We build enterprise AI agents for Fortune 500.We teach you how.

Our forward deployed engineers embed with your team to build AI agents. Our courses and trainings teach your engineers to build their own.

  • Led by Hamza Farooq, adjunct professor at UCLA and UMN, Stanford Continuing Studies instructor, ex-Google and Walmart Labs
  • 5.0109 ratings, read the reviews
Illustrative

Your systems 1,284 runs traced

AI agentRead ticketFound refund policyDrafted reply

Production controls

  • EvalsRun on every change
  • GuardrailsPII masked
  • MonitoringEvery run traced
  • Human reviewFor high-risk actions

Teams we've trained

  • The Home Depot
  • Okta
  • Tripadvisor
  • HBO Max
  • Chime
  • SDAIA
  • Jack in the Box
  • Orderful

Learn from us

Our top-rated Claude Code for FDE course and its Architect Track are now FREE for a limited time!

  1. Level 1Claude Code for Forward Deployed EngineeringFour recorded sessions with Hamza Farooq and Aishwarya Ashok, cut into short chapters. Learn at your own pace.FreeStart free
  2. CourseClaude Code for FDE: Architect TrackA course on Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect certification: the five exam domains, sample questions and a study plan, in 12 short chapters.FreeStart free
  3. Level 2Forward Deployed Engineering BootcampLive 6-week cohort on Maven with Hamza Farooq. Next cohort 14 Nov to 25 Dec 2026.Live project demoSee the cohort
  4. TeamsTraining for your teamCustom training designed around your team's needs and fitted to your stack.PrivatePlan a program

Hire us

We put forward deployed engineers inside your team. They prove one use case with a PoC on your data, then take the agent into production. Your team owns the code at handover.

  1. Embed
  2. Understand and plan
  3. Prove with a PoC
  4. Scale
  5. Hand over
  • A working PoC on your own data before you commit to more
  • Production with evaluation, guardrails and monitoring
  • On-prem, private cloud or your own cloud account
  • Code, docs and know-how handed to your engineers

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We're growing our team of forward deployed engineers. If you like building AI agents with customers, not only for them, we'd like to hear from you.

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  • A slide from Session 1 of Claude Code for FDE, titled What is CLAUDE.md, with the instructor in a corner camera

    Claude Code for FDE

    Our top-rated course. Four live sessions with Hamza Farooq and Aishwarya Ashok on building AI agents with Claude Code.

    4 sessions, 55 chapters, 7h 49m of class

  • A slide from the Architect Track's Domain 1, Agentic Architecture and Orchestration, with the instructor in a corner camera

    Claude Code for FDE: Architect Track

    A course on Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect certification: the five exam domains, sample questions and a study plan.

    5 exam domains, 12 chapters

One free account opens both. In both, ask Moment Search anything, and it plays the exact second of class that answers it.

How an engagement runs.

  1. 01

    Embed

    We work from inside your team: the workflow, the data, the systems, the constraints.

    You keepEngineers who know how the work actually runs, not how it is described.

  2. 02

    Understand and plan

    We scope the first use case with the people who own the workflow and agree what success looks like.

    You keepOne use case with measurable success criteria.

  3. 03

    Prove with a PoC

    We build a working proof of concept on your data and hold it to the outcome we agreed.

    You keepEvidence against that outcome, before anyone commits to more.

  4. 04

    Scale

    We take it into production: live systems wired up, edge cases handled, evaluation and monitoring in place.

    You keepA production system you can measure.

  5. 05

    Hand over

    We harden it, document it, and hand the code and the know-how to your engineers.

    You keepYour team owns the code and can run and extend it.

Discovery sets scope, team and timeline before we quote. On-prem and private-cloud deployments can be scoped.

Talk to our engineers

Some of the enterprise agents we've shipped.

  • Fortune 500 retail

    Retail delivery agent

    Multi-agent decision layer for a Fortune 500 retailer

    ~73%of review cases closed automatically

  • Enterprise learning

    Enterprise research agent

    Agentic retrieval for a global leadership development firm

    10M+pages indexed, every answer cited

  • Restaurants

    Demand forecasting agent

    Demand forecasts for new menu items at a national restaurant chain

    18.23%forecast error (MAPE)

  • Travel

    Destination research agent

    Agentic research with live web search, for an AI travel planning startup

    30%sales lift reported

Source: Traversaal Labs case studies. Prior engagement results; scope and outcomes vary. Read the case studies on traversaal.ai/labs

Taught by people who do the work.

