Great Demo, Dead Pilot: The FDE Craft That Actually Ships AI.
Join Nahid Farady, PhD (Principal Tech Lead, AI Security & Privacy · Microsoft) for a free live session.
Nahid Farady, PhD
Principal Tech Lead, AI Security & Privacy · Microsoft
⭐ 4.9 / 5
Already build agentic systems? Add the FDE craft in six sessions.
The FDE Sprint starts straight at the distinctly-FDE skills — scope, build, deploy, and own real AI systems inside customer environments. Five weeks of craft plus a portfolio-grade capstone: no repetition of agent, RAG, or multi-agent foundations, and no interview prep. The shortest way to add the FDE layer to what you already build.
What You'll Learn
Run the Full FDE Lifecycle
Take a customer engagement end to end — Scope → Build → Deploy → Operate — from discovery and SoW through enterprise wiring, RBAC, and handover.
Scope & Price Like an FDE
Turn an ambiguous customer ask into an SoW with eval-anchored acceptance criteria, a pricing model, and a defensible solution architecture.
Wire & Govern Production AI
Ship inside customer environments: APIs as agent tools, hardened MCP servers, end-to-end RBAC, compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR), and observability.
Ship a Portfolio-Grade Capstone
Deliver PriorAuth AI — a real customer-style engagement from discovery to production handover — across Azure, GCP, and AWS.
Who Is This For?
This sprint is designed for:
Agentic-AI Program Grads
You've already built agents, RAG, multi-agent systems, and evals — now add the customer-facing FDE layer that makes you deployable.
Engineers with Agentic-AI Experience
You can already ship LLM / agent applications; add scoping, enterprise wiring, governance, operations, and customer handover.
AI Engineers & MLEs Moving into Delivery
Step out of the model lab and own production AI systems inside customer environments, not just demos.
In-Place Upskillers
Bring FDE-grade delivery discipline to your current team's AI projects — without a job switch.
Sprint Outline
6 weeks · 3 sessions per week
Projects You'll Ship
Leave with real work to show, not just a certificate.
ClaimSense AI — Auto-Insurance Claims Co-Pilot
Built live with the instructor: from customer discovery, SoW, and solution architecture to a multi-agent + MCP + RAG system that reads claim files (police reports, photos, repair estimates), surfaces high-confidence first decisions to adjusters, flags edge cases for human review, and deploys to production with a proper handover. Primary stack: OpenAI Agents SDK + Azure AI Foundry.
Multi-Tenant MCP Server
The Week 4 live project: build and harden an MCP server as the enterprise integration layer across two or more systems, exposing APIs as agent tools with OAuth2 / Entra and end-to-end RBAC.
PriorAuth AI — Hospital Prior-Auth Co-Pilot (Capstone)
Your learner-led FDE capstone: own a full engagement at a regional hospital network — run discovery, write the SoW, then build a multi-agent co-pilot that reads chart notes, retrieves payer policy and medical-necessity criteria, drafts citation-backed auth requests, and routes ambiguous cases to a human reviewer. Custom FastMCP server scoped per facility, end-user SSO, full audit logging. Shipped on Azure (primary) + GCP + AWS.
Your Instructors
Nahid Farady, PhD
Principal Tech Lead, AI Security & Privacy · Microsoft
⭐ 4.9 / 5
Nahid leads AI security, privacy, and responsible AI engineering at Microsoft Copilot, with prior roles at Google Cloud and Capital One CyberML. She holds a PhD from Virginia Tech and brings 10+ years of applied experience in cybersecurity, threat modeling, and ML deployment at scale. She also teaches AI and security as adjunct faculty at UC Berkeley.
Sprint Schedule
All sessions are instructor-led and live. Recordings available within 24 hours.
SUNDAY
9:00 AM PDT
Live ClassThe week's 3-hour live FDE craft session — taught live by a practicing FDE; recordings are backup for missed classes.
WEDNESDAY
6:00 PM PDT
Office HoursOptional instructor Q&A to unblock your weekly build and capstone work.
THURSDAY
Self-paced
Capstone BuildGuided, self-paced work on the PriorAuth AI capstone and weekly assignments (~4–5 hrs).
Frequently Asked Questions
Great Demo, Dead Pilot: The FDE Craft That Actually Ships AI.
with Nahid Farady, PhD · Principal Tech Lead, AI Security & Privacy, Microsoft
What you'll walk away with:
🎁 Bonus for attendees:
Get "The FDE Engagement Starter Kit"
An SoW template with eval-anchored acceptance criteria, a scoping-question bank, and a reference solution architecture — ready to use on your next customer engagement.
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Skills you can deploy on Monday morning.