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CFDE
Certified Forward Deployed Engineer

For the builders who take AI from demo to production.

Who it's for

  • Software, data & ML engineers
  • Solution architects & DevOps teams
  • IT teams in government & enterprise

What it builds

  • Building & deploying AI agents in production
  • LLM integration, RAG & workflow orchestration
  • AI security, evaluation & governance in deployment

In the AI Lab

  • A production AI agent, shipped end-to-end
  • A RAG knowledge system on live data
  • Evaluation & guardrail pipelines
  • An AI-security red-team & audit workflow
Why it matters  The scarcest profile in the market: engineers who take AI from demo to production. CFDE certifies it.
LEVEL I
Foundations
30 hrs
LEVEL II
Practitioner
30 hrs
LEVEL III
Leader
30 hrs
CAPSTONE
The AI Lab
10 hrs

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