All Lab Assignments#

Week 01 — Development Environment & Tooling#

• Lab: Publish a Python library to PyPI using UV
• Lab: Publish a UV CLI tool + generate LaTeX documentation PDF
• Lab: Bash automation: daily project summary committed to GitHub

Week 02 — Deployment & API Engineering#

• Lab: Publish a Gemma model API on HuggingFace Spaces with Google Auth
• Lab: Add full observability to a FastAPI service; build Grafana dashboard

Week 03 — LLM Engineering#

• Lab: YouTube → Subtitles → Topics → timestamps + JSON summary pipeline
• Lab: Cost-tracking dashboard; compare prompt strategies via LangSmith

Week 04 — RAG & Hybrid RAG#

• CAPSTONE: BS Degree Chatbot
• CAPSTONE: Policy Chatbot (Sujal Nirmaan)
• Lab: RAGAS evaluation dashboard (Naive vs Hybrid vs Contextual)

Week 05 — Agentic AI#

• CAPSTONE: Autonomous Research Agent
• CAPSTONE: VivaAgent — AI Oral Examiner
• Lab: Context-based extraction tool (PDF/Web/Video)

Week 06 — Web Scraping & Data Processing#

• CAPSTONE: Job Posting Scraper & Tracker
• CAPSTONE: AI Signature Detection & Cropper
• CAPSTONE: Live Multilingual Travel Translator
• Lab: Scheduled scraper with GitHub Actions cron (DuckDB + Parquet)

Week 07 — CI/CD, Security & Cloud Infrastructure#

• Lab: Red-team your own API + add NeMo Guardrails
• Lab: Full CI/CD: build → scan → Artifact Registry → deploy to Cloud Run

Week 08 — MLOps, Fine-Tuning & Model Publishing#

• CAPSTONE: Production Fine-Tuned Model + Full MLOps
• Lab: Full GCP pipeline (GCS → BigQuery ML → Vertex AI → Cloud Run)