Data Collection Strategy - Building the Moat Before Training the Model
Learn how to design data collection and labeling strategies that determine a model's fate before a line of training code is written - the most underestimated skill in ML engineering.
Feature Engineering at Scale - The 80% of ML Work That Determines 80% of Results
How to build feature pipelines that work identically in training and serving - feature stores, point-in-time joins, crossing, embedding lookup, and avoiding training-serving skew.
Feedback Loops and the Data Flywheel - How ML Systems Compound Over Time
A deep dive into feedback loop design, concept drift detection, retraining strategies, and building data flywheels that make ML systems continuously improve in production.
Framing ML Problems - Turning Business Goals into Training Objectives
Learn how to translate ambiguous business goals into precise ML objectives - the most critical and most overlooked skill in ML system design.
ML Deployment Patterns - From Jupyter Notebook to Production at Scale
A comprehensive guide to ML deployment strategies, serving architectures, optimization techniques, and model registry practices for shipping models safely at scale.
Model Selection Strategy - Choosing the Right Model for the Right Problem
A systematic framework for selecting model families, managing complexity budgets, tuning hyperparameters, and knowing when AutoML helps versus hurts.
Module 10 - ML System Design
End-to-end ML system design - from problem framing through deployment, feedback loops, and responsible AI. Master the skills that separate ML engineers who ship from those who only experiment.
Offline vs Online Evaluation - Why Your AUC Goes Up But Revenue Goes Down
A deep dive into offline and online evaluation strategies, A/B testing fundamentals, sample size calculation, interleaving, and the root causes of the offline-online metric gap.
Responsible AI and Ethics - Building Systems That Don't Cause Harm
Fairness metrics, bias detection, privacy-preserving ML, model auditing, and the regulatory frameworks every ML engineer must understand.