Choose the work you want to do, turn skills into three inspectable projects, and decide where cloud or certification belongs after you have built the evidence.
A roadmap is an ordered set of constraints, not a list of everything worth learning.
All three paths share Python, Git, data literacy, APIs, evaluation, security, and documentation. Your primary path determines which evidence you build first and what you deliberately postpone.
Three primary paths
Choose the work before the credential.
Path A
AI / ML Engineer with PyTorch
Choose this path when you want to train, adapt, evaluate, or optimize models and enjoy investigating why results change.
Python and ML evaluation
PyTorch workflows
Controlled experiments
Reproducible model artifacts
Proof to build
A complete experiment with a baseline, held-out evaluation, error analysis, and reproducibility record.
Turn a defined decision into a measurable prediction problem, establish a baseline, evaluate honestly, and explain what the evidence does not establish.
02
Build a Modern AI Application
Build an application with a user problem, information boundary, evaluation set, error policy, and an explicit response when the model is uncertain.
03
Build With Production Constraints
Make deployment, observability, reproducibility, security, and failure recovery explicit enough for another engineer to reason about the service.
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