Hamza Farooq on stage at Google, presenting the LLM Bootcamp
LLM Bootcamp at Google
Hamza Farooq

Hamza Farooq

Founder and CEO, Traversaal.ai

Former Senior Research Manager at Google and Walmart Labs. Adjunct professor at UCLA and the University of Minnesota, instructor for Stanford Continuing Studies, and author of Build an LLM Application (from Scratch).

Read what our students say
Hamza Farooq with three members of the Okta team in front of the Okta wall
Team training at Okta

What engineers say about our courses.

5.0109 ratings
  • ElieBusiness Lead, Data & Strategy, Digitas - Publicis

    Hamza’s classes somehow keep outdoing each other. This one was almost unfairly useful. This made the FDE role concrete. Exceptional clarity, depth, and real-world judgment. Assignments felt less like coursework and more like being dropped into the job on Monday morning.

    July 30, 2026

  • KurtProduct Leader, Consultant

    Zero to one is easy now. One to a million — deployed, cached, observable, still standing — is not. Hamza's Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp lives in that gap. Each week you ship something real: a Chrome extension that beats Google Translate, multimodal RAG at scale, a distributed voice agent that books hotel reservations, a capstone GTM system for your own company. Then you make the architectural decisions that carry it to production: caching, queues, evals, guardrails, observability, deployment. I'm a product leader, not a career engineer, and that architectural thinking is the course's biggest gift — I now design toward production from the first sketch. With Claude Code as my build partner, I built alongside a cohort of senior engineers. If you want to ship production systems, not demos, this is the course. Enroll and ship!

    Aug 11, 2026

  • RonStaff Software Engineer, Walmart

    The course will give you a much sharper sense of how to think like a Forward Deployed Engineer starting from the customer's actual problem, building something concrete fast, and then hardening it for production instead of leaving it as a proof of concept.

    Aug 9, 2026

  • MatteoSenior Machine Learning Engineer, Nike, Inc.

    As an engineer I really liked the practicality of every lesson and assignment. Each pushes you toward real system design thinking instead of shallow vibe coding, so you come out shipping production-grade systems instead of AI slop. Hamza's an amazing instructor, explaining technical concepts clearly, and his enthusiasm keeps you engaged all the time. I also really liked the deep dives and practical advice brought by each guest speaker. Overall, one of the best technical courses I've ever attended.

    Aug 3, 2026

  • SaurabhLead AI Architect, Delaware

    As an AI Architect, I've completed many AI courses, but the Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp for Full-Stack Developers stands out. Hamza goes beyond AI demos and teaches how to build production-ready AI systems that solve real business problems. The hands-on projects covered architecture, full-stack development, deployment, observability, and scalability, giving me practical experience that's directly applicable in enterprise environments. This bootcamp strengthened my skills as a Forward Deployed AI Engineer and changed how I approach AI solution design. If you want to move beyond prototypes and build production-grade AI applications, I highly recommend this course.

    July 29, 2026

  • JorgeVP Product, Relevate Health

    This is the MOST hands-on / learning-by-doing Maven experience I've taken. It connects concepts around the forward deployed engineer, using a clear framework and amazing real-world examples. The learning is dense, so be ready to drink from the firehose! That said, Hamza is a skilled teacher and explains everything from the ground up. Each session was highly engaged, with participants staying over to keep the discussion going. Thank you, Hamza, for your generosity in time, patience, and expertise!

    Aug 11, 2026

  • RaviSr Director of Engineering, Blackline Systems

    I took this course to better understand the industry trend toward the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role, and it has been an excellent learning experience. The content provides a clear understanding of what the FDE role entails and the expectations for success in it. The assignments are particularly valuable—they challenge you to think deeply and apply the concepts rather than just consume the material. That said, this is not a passive course. It requires a serious commitment of time and effort to get the most out of it. Overall, I highly recommend it to anyone looking to understand the evolving role of FDEs and how engineering is changing in the AI era.

    Aug 5, 2026

  • SamyCTO, Intain

    Its really great program and the perspective will change after you complete this program. Work on the all the assignments and pre/post reads.

