Most ML courses end at model training. This course starts there. You'll own the entire lifecycle — every phase covered with real tools used by production ML teams.
Data
- Pipelines
- Versioning
- Feature stores
- DVC
Experiment
- MLflow tracking
- Model registry
- Hyperparameter optimisation
Package
- Docker containers
- FastAPI serving
- ONNX export
Deploy
- CI/CD pipelines
- Kubernetes
- Cloud (AWS/GCP)
Monitor
- Drift detection
- Grafana dashboards
- Auto-retraining
No toy examples. Every tool below is used on a real project in the course. These are the exact tools on job descriptions at ML engineering companies in India and globally.
By week 3 you'll have a fully automated CI/CD pipeline that handles the entire model lifecycle — from a git push to a live, monitored endpoint.
Tests
Validation
Training
& Gate
Container
Staging
Test
Prod
MLOps Engineer
Dedicated MLOps roles at companies with mature ML infrastructure — handling pipelines, monitoring, and reliability.
₹15–30 LPA rangeAI Platform Engineer
Build the internal tooling and infrastructure that other ML engineers depend on — high leverage, high impact roles.
₹18–35 LPA rangeFull-Stack ML Engineer
The rarest and most valuable profile: an engineer who can build, train, deploy, monitor, and scale ML systems end-to-end.
₹20–40 LPA rangeCloud ML Architect
AWS/GCP ML specialists designing the cloud infrastructure for ML workloads — SageMaker, Vertex AI, GKE expertise.
₹22–45 LPA range// This course is for
- Why containers: reproducibility, environment isolation, portability
- Docker fundamentals: images, containers, Dockerfile, layers
- Multi-stage builds for slim production images
- FastAPI: routing, Pydantic models, async endpoints, middleware
- Serve a Scikit-learn model via REST API with input validation
- Docker Compose: multi-container setups (API + database + monitoring)
- Health checks, readiness probes, graceful shutdown
- Load testing with Locust: latency, throughput, error rate
- MLflow: tracking runs, logging metrics/parameters/artifacts
- MLflow Model Registry: staging → production promotion workflow
- Weights & Biases: experiment comparison, sweep visualisation
- DVC: data version control, remote storage (S3/GCS), pipeline DAGs
- Feature stores with Feast: offline/online feature retrieval
- Training-serving skew: causes, detection, prevention
- Model cards: documenting model behaviour, limitations, and bias
- ML-specific testing: unit tests for transforms, integration tests for the API
- Great Expectations: data quality validation before training
- GitHub Actions: workflow YAML, triggers, matrix builds, secrets
- Full ML CI/CD pipeline: push → test → train → evaluate → gate → build → deploy
- Evaluation gate: block deployment if metric regression detected
- Container registry: push to AWS ECR or GitHub Container Registry
- Canary deployments and blue-green strategy for ML services
- Kubernetes core: pods, deployments, services, namespaces, configmaps
- Deploy ML API to local K8s cluster (minikube)
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA): scale on CPU/RPS
- AWS basics for ML: EC2, S3, ECR, IAM roles
- Deploy to EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) or GKE
- SageMaker introduction: managed training and endpoints
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: provision reproducible ML infra
- Model monitoring fundamentals: data drift, concept drift, performance decay
- Evidently AI: generate drift reports, data quality reports
- Prometheus: instrument FastAPI with custom ML metrics
- Grafana: dashboards for model performance, throughput, latency
- Alerting: PagerDuty/Slack integration for model health alerts
- Automated retraining: trigger on drift threshold with Airflow/Prefect
- A/B testing ML models in production: shadow mode, split traffic
- Capstone: end-to-end MLOps system for a real ML use case
Containerised Fraud Detection API
Package the fraud detection model from ML Mastery into a FastAPI service, containerise it with Docker, document the API with OpenAPI, and load-test it with Locust.
Experiment Tracking Dashboard
Set up MLflow tracking for 5 model variants on the same dataset. Build a model registry with staging/production lifecycle and demonstrate reproducible runs from DVC-versioned data.
Full CI/CD ML Pipeline
Build a GitHub Actions pipeline that automatically trains, evaluates, gates, containers, and deploys an updated model on every push to main — with Slack notifications at each stage.
Production ML System with Monitoring
Full system: model served via FastAPI on Kubernetes, CI/CD pipeline via GitHub Actions, Evidently drift reports, Prometheus + Grafana dashboard, automated retraining trigger on drift detection.
Newton JEE Platinum Badge
AI Engineer — MLOps & AI Engineering
The Platinum Badge — Full-Stack AI Engineer
The Platinum badge is the capstone of the Newton JEE certification ladder. It signals to recruiters that you can take a model all the way from research to production — the complete engineering skill set. Combined with Silver or Gold badges, it creates one of the most comprehensive AI credential clusters visible on LinkedIn.
I knew Docker from work but had never connected it to ML deployments. The FastAPI + Docker + GitHub Actions pipeline from week 3 is now copied verbatim into my company's ML project template. My manager asked who built it. That conversation led directly to a promotion discussion.
Vikram's teaching style is brutally practical — he skips the theory that doesn't matter in production and goes deep on what does. The drift detection week completely changed how I think about model lifecycle. I shipped our company's first model monitoring dashboard the week after the course ended.
The Platinum badge on LinkedIn generated more recruiter messages in two weeks than my degree certificate has in two years. "Kubernetes + MLflow + Evidently" on a profile is genuinely rare — most ML people can't deploy their own models. This course makes you the exception.
Week 4 (Kubernetes) is dense and assumes some Linux comfort. I had to rewatch sessions and look up some kubectl commands. But after week 4 clicked, everything in week 5 made complete sense. The monitoring capstone felt like real work — in the best possible way.