Ship ML Systems
    Your Team Actually
    Depends On

    Most data scientists can build models, but can't structure, deploy, and monitor them. In six weeks, not the months it takes alone, you'll ship ML systems and become the data scientist companies actually want to hire.

    Andres Vourakis - Course Instructor

    Hosted by Andres Vourakis

    Senior Data Scientist • 8+ years experience

    6-week cohort
    Live AI Chats
    Weekly hands-on projects
    COHORT-BASED COURSE

    ML in Production Bootcamp

    EARLY-BIRD PRICE
    $800$1,500

    Only 4 early-bird seats left at $800, or until Jul 31

    Sep 8 – Oct 23, 2026
    6 weeks, 4-7 hrs/week
    Live AI Chats + community
    Secure Your Spot

    The Job Market Wants Data Scientists Who Ship

    Hiring is shifting toward production skills, not just modeling. Data scientists who can ship end-to-end are seeing the upside.

    87%

    of ML models never make it to production.

    VentureBeat

    50%

    Demand for skilled data scientists is projected to exceed supply by 50% by 2026.

    SD Mines, 2025

    Standout

    Deployment skills are cited as the key differentiator in data science hiring.

    Edstellar, 2026

    What You'll Build by the End of Week 6

    One XGBoost project, six layers. Each week adds a layer to the same repo. You don't build six toy demos. You evolve one real system from a notebook into a deployed, monitored, alert-firing production service.

    Containerize and serve your model

    Wrap your model in a FastAPI service and package it in Docker. The same container runs identically on your laptop, a colleague's machine, or on AWS. Predictions are one curl away.

    Track every experiment, version every model

    Self-host MLflow backed by S3. Log experiments, compare runs, and register versioned models so the question "which hyperparameters did we use last quarter?" has an actual answer.

    Deploy on AWS with real CI/CD

    Stand up an EC2 instance and set up GitHub Actions. Push to main, watch the pipeline build, test, and deploy your service automatically. No more SSHing into a server to drop in a new model.

    Monitor, detect drift, alert when things break

    Add drift detection with Evidently, structured logging, and a Streamlit dashboard. Wire alerts to Slack so the system tells you when reality starts diverging from training data.

    Each layer you push gets reviewed, so you learn what's production-grade and what needs work, before it's the thing you show your team.

    Every managed ML platform (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Databricks) is a UI on top of these patterns. Learn them once, swap platforms whenever you want.

    The Stack You'll Master

    Each tool maps to a layer of the system you'll build.

    Project & Serving
    PythonuvFastAPIDocker
    Tracking
    MLflowS3
    Deployment
    AWS EC2GitHub ActionsCI/CD
    Monitoring
    EvidentlyStreamlitSlack

    You'll add every tool above to your resume, signaling to future employers you've worked with the modern, in-demand stack data teams actually hire for.

    Is This Program Right for Me?

    Most MLOps content was built for engineers. Almost none of it teaches you what a data scientist needs to take a model end-to-end.

    This program is built for the people who can build models but haven't shipped one their team actually depends on, regardless of title:

    Mid-Career to Senior Data Scientists

    You've trained models that produce numbers you trust. You haven't deployed one your team depends on, and "go talk to engineering" has gotten old. You want to become the data scientist your team can't ship without.

    Junior & Transitioning ML Engineers

    You've shipped pieces of ML systems but never owned one end-to-end. You want to be the kind of MLE who designs and ships whole systems, not the one plumbing other people's models into production.

    Note: Not suitable if you're already deploying production ML systems on your own, without leaning on an engineering team. The content would feel basic. This program is for the people on the other side of that bridge.

    ML in Production Bootcamp

    Basic Admission Requirements

    What's Included

    Everything you need to ship your first production ML system

    Weekly Lectures + AI Chats

    Pre-recorded lectures every Friday plus optional Sunday AI Chats with an experienced instructor.

    Slack Community Access

    A cohort of peers who keep you accountable, so you actually finish.

    Hands-on Assignments

    Weekly project work that builds the system layer by layer.

    Code Reviews

    Your weekly build gets reviewed, so you always know what's production-grade and what to fix.

    Production-Ready Capstone

    Leave with one deployed, monitored ML system on AWS you can show your team.

    Certificate + Lifetime Access

    Keep all materials forever, plus a certificate that showcases your production ML skills.

    6-Week Curriculum

    From notebook to a live, monitored production system. One ML project, six layers.

    Pre-recorded lectures are released every Friday (week by week), followed by an optional AI Chat on Sundays. AI Chats cover topics beyond the lectures with your instructor.

    Lectures unlock week by week so you can progress with the cohort without feeling overwhelmed.

    Your Instructor

    Get direct guidance from an experienced instructor through the community and weekly AI Chats

    Andres Vourakis

    Instructor

    Senior Data Scientist @ Nextory | 8+ yrs in tech & applied AI/ML

    I've been in your shoes as a data professional figuring out how to grow. After more than eight years in data science, the last year marked a clear shift: the market was changing fast, I felt some stagnation, and staying relevant became a real concern. I took that seriously and went deep into building AI and ML systems that hold up in production. Shipping that work is what removed the uncertainty for me, and it is what every program at Future Proof Data Science is built around.

    Rather than treat infrastructure as someone else's problem, I built the engineering skills myself: containerized services, tracked experiments, CI/CD pipelines, and monitored deployments. The same patterns this bootcamp teaches are the ones I use day to day on real models that real teams depend on.

    More than anything, building these skills is what made me a full-stack data scientist, the kind who can navigate a fast-changing job market with ease instead of worrying about staying relevant.

    8+
    Years Experience
    100+
    Mentees
    50K+
    Followers
    50+
    Interviews

    This Cohort Is New. The Way I Teach Isn't.

    You'd be joining the founding cohort of ML in Production, first in the room as it launches. The format behind it is already proven: more than 50 data scientists have come through my AI Workflows bootcamp. Here's what some of them say about how I run a cohort.

    Coming in, everything seemed like impenetrable buzzwords that had no relevance to my lived data science experience. Now I am seeing how that really synthesizes.

    Christopher Neffshade
    Christopher Neffshade
    Senior Data Scientist
    Apr 2026 cohort

    The strong mentor support and guidance throughout the process make building working systems both achievable and rewarding.

    Sri Bandhakavi
    Sri Bandhakavi
    Associate Director, Data Science
    Apr 2026 cohort

    The cohort environment creates a unique 'compare and contrast' experience where you can see how others approach similar problems.

    HH
    Hiroki Hayama
    Jan 2026 cohort

    Plus, being first has its perks: founding price, a direct hand in shaping the bootcamp, and more of my attention than anyone who joins later.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Ready to Ship Your Models?

    Join the founding cohort of ML in Production.

    Sep 8 – Oct 23, 2026
    $800 early-bird: first 10 students or until Jul 31