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Ai Engineer Plan 2025

The document outlines a six-month skill path for software developers to become production-ready AI engineers. It includes a step-by-step learning plan covering core AI concepts, deep learning, model deployment, MLOps, data engineering, and real-time inference, along with projects and resources for each month. The final outcome is the ability to build, deploy, and integrate AI systems into real-world applications while managing end-to-end workflows.
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Ai Engineer Plan 2025

The document outlines a six-month skill path for software developers to become production-ready AI engineers. It includes a step-by-step learning plan covering core AI concepts, deep learning, model deployment, MLOps, data engineering, and real-time inference, along with projects and resources for each month. The final outcome is the ability to build, deploy, and integrate AI systems into real-world applications while managing end-to-end workflows.
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🔥 AI Engineer Skill Path for Software Developers (2025)

🎯 Goal:

Become a Production-Ready AI Engineer who can integrate, deploy, and maintain AI models within real-
world software systems.

📆 Step-by-Step Learning Plan

✅ Month 1: Core AI & ML Foundations

• What is Machine Learning?


• Types: Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement
• Key concepts: Overfitting, Bias-Variance, Cross-validation
• Learn Python + Pandas + Numpy
• Tools: Google Colab, Jupyter Notebook

Resources:

• Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning (Coursera)


• Kaggle Learn: Python, Pandas, Intro to ML

✅ Month 2: Deep Learning & Neural Networks

• What is Deep Learning?


• Neural Networks: Feedforward, CNN, RNN, Transformers
• Frameworks: TensorFlow & PyTorch
• Train & test small models on datasets like MNIST, CIFAR-10

Projects: Image classification, text classification

Resources:

• DeepLearning.AI Deep Learning Specialization


• fast.ai: Practical Deep Learning for Coders

✅ Month 3: Model to Microservice

• Learn how to expose models using APIs


• Tools: FastAPI, Flask, Node.js (optional)
• Wrap models into inference services
• Add input validation, error handling

Project: Serve a trained model via REST API

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Resources:

• Full Stack Deep Learning


• YouTube: Deploy ML with FastAPI / Flask

✅ Month 4: MLOps & Deployment

• Dockerize your model and API


• Learn CI/CD basics with GitHub Actions
• Deploy to Heroku, AWS Lambda, or GCP
• Monitor metrics (latency, memory, throughput)

Tools: Docker, Kubernetes basics, MLflow

Project: Deploy and monitor a chatbot or fraud detection model

Resources:

• MLOps Zoomcamp
• Google Vertex AI Quickstart

✅ Month 5: Data Engineering & Pipelines

• Build ETL pipelines


• Clean and prepare data using Pandas & SQL
• Automate workflows with Apache Airflow / Prefect
• Monitor data drift and logs

Project: Create a scheduled pipeline that retrains a model

Resources:

• DataTalksClub: Data Engineering Zoomcamp


• Hands-On ML with Scikit-Learn

✅ Month 6: Real-Time Inference & Business Integration

• Learn batch vs real-time inference


• Use Redis/Kafka for streaming
• Apply Explainable AI techniques
• A/B test models and measure ROI

Project: Real-time recommendation engine with dashboard

Tools:

• Redis
• Kafka

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• SHAP / LIME for explainability

🧠 Bonus Skills
• Prompt Engineering with LLMs (OpenAI, Claude)
• HuggingFace Transformers
• SQL for analytics
• REST & gRPC APIs

📌 Final Project (Capstone)


Build and deploy a full AI system:

• Model training pipeline


• REST API for inference
• Frontend integration (React or CLI)
• Auto retraining + monitoring + logging

🏁 Outcome
By following this plan, you’ll be able to:

• Build & train ML/DL models


• Deploy models as microservices
• Integrate AI into real products
• Own end-to-end MLOps workflows
• Speak both software and AI fluently

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