08 Building AI Agents: Custom Design & Development

A deep technical course on designing, building, and operating custom AI agents using agentic platforms, code, frameworks, andAPIs. This course goes beyond framework tutorials to focus on the architecture decisions, failure handling, and operational practices that determine whether agents work reliably in production.

Advanced    Engineering-Focused

What you´ll learn

  • Agent architectures: ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, reflection loops, and choosing the right pattern for the problem domain

  • Tool calling and function execution: schema design, error handling, sandboxing, permission models, and tool composition

  • Memory and state management: conversation memory, episodic memory, working memory, and persistent state across sessions
  • Multi-agent systems: communication protocols, task decomposition, specialisation strategies, and coordination overhead

  • Debugging, testing, and safety: agent tracing and observability, adversarial testing, cost and latency budgets, and kill-switch design

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Target audience

AI Platform Teams, Senior Developers, Innovation Engineers

Prerequisites

RAG course + strong software development skills

 

About Mohammad Yassin

I bring more than 15 years of experience from the IT industry, combining deep technical expertise, strong business acumen, and a proven ability to teach, train, and inspire teams. I`m both a technical architect, AI trainer, and commercial business builder, with a background in software engineering, IT architecture, and AI, as well as leadership roles as Head of Software Engineering & Technology and Head of Business Development. For many years, I have designed and delivered courses, workshops, and learning programs for both technical and non-technical audiences, translating complex technology into clear, practical, and actionable knowledge. Alongside this, I have hands-on experience building, selling, recruiting, and scaling successful business units, which gives me a strong understanding of both the technology and the commercial realities around it. My strength is helping organisations turn AI from an abstract opportunity into real capability, confident adoption, and measurable business impact.

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