Build YourFirst NeuralNet in 12 Weeks
A twelve-week intensive for analysts, developers, and CS grads who want to ship production ML — not just run notebooks.
Maya Chen
ML Engineer · Shopify
Before Epoch
Business Intelligence Analyst, Retail Corp
$68,000 / yr
"I spent three years building dashboards nobody acted on. I could see patterns in the data that the models missed — I just couldn't build the models."
After Epoch
ML Engineer · Shopify
$118,000 / yr
"Week 5 was the moment it clicked. I went from knowing what a dot product was to understanding why it's the foundation of every recommendation system at scale."
Personalized Product Recommendation Engine
Maya built a collaborative filtering + content-based hybrid recommender trained on 2.3M user interactions. Deployed as a REST API serving sub-40ms recommendations, integrated into a mock e-commerce storefront. Achieved 23% simulated click-through lift over baseline.
Devon Park
ML Engineer — Computer Vision · Bright Machines
Before Epoch
Junior Frontend Developer, Agency
$72,000 / yr
"I was the most junior person in every room. I wanted to work on something that felt like the future, but every ML tutorial assumed I already had a PhD."
After Epoch
ML Engineer — Computer Vision · Bright Machines
$131,000 / yr
"Nobody had ever shown me how the pieces actually connect — the data loader, the training loop, the deployment container. Epoch made it one continuous build, not a series of isolated tutorials."
Real-Time Defect Detection CV Pipeline
Devon trained a custom YOLOv8 model on a synthetic manufacturing dataset, achieving 91.4% mAP on held-out test images. Built a live webcam inference demo with bounding box overlays and a FastAPI endpoint that processes 24 frames per second on a T4 GPU.
Priya Nair
Staff ML Engineer · Ironclad
Before Epoch
CS Graduate, University of Texas
$0 — searching
"My degree covered algorithms and systems. I could pass a LeetCode screen. But every ML job posting wanted production experience I had no idea how to get."
After Epoch
Staff ML Engineer · Ironclad
$168,000 / yr
"I got the offer during Week 11. The hiring manager said my capstone looked like something their team would have spent a sprint building. That's what Epoch gave me — not theory, but evidence."
Production NLP API — Contract Clause Analyzer
Priya fine-tuned a DistilBERT model on 14,000 labeled contract clauses to classify risk level and extract key obligations. Shipped as a containerized API on AWS Lambda with <200ms cold start. The project landed her a staff-level offer before she even graduated from the cohort.
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8 cohorts, 247 graduates
94% placed in ML roles within 90 days of graduation.
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Every week: 2 live labs, 1 code review, office hours.