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AI Engineering is 90% Software Engineering, you only need to master the AI Layer Next.
If you want to build AI products that businesses can actually use, prompting alone isn’t enough.
You need to know how to build, test, deploy and monitor AI systems.
Here are 10 skills to Master AI Engineering:
(Bookmark this Roadmap)
1️⃣ LLMs → Understand how models work under the hood, not just how to call an API.
2️⃣ Claude Code → Use AI to accelerate real software development.
3️⃣ Claude Skills → Turn repeatable workflows into reusable AI capabilities.
4️⃣ OpenClaw → Understand the infrastructure and patterns behind modern AI engineering.
5️⃣ AI Deployment/Production → Learn how to reduce Token Usage, Subscriptions and measure credits and API costs. So you can debug and improve AI systems in production.
6️⃣ LangGraph → Build production-ready AI agents with Python.
7️⃣ Fine Tuning → Learn how to train your own model on your own data for specialized cases using existing ground models from Hugging Face and Ollama.
8️⃣ RAG → Connect AI to real company data and make responses actually useful.
9️⃣ AI Agents → Systems that can reason, use tools, and execute tasks.
🔟 Build Projects → You need to say, "i can build real AI products". Not just like, i know how to integrate an LLM.
The business value is simple:
Better engineering → more reliable AI → faster development → fewer failures → products people can actually trust.
And the best part?
You can learn all of these through free, hands-on resources.
Bookmark this roadmap and build something instead of just watching tutorials.
Wanna get inspired, check out www.codewithmasood.com for more tutorials or visit my profile here for expert AI & Web development solutions.
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🚀 Available for Freelance AI & Software Engineering Projects
I’m Shivani, an AI Engineer focused on building production-oriented agentic systems, LLM applications, AI infrastructure, and scalable backend systems.
Here’s what I’ve been building and contributing to:
🤖 Agentic AI Systems
Building agents with real backend infrastructure — including tools, memory, checkpoints, RAG, human-in-the-loop workflows, and multi-agent orchestration.
⚡ LLM Inference & Optimization
InferLite explores LLM inference performance and quantization across ONNX Runtime, vLLM, llama.cpp, GPTQ, and AWQ, measuring TTFT, tokens/sec, memory usage, and runtime performance.
🧩 LangGraph Contributions
Working on agent runtime infrastructure including Pregel/DeltaChannel persistence, checkpoint rebuilding, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
🔗 AutoGen Contributions
Exploring multi-agent workflows involving planning, tool execution, memory, and orchestration.
🔬 ONNX Runtime
Contributed to the WebGPU 2-bit quantization path, working on efficient inference infrastructure.
🛠️ Backend & AI Infrastructure
I work with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, GitHub Actions, RAG, FAISS, ONNX Runtime, and modern agent frameworks.
I’m available for projects involving:
• AI Agents & Agentic Workflows
• LLM / RAG Applications
• AI Automation
• Multi-Agent Systems
• LLM Evaluation
• Inference Optimization
• Model Quantization
• Python / FastAPI Backend Development
• AI APIs & Integrations
• AI-powered Web Applications
🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/Shivani767/
🌐 Portfolio: https://aether-synapse.vercel.app
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivani-bhandari-bbb69a333/
If you're a startup, founder, researcher, or team looking for help building an AI product, agent workflow, backend system, or inference pipeline, I’d love to collaborate.
📩 DM me with your project idea or requirements.
#Freelance #AIEngineer #AIAgents #AgenticAI #LLM #RAG #MachineLearning #Python #FastAPI #LLMInference #AIInfrastructure #Automation
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