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Prompt Engineering Course · 30 Days · Live Cohort

Prompt Engineering Course in India — Learn from a Top AI Product Builder

A 30-day, instructor-led prompt engineering programme by Mr. Vikas Swami — Dual CCIE #22239 and founder of CrawlCrawl, 24Observe, AeoNiti, Quick21 and 21Bill. You learn the exact prompt-engineering patterns used to build production AI products serving real customers across India and globally.

Duration
30 Days
Course Fee
₹12,000 + GST
Cohort Size
Max 25
Placement
Yes, Assisted
About the Course

India's only prompt engineering course taught by a founder of multiple production AI products

The Prompt Engineering Course at Networkers Home is a 30-day, instructor-led training programme designed to help engineers, working professionals and AI aspirants build production-grade prompt engineering skills.

Networkers Home has been India's trusted name in advanced technology training since 2007. With over 45,000 engineers placed across 800+ hiring partners, our placement track record now extends into AI engineering roles — one of the fastest-growing job categories in India today.

This is not a generic "ChatGPT tips and tricks" course. This is a structured 30-day path to building, evaluating and shipping production AI systems — taught by an instructor who builds them every day.

What makes this course different
  • Founder-led instruction. Every live session is taught by Mr. Vikas Swami personally, not by junior instructors or recorded videos.
  • Built on real production experience. Mr. Swami currently operates 5 AI and SaaS products in production, including 21Bill which serves 20M+ Indian businesses.
  • Capstone project, not just a quiz. Every learner ships a working AI product by Day 30.
  • Placement support through 800+ hiring partners actively recruiting for AI engineering roles.
  • Industry-recognised certificate on successful completion.
Programme Highlights

At a glance

Duration 30 days · 4 weeks · 1 working cohort per month
Delivery Mode Live online (Zoom) + classroom at HSR Layout, Bangalore
Schedule Monday to Saturday · 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM IST
Course Fee ₹12,000 + GST (₹14,160 all-inclusive)
Cohort Size Limited to 25 learners · founder-led mentorship
Prerequisites Working knowledge of Python or JavaScript · familiarity with APIs and Git
Certificate Yes · Networkers Home certificate signed by the founder
Placement Support Yes · resume help, mock interviews, recruiter introductions, demo day
Alumni Network Lifetime access · 45,000+ engineers placed across 800+ hiring partners
Refund Policy Full refund within 5 days if the course is not the right fit (minus admin fee)
Built by an Operator

The 5 production AI & SaaS products behind your instructor

Most AI courses in India are taught by instructors who have never shipped an AI product to a paying customer. Mr. Vikas Swami currently operates five production AI and SaaS products. The prompt engineering patterns, evaluation discipline and orchestration techniques taught in this course are the same ones running inside these products right now.

Why prompt engineering, why now

The AI hiring market has permanently shifted

Three changes in 2025-2026 have made prompt engineering one of the most valuable skills on an Indian software engineer's CV:

  1. Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini reached production-grade reliability. Indian software product teams at Razorpay, Cred, Swiggy, Flipkart, Zerodha and across BFSI now ship features built on LLMs every week. Engineers who can design, evaluate and ship those features are being prioritised in hiring.
  2. Claude Code and agentic AI tooling became real. Engineering teams now expect new hires to be productive with AI-assisted coding from Day 1. Knowing how to drive these tools well is the difference between a 1x and a 5x engineer.
  3. AI engineering roles entered the Indian salary band. Companies are now hiring AI engineers, prompt engineers, LLMOps engineers and AI product builders at ₹15-45 LPA for mid-level positions, with senior AI consultants commanding ₹60 LPA and above.

The catch — most online courses are still teaching what was relevant 18 months ago. ChatGPT tip-and-trick courses, generic "Intro to AI" curricula and pre-recorded Udemy videos do not prepare anyone for shipping production AI features.

What hiring managers now screen for, and what this course covers:

  • Prompt evaluation and regression testing
  • Multi-model orchestration and cost management
  • RAG architecture and retrieval quality
  • Agentic workflows with function calling
  • AI observability and drift detection
  • Guardrails and AI safety patterns
  • Production deployment of AI features

This 30-day course covers all seven, anchored to real product examples from Mr. Swami's portfolio.

