databag Academy
Become a Forward Deployed Engineer
One curriculum, two ways to take it. Pick the schedule that fits your week.
Weekend course
4 Saturdays in January
- Dates
- Jan 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2027
- Time
- Saturdays · 10:00–16:00 CET
- Price
- €499
Evening course
5 Fridays, after work
- Dates
- Fridays, Jan 8 – Feb 5, 2027
- Time
- Fridays · 17:00–20:00 CET
- Price
- €499
What is an FDE?
A modern consultant who ships products, not slide decks
You sit with the customer, understand the problem and build the solution end to end, using AI at every step.
- Requirements
- Analysis
- Design
- Code
- Build
- Deploy
- Monitor
- Optimize
- Repeat
Curriculum
What you will learn
AI engineering
- How models behave
- Prompt and context engineering
- Custom, dedicated and personal AI agents
- AI inside existing software
- Software factories and dark factories
- Building factories for different processes
- RAG
- MCP
- Harness engineering
- Loop engineering
- Evaluation engineering
- Agent sandboxing
- Fine-tuning open-source LLMs
Engineering foundations
- System design
- Software engineering
- Security
- Networking
- Data, APIs and integrations
- Cloud deployment and monitoring
Product & delivery
- Customer discovery
- Product life cycle
- Software development life cycle
- Business process life cycle
- Demo and handover to the customer
Startup life cycle
- Market research
- MVP and product-market fit
- Go-to-market and marketing
- Sales funnel
- Finance and accounting
- Fundraising
- Registering a company and tax filing
- Zero to one, startup to scale-up
Included in both courses
- Live online sessions, small group
- Every session recorded
- Build your own idea, live on a real URL
- databag FDE certificate
- Cohort chat and alumni access
- Company invoice on request
No prerequisites. Coding and non-coding backgrounds are welcome.