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On-site or remote sessions for teams. Practical, opinionated, and built around your needs — not a generic curriculum.

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Topic catalog

AI for software development

  • · AI-assisted coding with Cursor, Codex, Claude Code & Windsurf
  • · Copilots & agents
  • · Vibe coding workflows
  • · Reviewing AI-generated code

Practical AI for everyday work

For all employees, in every department.

  • · Prompt engineering with Claude, ChatGPT & Copilot
  • · Microsoft 365 Copilot across Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Teams
  • · AI workflows & automation with n8n
  • · Fact-checking, hallucinations & safe use
  • · Tooling for teams
  • · Custom AI agents

API & testing

  • · Postman fundamentals
  • · Test automation with Newman & Postman CLI
  • · Performance testing with k6
  • · API design

DevOps

  • · GitLab CI/CD
  • · Jenkins
  • · AWS

Past trainings

Due to the high profile of many of my customers, I can't always disclose their names. Below is a selection of past trainings, listed by industry and country.

  • IT consulting · Global · Remote

    Hands-on Prompt Engineering with Microsoft 365 Copilot

    Hands-on workshop taking participants past prompt engineering basics into the techniques that change the quality of the output. Starts with a fundamentals recap covering the four blocks of a prompt, grounding in real sources, and the myths worth dropping. From there it works through task decomposition, letting the model ask clarifying questions, few-shot prompting with examples instead of rules, critique and review against a standard, fact-checking and spotting hallucinations, and meta-prompting to write and troubleshoot prompts.

  • LG Electronics Deutschland · Germany · Remote

    Practical AI for the Workplace with Microsoft 365 Copilot

    A two-session program taking participants from AI beginner to confident, capable user with Microsoft Copilot and the Office apps they use every day. Session 1 covers AI foundations — how large language models actually work, the right tool for each job, everyday use cases, and prompt engineering basics, alongside limitations, bias, and safe use. Session 2 moves to advanced usage — context engineering techniques, chatting with documents and analyzing data, Copilot across Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams, and building custom Copilot agents.

  • Remote · Remote

    Practical Cursor: Software Development using Agentic Workflows

    A hands-on session exploring Cursor across the full software development lifecycle — from prompt engineering and model selection to analyzing code, writing specs, and debugging. Covers context management, Cursor Rules for team standards, MCP integrations for external data sources, and wraps up with AI-assisted code reviews, security best practices, and the latest features.

  • Haufe Group · Germany · On-site

    Introduction to Vibe Coding

    Hands-on workshop introducing Vibe Coding — a fresh, human-centric approach to coding practices that enhances team collaboration, creativity, and flow. Participants gain practical tools and techniques to write more intuitive code, work with deeper focus, and align better with team dynamics.

  • Airline · United States · Remote

    CI/CD pipelines with GitLab and AWS CDK

    Engineering enablement program framing DevSecOps as both a methodology and a mindset, and CI/CD as a differentiating capability. Deep dive into the GitLab CI/CD platform and products, then combining GitLab with AWS CDK to deliver fully automated pipelines from commit to production.

  • Airline · United States · Remote

    Managed databases on AWS with RDS and DynamoDB

    Hands-on training on AWS-managed data stores — Relational Database Service (RDS) for relational workloads and DynamoDB for high-scale key-value and document use cases — provisioned and operated through the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).

  • Airline · United States · Remote

    Observability on AWS with CloudWatch and X-Ray

    Workshop on building monitoring and alerting into production systems using CloudWatch metrics, logs, and alarms, plus AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing. Focus on quality dashboards and patterns that improve application resiliency.

Formats

1–2 hours

Lightning session

Remote

A short, high-impact session on a specific topic.

4–8 hours

Half-day or full-day intensive

Remote or on-site

Focused deep dive on a tool or workflow.

16 hours

2-day bootcamp

Remote or on-site

Full curriculum from fundamentals to team-ready practice.

Scoped to you

Custom program

Remote or on-site

From a single session to a multi-week engagement tailored to your team's stack and goals.

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