Richard Irving

Cohort 10
Sales Engineer & Customer Success Leader
apiplatform.io
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Reuben Frith

Cohort 10
Senior Software Engineer
Nova Systems
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Parth Savani

Cohort 10
Staff Software Engineer
NerdWallet
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Mohtsham Majeed

Cohort 10
Technical Lead
Manulife
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Matt Sharp

Cohort 10
AI Engineer
Flexion
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Chris Monnat

Cohort 11
CTO & Managing Partner
Dual Logic
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Brendan Turpin

Cohort 10
Lead GenAI Engineer
Royal Caribbean Group
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Andrew Marcum

Cohort 10
Cloud Architect
Google
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Abhinay Tomar

Cohort 10
Engineering Technical Lead
Planet DDS
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Luka Lukačević

Cohort 9

Hrvatski Telekom
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Nikos Michalakis

Cohort 9
Founder
Red Vest Mindset
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Shweta Addala

Cohort 9
Engineering Leader
Google

What is a Certified Graduate?

AI Makerspace Grads are Today's AI Forward-Deployed Engineers Leading the Way

 

Certified AI FDEs are normal people, just like you.

They hail different backgrounds, industries, and skillsets well beyond tech. Some currently work at at the most well-known companies in the world, and others simply live right next door and have regular day jobs. Some have started their next chapter, and others are still aspiring to do so.

Part of what AI Makerspace encourages you to embrace from Day 1 is your own personal career journey.

 

What are you aiming at 🎯?

What Graduates are Saying

Hear From Graduates After Getting Certified with AI Makerspace

 

These are the kinds of things that people who dedicate themselves to certification tell us...

"Amazing course."

"Passionate instructors."

"Changed my relationship with AI and online courses."

"Gained invaluable skills."

"I feel confident using this framework."

 

READY FOR ANOTHER CHALLENGE?

 

Our certification you walk away with is good for two years and the foundation you walk away with sets you apart. If you want to come back again to keep your application and knowledge fresh, you know what to do. Start the AI Engineer Challenge and register for our next course.

Read Testimonials from Students

Dr. Dragos Crintea testimonial

Dr. Dragos Crintea

I am on my second round through AI Makerspace training. After a few weeks in the program, it is definitely harder than last time. This says everything, always raising the bar and making sure when you graduate, you are well-equipped to tackle your company’s AI dreams or your own.

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Keertana Chandar

AI Makerspace completely changed my relationship with both AI and online courses. Instead of just teaching me the basics of AI, this class helped me truly understand the 'behind the scenes', to the point where I feel confident using this knowledge in my job and sharing it with others. This has been the first online course where I’ve felt real growth!

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Vincent Kienzler, Ph.D.

This is an amazing course. It is thorough, well thought through, and covers a wide range of topics and tools with a good depth. The team does a great job at keeping the student engaged, via homeworks and projects, and is always available for further discussion. I strongly recommend.

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Robert H. Eubanks

The AI Engineer Class provided me with an exceptional learning experience that greatly enhanced my understanding of artificial intelligence and its practical applications. The course content was well-structured, engaging, and delivered by knowledgeable instructors who were passionate about the subject matter. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to gain valuable skills in the field of AI.

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Milani McGraw

This is an amazing course! The curriculum is extremely comprehensive and I am walking out of this course with a handful of new skills that I can use in the future! The instructors are great, and no matter what you’re supported all around whether it be by your classmates, the peer supporters, or the instructors. I highly recommend this course to anyone.

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Mark Tedde

Absolutely the best course on LLMs out there right now! I learned so much going through these 7 weeks that I'm now able to go from prototype to deployment of complex RAG systems!

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Debora Andrade, Ph.D.

A brilliant and intense course, very much worth it.

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Anurag Lahon

Great hands on course. It helps me to start my AI journey after having some doubts in many areas. Help me to connect the dots

AI Makerspace operates on an adaptive curriculum, updated cohort by cohort, so learners are never behind in their capabilities.

The full journey covers the entire modern AI stack — LLMs → RAG → Agents → Evals → MVPs → Use Cases → Production.

Register Now: AI FDE Certification

Cohort 11 from Sept 29 - Dec 10, 2026 [v1.1] will see:

  • 🧭 Course and applications process redesign to align with active, advanced, mid-career AI Engineers
  • 🛠️ Updates to the foundational AI Engineer dev stack to mirror more closely what we've found at large companies (e.g., VSCode, Claude Code)
  • 🎯 Intentional use-case identification aligned with industry best practices
  • 🔒 Unblocking the bottleneck of highly sensitive, private data via Synthetic Data Generation with Open LLMs
  • 🔎 Agentic search variants of RAG (e.g., Direct Corpus Interaction (DCI), LLM Wikis)
  • 🧩 Tools vs. Skills vs. MCP vs. Subagents vs. Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) vs. Code Mode
  • 🔁 Harness & loop engineering for long-running agents (e.g., Ralph, Spec-Driven Dev)
  • 🛡️ Security fundamentals including observability for detection & prevention
  • 🥷 Adversarial security techniques (e.g., prompt optimization for prompt injection, context bombing)
  • 🎥 Extending multimodality to video search & building multi-agent voice applications

To join us:

  1. View our course and complete your AI FDE Certification application.
  2. Your application will be reviewed by our team to share the next steps.
View the Curriculum and Apply →