Curriculum · 30 days · 4 weeks

What you will learn — week by week

Week 1 · Days 1-7

Foundations of prompt engineering

  • · Prompt anatomy, context windows, model selection
  • · System prompts, few-shot examples, structured output
  • · Temperature, top-p and sampling — when each matters
  • · Function calling and strict JSON output modes
  • · Token economics and cost-aware model routing
  • · Lab — extracting structured data from a website (mirrors CrawlCrawl's core pattern)
  • · Capstone Q&A with Mr. Swami
Week 2 · Days 8-14

Evaluation, observability and reliability

  • · Building evaluation harnesses for prompts
  • · LLM-as-judge patterns and pitfalls
  • · Regression testing across model upgrades
  • · Drift detection in production AI systems
  • · Cost and latency observability
  • · Lab — build a mini observability dashboard for your AI calls (mirrors 24Observe)
  • · Capstone Q&A with Mr. Swami
Week 3 · Days 15-21 · ⚡ Production AI

RAG, agents and multi-model orchestration

  • · Vector databases and embedding selection
  • · RAG architectures — naive, hybrid, re-ranked
  • · Agentic loops, state and memory
  • · Multi-tool orchestration with LangGraph
  • · Guardrails and safety patterns
  • · Lab — build a RAG system over a real corpus (mirrors Quick21)
  • · Capstone Q&A with Mr. Swami
Week 4 · Days 22-30 · 🚀 Capstone

Ship your own AI product

  • · Idea selection and scoping a 1-week AI build
  • · System design with Claude Code, live with Mr. Swami
  • · Build days — Days 24-26 with one-on-one office hours
  • · Deployment, monitoring and cost control
  • · Day 28 — Demo Day, recruiters attending
  • · Days 29-30 — interview prep and placement workflow
  • · Certificate of completion + alumni network entry

Every week ends with a working project, not a quiz.

By Day 30, every learner has built and shipped four working systems: a prompt evaluation harness, a multi-model orchestrator, a RAG application and a capstone AI product. All four are yours to keep, deploy and showcase to employers.

Deliverables

Four working AI systems you walk away with

Deliverable 1

Prompt Evaluation Harness

A small but production-shape evaluation framework you can use on any prompt — regression tests, LLM-as-judge scoring, and cost tracking. Modelled on the same discipline that powers 24Observe.

Deliverable 2

Multi-Model Orchestrator

A router that calls Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini based on task type and budget. Includes fallback handling, response normalisation and cost telemetry.

Deliverable 3

Retrieval-Augmented Generation System

A RAG pipeline over your own corpus — document chunking, embedding generation, vector storage, hybrid retrieval and re-ranking. The pattern behind Quick21's knowledge-base answering.

Deliverable 4 · Capstone

A Deployable AI Agent

Your capstone project — an AI agent with function calling, state and memory, deployed to a live URL. You present this on Demo Day to recruiters from our hiring partner network.

Tools & Stack

Models, frameworks and tools covered

Large Language Models
  • · Claude (Sonnet, Opus, Haiku)
  • · ChatGPT (GPT-4 and GPT-5 family)
  • · Gemini 2.5
  • · Llama 3, Mistral
AI Coding & IDEs
  • · Claude Code
  • · Cursor IDE
  • · GitHub Copilot
  • · Aider
Orchestration Frameworks
  • · LangChain
  • · LangGraph
  • · n8n
  • · Pydantic AI
RAG Infrastructure
  • · Pinecone, Weaviate
  • · pgvector, ChromaDB
  • · OpenAI & Cohere embeddings
  • · Hybrid + re-ranking patterns
Observability & Eval
  • · LangSmith
  • · 24Observe (our own)
  • · Helicone, Arize
  • · Custom eval harnesses
Deployment
  • · Vercel, Modal
  • · RunPod for self-hosted
  • · Anthropic & OpenAI APIs
  • · Streamlit, FastAPI
Who Should Enrol

Designed for builders, not beginners

This course is right for you if…

  • You are a software engineer with working Python or JavaScript skills
  • You are an IT professional transitioning into AI engineering
  • You are a recent computer science graduate planning an AI career
  • You are a working developer who needs to ship AI features at your job
  • You are a freelancer adding AI engineering to your service offering
  • You can commit 2 hours per evening for 30 days

