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Modernize Your Engineering Org for the AI Era

A full day that turns AI code generation into a repeatable operational system your entire engineering organization runs the same way

Duration

Full-Day

Format

In Person & Virtual

Group size

8 to 25 people

Price Range

$12,000+

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Stop playing with AI. Start standardizing how your team ships.

AI coding tools are routinely marketed as a magic bullet. Buy the Copilot or Cursor licenses, hand them to your developers, and expect immediate 10x gains.

Without standardized systems, what you end up getting is slightly faster typing and a codebase cluttered with sprawling boilerplate.

Or perhaps you solved the infrastructure challenge first. You bought the box and watched Qwen 3.8 generate tokens on your own hardware just to prove it could be done. But running a model is an infrastructure task. Getting eight engineers to ship code differently on Monday morning is a workflow problem.

This hands-on technical workshop turns AI code generation into a repeatable operational system run uniformly across your entire organization. We connect MCP servers directly to your internal workflows. We build bespoke agent skills for automated QA, continuous integration checks, and automated code review. And we implement agentic workflows that write, test, and verify code autonomously across frontier cloud APIs, local open-weight models, or hybrid environments.

I am the CTO and co-founder of Yembo, the author of Grow Up Fast, and the holder of 31 granted US patents. I have trained over 5,000 technical professionals and engineered computer vision platforms that process millions of production requests globally. This workshop is battle-tested production mechanics, not high-level academic theory.

Scope note: this workshop is engineered for software developers, platform engineers, and technical leadership. If your teams want to automate business operations, customer support, HR, or finance instead, that is Mastering Agentic Workflows, the companion workshop built for them.

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How the day runs

Full day, in this order. I tailor the examples to your industry before we start, so the shape holds and the content is yours.

  1. 01

    What your team actually does with the licenses

    An honest look at how AI is used across your org today, which is usually eight different ways.

  2. 02

    Agentic patterns in your sprint

    Plan, execute, verify, applied to a real ticket from your backlog rather than a toy example.

  3. 03

    Wiring up MCP

    We connect MCP servers to your internal knowledge bases and operational systems during the session. Hallucinations drop when the model can read your systems.

  4. 04

    Building agent skills

    Custom skills for your most expensive QA, code review and deployment bottlenecks. Written and committed by your engineers, not by me.

  5. 05

    Sandboxes and safety

    How to give an agent proprietary access without giving it a blast radius.

  6. 06

    The self-hosted option

    The same stack pointed at an open-weight model on your own hardware, so rate limits and per-token billing stop capping what you automate.

  7. 07

    Standardizing

    A 90-day roadmap for making this one way of working across every team, with owners against dates.

Where I have taught and spoken

CydcorCiscoEtsyCarMaxPMIAICPA & CIMAVirginia TechCal State FullertonArkusNexusIAMEPAAUX BrightonBrighton SEO
“Zach did a fantastic job with our Advanced AI for Developers session. He brought real depth around agentic design patterns and the practical realities of building AI in production – architecture, guardrails, and how to run pilots that actually stick. He tailored the content well to our audience, kept it highly interactive, and our team walked away with concrete frameworks they can apply immediately.”
- Pranav Singh, Sr. Director, Software Engineering, Cydcor

Score your codebase first

Run my free readiness checklist over your own repository before we talk. It scores how prepared your codebase is for agentic workflows and custom MCP integrations, and it tells you which of the gaps are worth a workshop day and which your team can close on their own.

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