Become a Job-Ready Cloud & AI Engineer in 90 Days

Most courses teach you what cloud and AI tools exist. We teach you why you’d choose one over another, how to build real systems from scratch, and how to think like an engineer under pressure. That’s what interviews actually test. Jay spent two years watching YouTube videos and buying courses — he made more progress in his first 90 days with the Academy than in those two years combined. The difference isn’t the content, it’s the method: First Principles forces you to understand systems deeply enough to build things nobody told you how to build. That’s what employers pay for.

Yes — most of our students are in exactly this situation. The programme requires 1–2 hours per day and it’s self-paced, so you work around your schedule, not ours. Daily live coaching calls are recorded if you can’t make them live, and you keep lifetime access. Tashfiq was a full-time software developer when he went through the Academy — he landed an AWS Engineer role at a top-5 Canadian bank in 3 months while working full-time. It’s not easy. But it’s designed specifically for people who can’t quit their job to study.

The opposite is happening. Every AI system in production runs on cloud infrastructure, and every company deploying AI needs engineers who can build, secure and scale that infrastructure. The ISC2 2025 Workforce Study found cloud security is the single biggest skills gap in the entire tech industry — for the second year running. AI is creating more cloud engineering jobs, not fewer. The engineers at risk are the ones doing rote, tutorial-following work. Engineers who understand systems from First Principles — who can make architectural decisions, not just follow instructions — are becoming more valuable, not less. That’s why the Academy starts with cloud foundations, then takes you into AI engineering: Claude Code, AI agents and production AI.

AWS has over 200 services, and most people try to learn all of them. We teach you the 20% that covers 95% of real jobs. More importantly, overwhelm happens when you’re memorising things you don’t understand. First Principles fixes this: instead of learning what a service does, you learn the problem it solves and why it was built. Once you understand the problem, the service makes sense. Mac came from Walmart customer service — no technical background — and landed at Amazon AWS. Alex was a helicopter pilot. The programme is built for people who got overwhelmed before.

Our average is 90 days to job-ready. Rincon got hired after 2 weeks of job searching; Alex was getting interviews by week 5. Some students take longer depending on their starting point, the market they’re targeting, and how much time they put in. If you complete the programme, finish your projects, prepare for interviews and follow the agreed application plan but still haven’t secured a cloud or AI role, you continue receiving coaching and career support at no extra cost.

Yes. I coach inside the programme alongside the Academy team, and live coaching runs every day. You can bring us your technical questions, projects, interviews and job-search blockers. You also keep lifetime access to the programme, community and coaching calls.

Our grads include a helicopter pilot, a mortgage banker, a Walmart customer service rep, and a college sophomore with zero experience who landed a Fortune 500 internship. A technical background helps, but it’s not the prerequisite you think it is. The Academy starts from fundamentals and builds up. What matters more than your starting point is your commitment to 1–2 hours per day and your willingness to do things differently than you have been.

Complete the programme, finish your projects, prepare for interviews and follow the agreed application plan. If you still haven’t secured a cloud or AI role, you’ll continue receiving coaching and career support at no extra cost until you do. The guarantee covers continued support; it does not remove the work required from you or control an employer’s hiring decision.