    Sep 10, 2026

  • MostafaSenior Data Engineer, Ejada Systems

    This course was an incredibly rich and practical experience, packed with valuable, actionable information from start to finish. The team were highly professional and consistently helpful, and Hamza himself was generous with his time and knowledge, offering genuine support throughout the programme. The guest talks were a real highlight—insightful and genuinely inspiring, adding depth and real-world perspective to the material. Overall, I'd highly recommend this course to anyone looking to build their FDE skills, launch their own startup, or land an FDE role. It's a truly rewarding investment for your career growth.

    Aug 15, 2026

  • MarioMLops Engineer, EAFIT University

    Really exceeded my expectations. I did not expect to find a course so well balanced between explanation and practice. Class by class, the concepts are presented clearly and then grounded in exercises that complement the theory very well. This makes the learning experience feel progressive: each challenge gives you something concrete to understand, practice, and connect with what came before. For me, that was the most valuable part of the course. It does not feel like content you simply consume, but like a process where you build understanding as you move forward. It is truly worth it.

    Aug 14, 2026

  • JuanAdvanced Analytics Lead, Sandoz

    I really like the hand-on approach and the look at system design that you can build AI product with a scale and production ready view including concepts of queue, containers, orchestration, etc

    Aug 13, 2026

  • Oscar AVAI safety and civic tech, AI Safe Earth

    This is the most work-ready cohort I’ve done SWE workflows are changing, this cohort prepares you for the next generation of roles, already being implemented at many of the most advanced companies. World-class collaborators, forefront repositories to work on, and a trusted connection to the latest developments in the Bay Area tech industry make this course an extremely valuable update. It gives you a strong foundation for the FDE roles of the future, and, at this particular moment, it gives you months of advantage, especially if you’re based outside the Bay Area. Essential if you are a tech entrepreneur, a product engineer, or a software engineer.

    Aug 10, 2026

  • EvaProduct Manager, Huber+Suhner

    Fantastic bootcamp for anyone bridging product and engineering. As a PM diving deeper into hands-on AI development, I loved how practical the sessions were — building real agents, wiring up observability, and actually shipping something end-to-end rather than just theory. Hamza's teaching style makes complex system design genuinely click.

    Aug 7, 2026

  • KellySr. Product Designer, Optimum

    I really enjoyed this course. It gave me hands-on insight into what Full-Stack Developers do and taught me how to build end-to-end products that are effective and produce high-quality results. By the time I finished, it had sparked a real interest in diving deeper into AI system design and learning how to set up backend deployments properly, skills I'm excited to keep building on.

    Aug 5, 2026

  • SarangGen AI Strategist, Infinite Computer Solutions

    The bootcamp was highly practical and provided valuable insights into full-stack development and real-world engineering workflows. The hands-on sessions and expert guidance made the learning engaging and immediately applicable.

    Aug 5, 2026

  • SamyCTO, Intain

    Its really challenging and relevant program. Covers the Life cycle of full stack project with story telling, Building, orchestrating, Deploy and Scale. Highly valuable and adopting to feedback is good. Working sessions with support staffs are really great. I recommend those who want build and orchestrate - provided you want get hands dirty.

    Aug 5, 2026

  • AlokDirector Product Manager, Aderant

    Hamza's Claude Code in Practice is one of the most useful Claude Code courses out there. He doesn't rehash the docs. The focus is on the workflow patterns that actually move the needle - CLAUDE.md design, hooks, MCP servers, locking down permissions, breaking work into subagents, and knowing when to step in vs. let the agent run. Every session is built around real problems he's solved. If you're a developer or PM and want to learn about getting more out of Claude Code, take this course. You'll leave with a setup you'll actually use.

    Apr 25, 2026

  • BirendraProduct Manager, Walmart

    Built a full AI-powered product in four weeks using multi-agent Claude architecture. What impressed me most: the hands-on approach. Hamza teaches you how to think about breaking complex problems into focused agents that talk to each other. I shipped IronMind (4 agents orchestrating a daily habit companion) with a working backend and full UI. The capstone structure forces you to understand what you built deeply enough to explain it - that's the real skill. If you want to learn Claude Code seriously, not just toy projects, this course is the one.

