CAREER PATH · AI Engineer
Move beyond a chat wrapper and prove evaluation discipline.
Show retrieval, data handling, evaluation, observability and cost/latency tradeoffs around AI systems.
PythonLLMsRetrievalEvaluationData pipelinesObservability
RECOMMENDED PROJECTS
Build evidence, not filler.
Choose one project you can finish, deploy and explain deeply. Quality of proof matters more than collecting ten unfinished repos.
Advanced2–3 weekends
RAG Evaluation Workbench
Build a retrieval-augmented generation app that measures quality instead of stopping at a chat demo.
LLM integrationRetrievalEvaluationPrompt designData pipelinesObservability
Open project brief →Intermediate1–2 weekends
Production API + Rate Limiter
Ship a real API with authentication, persistence, Redis-backed throttling, tests, monitoring and a deployable production path.
API designPostgreSQLRedisDockerTestingObservability
Open project brief →Make the project visible.
After you ship it, use the rest of SkillChirp to get discovery, validation and feedback instead of leaving the work hidden in a repository.