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LLMOps Mastery

Aurimas Griciūnas

Founder @ SwirlAI • Ex CPO @ neptune.ai

⚙️ LLMOps: From Eval Pipelines to Optimized Inference

LLMOps Mastery is a 6-week, cohort-based deep dive for engineers who have built LLM applications and need to make them production-grade. You will optimize, fine-tune, deploy, and operate real LLM systems.

🛠️ What You'll Optimize

You start with three pre-built AI systems and spend 6 weeks transforming them: adding eval gates, observability, fine-tuned models, optimized serving, and cost controls.

🧑‍💻 Technologies include:

  • Evaluation frameworks and LLM-as-judge pipelines

  • Observability and tracing

  • Automated prompt optimization

  • LLM gateways and model routing

  • Fine-tuning

  • Inference serving and quantization

  • GPU profiling and multi-model serving

  • CI/CD with eval gates

🧠 How It Works

Each week covers 5 lessons with heavy hands-on:

  • Live Sessions (2x/week, 90 min): Concepts, real-world trade-offs, Q&A.

  • Written Content: Detailed technical writeups for reference.

  • Hands-On Labs (4-7 hrs/week): Deploy serving engines, fine-tune models, stress test under load, and profile GPUs.

What you’ll learn

Master the operational layer most AI courses skip: evals, fine-tuning, serving, cost control, and production reliability.

  • Implement LLM-as-judge, reference-based, and trajectory-based eval metrics across RAG, extraction, and agent systems.

  • Create golden datasets from production data, synthetic generation, and human annotations.

  • Wire eval gates into CI/CD so bad prompt or model changes cannot ship.

  • Trace every LLM call, tool invocation, and retrieval step using OpenTelemetry across multiple backends.

  • Build dashboards for latency, cost, token usage, and eval scores. Set up drift detection and alerting.

  • Diagnose production failures by tracing a bad output back to the exact step that caused it.

  • Use automated prompt optimization frameworks to find better prompts, measured by your eval pipeline.

  • Deploy an LLM gateway with cost-based routing: cheap models for simple tasks, powerful models for hard ones.

  • Implement multi-layer caching (exact match, semantic, prompt caching) and measure real cost savings.

  • Fine-tune open-source models with LoRA/QLoRA on your own data using cloud GPUs.

  • Run DPO alignment to shape model behavior using preference data from production logs.

  • A/B test fine-tuned models against baselines using your eval pipeline, with automated rollback on regression.

  • Quantize models and benchmark quality vs latency vs memory trade-offs on real workloads.

  • Deploy and stress test serving engines under concurrent load to find real throughput limits.

  • Serve multiple models (LLM + embedding + task models) on a single GPU without latency spikes.

  • Design full LLMOps stacks: gateway, observability, evals, serving, and fine-tuning as connected layers.

  • Run real cost analysis: self-hosted inference vs API pricing with actual numbers from your systems.

  • Make informed build-vs-buy decisions for every layer of your LLM stack with real production data.

Learn directly from Aurimas

Aurimas Griciūnas

Aurimas Griciūnas

LinkedIn Top Voice in AI • Founder & CEO @ SwirlAI

Former CPO @ Neptune.ai (acquired by OpenAI)
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Who this course is for

  • Platform Engineers

    Who run LLM systems in production and need to cut cost, improve reliability, and scale serving.

  • ML & AI Engineers

    Who have built LLM apps and want to master evals, fine-tuning, inference serving, and cost optimization.

  • Engineering Managers & Tech Leads

    Who make AI infrastructure decisions and need real data on self-hosting vs API and GPU spend.

What's included

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Code-along Recordings

20+ Hours of pre-recorded coding videos that you can refer to when digging into specific topics.

Compute Credits

$500 in Modal Compute Credits.

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

12 live sessions • 66 lessons

Week 1

May 25—May 31

    Observability and Evaluation Foundations

    5 items

    Hands-on Section

    6 items

    May

    18

    Live Session

    Mon 5/182:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

    May

    20

    Live Session

    Wed 5/202:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Jun 1—Jun 7

    Prompt Management, Optimization, and Production Monitoring

    5 items

    Hands-on Section

    6 items

    May

    25

    Live Session

    Mon 5/252:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

    May

    27

    Live Session

    Wed 5/272:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

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Deploy Reliable AI Systems with LLMOps

What Is LLMOps

Learn what LLMOps is and why it’s essential for production-ready LLM applications.

Build Observability into AI Systems

Learn how to evaluate and monitor LLM-based systems to detect failures before they reach users.

Build Your Roadmap

Create a clear step-by-step LLMOps plan that fits your team’s tools, workflows, and stage of AI adoption.

Schedule

Live sessions

4 hrs / week

    • Mon, May 18

      2:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

    • Wed, May 20

      2:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

    • Mon, May 25

      2:00 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

Projects

5 hrs / week

Async content

3 hrs / week

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