Gradient to Production: MLOps & Model Serving

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Most machine learning practitioners know how to build models. Far fewer know how to ship them reliably, maintain them over time, and operate the systems that surround them. This program closes that gap. Gradient to Production is a comprehensive, intermediate-level program designed for data scientists, ML engineers, and analytics engineers who are ready to move beyond the notebook and into production. Across 15 focused courses, you will build the full stack of MLOps skills that modern AI teams require: designing resilient data pipelines, engineering reusable Python packages, deploying and containerizing models, serving inference APIs, testing ML systems rigorously, monitoring for drift, and documenting your work so teams can trust and build on it. You will work with tools and frameworks used across the industry, including FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Airflow, scikit-learn, GitHub Actions, and pytest. Every course combines concise instruction with hands-on labs, guided coaching, and realistic workflows that reflect how production ML teams actually operate. By the end of the program, you will be equipped to design, deploy, test, monitor, and maintain ML systems end-to-end — with the engineering discipline, operational judgment, and communication skills that distinguish practitioners who experiment from engineers who deliver.

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Course 1: Optimize ML Dev: Version, Reproduce, and Save
Course 2: Build Testable Python Packages for AI
Course 3: Debug ML Code: Fix, Trace & Evaluate
Course 4: Engineer, Validate, and Govern ML Data
Course 5: Orchestrate, Analyze, and Evaluate ML Pipelines
Course 6: Automate ML Pipelines for Peak Performance
Course 7: Evaluate, Analyze, and Model Performance
Course 8: Develop Production-Ready ML APIs with MLOps
Course 9: Deploy & Optimize ML Services Confidently
Course 10: Deploy, Manage, and Orchestrate Your Models
Course 11: Automate and Evaluate ML Pipeline Tests
Course 12: Deconstruct AI: Complex ML Problems
Course 13: Validate, Analyze, and Monitor ML Models
Course 14: Integrate, Scale, and Monitor ML Microservices
Course 15: Document AI: Project & API Writing