    Apr 26, 2026

  • YousufPrincipal AI Engineer, TEG

    Hamza starts from scratch and builds your mental model properly before asking you to use anything. By the time you're running sub-agents, you understand why the architecture works — you're not just copy-pasting commands. What makes this different is it doesn't stop at concepts. You learn skills, slash commands, and orchestration — but you also see what they actually enable. You come unfamiliar with Claude Code. and leave with Sprint Zero — a cloneable kit that takes any company URL and, through a chain of sub-agents, produces a full product spec and working codebase in one command.

    Apr 26, 2026

  • EddieSr. Product Manager, One Legal

    Great instructor and amazing content!!!

    Jul 14, 2026

  • MostafaSenior Data Engineer, Ejada Systems

    A hands-on, applied course that made using Claude Code feel easy and effective. We worked through real examples, explored several recent AI technologies for building powerful applications, and dove into evaluation — a standout section with rich, practical insights most courses skip. Beyond the content, Hamza and his team were generous with their knowledge and genuinely invested in their students' learning. Highly recommend it to anyone looking to get hands-on with Claude Code and modern AI development.

    Jul 5, 2026

  • TarikProduct Manager, Outscale

    I took Claude Code in Practice and I'm extremely satisfied with the experience. Hamza and Aishwarya make a fantastic teaching duo — clear, approachable, and genuinely passionate about what they teach. The course is very well structured, with a logical progression that lets you build skills without ever feeling lost. The practical exercises are particularly well designed — you learn by doing, and the examples are relevant to real-world use cases. One thing I especially appreciated: the course is fully accessible to non-technical people. You don't need to be a developer to follow along and get real value out of it — that's a genuine strength. Hamza and Aishwarya are also responsive and available to answer questions, which makes a real difference. And the community around the course is active and supportive — a great bonus. Highly recommended, whether you're technical or not. This is an excellent entry point for anyone looking to get hands-on with Claude Code.

    Jul 1, 2026

  • AOLead Quant, Large bank

    good for cert test prep

    Jun 29, 2026

  • MatteoFounder, HeyLight (ex-Heidi Pay)

    Exceptionnal course. Support materials are to the point, and the classes and teachers really focus on getting what matters through - teachers availability is also great. On top of learning I built real life and useful applications for my business during the course. Thank you

    Jun 25, 2026

  • GiriCo-Founder, AI Unafraid

    Very timely to current times in AI. Really outstanding course and delivery.

    Jun 25, 2026

  • KellySr. Product Designer, Optimum

    As a product designer, I was already building great products in Claude using design and AI strategy, but I never quite understood how the inner workings came together. After taking Claude Code in Practice, I now understand how skills, subagents, and agent teams work, and how to build user flows that hold up. I am confident in what I build and can discuss the architecture and functionality with assurance.

    Jun 25, 2026

  • MurtazaSr. Director Product Management, SolarWinds

    Highly recommended! The course is exceptionally well-structured and easy to navigate. The standout feature for me was using Claude Code—it's powerful, intuitive, and worked seamlessly in the background. Applying it to simplify a complex repository structure during an assignment really highlighted the real-world utility of this course. A fantastic investment for practical learning.

    Jun 24, 2026

  • JamaalInclusive Designer, Jamaal.digital

    Very insightful course in the overview of the current state of claude code would definitely recommend it for beginners or more seasoned vibe coddles

    May 1, 2026

  • ManjushProduct, Visa

    Well structured hands-on course that helps reinforcing my understanding of Claude Code. Will recommend to others.

    Apr 30, 2026

  • AbrahamAutoCAD Draftsman, Butler and Associates Inc. Professional Surveyors

    The course materials are clear, well-structured, and very easy to follow, which made the learning experience smooth and enjoyable. I especially liked working with Claude Code running in the background—it feels incredibly powerful and intuitive. One highlight for me was using it to turn a complex repository setup into a simple, understandable structure during one of the assignments. That experience really showed the practical value of the tools taught in this course. Highly recommended!

    Apr 27, 2026

  • HarshaAI product manager, Immediately available

    This is has been once again a great course as always from Hamza on claude code practicals. Appreciate the support and guidance.

    Apr 26, 2026

  • EddieSr. Product Manager, One Legal

    Amazing course. Thanks, Hamza!

    Apr 25, 2026