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Take your machine learning skills beyond the notebook and into production. In this short, practical course, you’ll learn how to turn trained models into reliable RESTful inference services, automate deployment pipelines, and monitor real-time performance like a professional MLOps engineer. You’ll build a /predict API using FastAPI, integrate it with GitHub Actions for CI/CD, and then simulate traffic with Locust to evaluate latency and optimize for a 100 ms SLA target. Whether you’re an aspiring MLOps engineer or a data scientist ready to bridge into deployment, this course gives you the hands-on confidence to deliver production-grade ML services that scale. You’ll strengthen the technical and analytical skills that modern AI teams need — automation, performance optimization, and service reliability — to stay competitive in the evolving ML operations landscape. By the end, you’ll not only deploy your own model confidently but also gain the credibility to manage real-world ML systems end-to-end.
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This course helps learners transform scattered AI preprocessing code into clean, reusable, and testable Python utilities that meet modern MLOps expectations. Across two focused lessons, learners explore advanced programming constructs—such as generators, decorators, and structured logging—that make ML workflows modular and maintainable. They then apply software-engineering principles to design standards-compliant Python packages that integrate smoothly into real AI pipelines. Through videos, readings, hands-on exercises, and a guided Coursera Lab, learners practice refactoring preprocessing steps, structuring packages using current Python packaging standards, managing dependencies, and writing unit tests with pytest. By the end of the course, learners will have the skills to build and test a functional Python package suitable for internal PyPI publishing and production-ready machine learning work.
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This short course helps you build and validate ML-ready data pipelines with confidence. You’ll start by learning how to design ETL workflows that ingest, clean, and partition large datasets using tools like Airflow and Spark. You’ll see how real teams manage click-stream logs, handle nulls, and prepare partitioned training data at scale. Next, you’ll evaluate data quality, governance, and lineage so your pipelines remain trustworthy and reproducible. You’ll work with practical techniques like schema drift checks, expectations suites, and audit-ready lineage records. Through short videos, applied readings, hands-on practice, and a final graded assessment, you’ll walk away knowing how to engineer reliable pipelines and validate them for production use.
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This course teaches you how to build a fully automated machine learning pipeline using scikit-learn. You will learn to scale numeric features, encode categorical variables, train a logistic model, and optimize it using GridSearchCV. The course then guides you in packaging the workflow as a reusable module that fits real-world ML engineering and MLOps practices. Through concise videos, structured readings, two 15-minute Coach interactions, a combined 25-minute hands-on activity, and a 45-minute ungraded lab, you will practice constructing and refining an end-to-end pipeline. By the end, you will have a polished, automated workflow you can reuse, adapt, and integrate into your ML projects or production systems.
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Machine learning systems shift over time, making structured testing essential. In this short course, you’ll learn how to evaluate ML pipelines using unit, integration, and smoke tests and how to detect data drift across critical features. You will also create automated regression test suites that compare new model outputs to golden datasets, helping you catch degradation early and deploy reliably. Through concise videos, readings, hands-on practice, and guided coaching, you’ll define meaningful ML test cases and configure nightly pytest suites. By the end, you will have a practical, reusable testing framework you can apply directly to real-world ML pipelines.
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This course helps you break down complex ML systems into clear, reusable parts and communicate them using practical abstractions. You’ll learn how to separate ingestion, feature serving, inference APIs, and monitoring components while creating flowcharts and pseudocode that guide implementation. Using examples such as real-time fraud detection and feature store workflows, you’ll practice decomposing systems and designing abstractions engineers depend on. Through short videos, readings, hands-on practice, a coach-guided reflection, and a 45-minute ungraded lab, you’ll build skills used across ML engineering and MLOps roles. By the end, you’ll be able to confidently analyze ML systems and produce artifacts that support scaling, clarity, and production readiness.
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Document AI: Project & API Writing teaches you how to communicate AI systems with clarity, structure, and precision - skills that are essential for ML engineering in real organizations. In this course, you’ll learn to document model architectures, data schemas, training procedures, and evaluation summaries in ways that support onboarding, debugging, and reproducibility. You’ll also create developer-facing API documentation with request and response schemas, examples, error behaviors, and usage notes. Through hands-on practice and a full MkDocs documentation lab, you’ll build a complete, developer-ready documentation site for a prediction API. By the end, you’ll be able to turn raw ML projects into professional, discoverable, and maintainable technical documentation that teams rely on.
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In real-world machine learning work, building a model is only half the job. Knowing how to evaluate it, explain its weaknesses, and defend improvements is what makes your work trustworthy. In this course, you will learn how to evaluate regression and classification models using the right metrics, diagnose where models systematically fail, and determine whether performance differences actually matter. You will practice selecting RMSE and MAE for reporting housing-price models, analyzing confusion matrices to uncover false-positive patterns in spam filters, and using bootstrapping to test whether AUC improvements are statistically significant. Through short videos, guided coaching conversations, hands-on activities, and an ungraded lab, you will build confidence in interpreting model performance the way it is done on real teams. By the end of the course, you will be able to justify your evaluation choices and make evidence-based model decisions.
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This intermediate-level course is designed for machine learning engineers, data scientists, and ML Ops practitioners who are responsible for releasing and maintaining models in production. Building a model is only the beginning. To deliver reliable business value, models must be validated on unseen data, compared against baselines in live environments, and continuously monitored for drift. In this course, The learner will learn how to validate release candidates using hold-out datasets, analyze A/B test and shadow deployment results to quantify performance improvements, and monitor data and prediction drift using practical indicators like PSI. Through short videos, guided coach conversations, and hands-on learning activities, I will practice decision-making that mirrors real production workflows. By the end, The learner will be ready to support safe model releases and long-term model health.
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This intermediate-level course is designed for machine learning engineers and developers who want to move beyond experiments and ship reliable ML systems. Learners will learn how to apply core MLOps practices such as version control, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines to keep an ML codebase healthy and production-ready. Learners will also design modular software components and build a FastAPI microservice that serves a transformer model through a clean, well-defined API. Through short videos, guided coaching conversations, hands-on learning activities, and an ungraded lab, Learners will practice real workflows used by ML teams in industry. By the end of the course, Learners will be able to confidently collaborate on ML codebases, pass automated quality checks, and deploy machine learning models behind scalable APIs.
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Integrate, Scale, and Monitor ML Microservices” is a hands-on course designed for learners who want to build reliable and scalable machine-learning services. You’ll explore how ML models fit into modern microservice architectures, learning to design clear service boundaries, integrate prediction services effectively, and choose communication patterns that improve resilience. The course also guides you through asynchronous workflows and scaling strategies used in real production systems. Finally, you’ll develop practical troubleshooting skills by interpreting logs, metrics, and distributed traces to diagnose performance issues. Through demos, reflective coach activities, and a realistic analysis project, you’ll gain the technical judgment and practical intuition needed to operate ML microservices with confidence.