This course is not for you if…

  • You have never written code. A programming foundation is required before this course.
  • You want a 6-month self-paced curriculum. Our pace is intensive.
  • You are only looking for ChatGPT tips. This is a production-engineering course.
  • You want a certificate without doing the capstone. We do not issue those.
  • You are looking for the cheapest option in the market. Free and ₹2,999 courses exist and may suit your stage better.
About the Fee

₹12,000 + GST — affordable, founder-led, no compromise

The course fee is ₹12,000 + GST = ₹14,160 all-inclusive. We are aware this is higher than ₹2,999 self-paced courses and well below ₹40,000+ IIT-affiliated certificates. The pricing is deliberate.

Three reasons the fee is what it is:

  1. Founder-led mentorship. Every cohort is taught personally by Mr. Vikas Swami. There are no junior instructors or recorded videos. Founder time has a cost.
  2. Cohort cap of 25. We deliberately limit batches so that every learner gets code review, WhatsApp access to the founder and demo-day attention.
  3. Institutional backing. You are learning at a 19-year-old institute with 45,000+ placed engineers and an 800+ partner hiring network — not from an unknown online instructor.
What ₹14,160 includes
  • 60 hours of live instruction (Mon-Sat, 2 hrs × 30 days)
  • Founder mentorship — direct WhatsApp access during 30 days
  • 4 weekly capstone Q&A sessions with Mr. Swami
  • Personal code review on every project
  • Demo Day with recruiters in attendance
  • Certificate of completion signed by the founder
  • Lifetime alumni network access
  • Placement support through 800+ hiring partners
  • Full refund within 5 days if not the right fit
Hourly cost: ₹14,160 ÷ 60 hours of live instruction = ₹236 per hour. A 1-on-1 founder consultation at our standard rate is multiples of this.
Compare

How this course compares to alternatives

Feature Coursera Plus Internshala Great Learning Free Networkers Home
Instructor University faculty Course producers Rotating instructors Vikas Swami, founder of 5 AI products
Duration 3-6 months 8 weeks Self-paced 30 days intensive
Fee ~₹3,500/month ₹2,999 Free ₹12,000 + GST
Live sessions No Limited No Daily, live, with founder
Cohort cap Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 25 max
Founder WhatsApp access No No No Yes, throughout 30 days
Capstone Quiz / assignment Project None Shipped AI product
Placement support No "Assistance" No 800+ hiring partners
Built on real products No No No Yes — 5 production AI/SaaS

Each course is the right fit for a different learner. If you want a 6-month self-paced library, Coursera works well. If you want a free certificate to add to LinkedIn, Great Learning has those. This course is for learners who want founder access, a 30-day path to shipping a working AI product, and the institutional backing of India's largest cybersecurity placement engine.

Placement Support

From 45,000 networking placements to a growing AI engineering pipeline

Networkers Home has placed over 45,000 engineers across 800+ hiring partners over its eighteen-year operating history — Cisco, HCL, Akamai, Barracuda, Aryaka, Movate, TCS, Wipro, Infosys and more. That recruiter network is now actively asking us for AI engineers.

What you receive as part of placement support:

  • Resume preparation and AI portfolio review
  • Mock interviews with senior NH instructors
  • Direct introductions to recruiters in the 800+ partner network
  • Demo Day attendance from active recruiting partners
  • Lifetime access to the NH alumni placement channel

An honest note on placement

We provide placement support, not a placement guarantee. Any institute that guarantees a job on day 31 of an AI course is being dishonest with you — the AI hiring market does not work that way.

What we honestly observe in practice: learners who ship a strong capstone project on Demo Day typically receive 3-5 recruiter introductions within 30 days of completion. Learners whose capstone is weak receive fewer.

The quality of your placement outcome depends on the effort you put into your capstone. We will give you the network, the mentorship and the launching pad. You ship the work.

Capstone & Demo Day

Day 28 — your AI product, recruiters in the room

Every cohort ends with Demo Day. On Day 28, every learner presents a working AI product they have built during the programme — deployed, live and demo-able.

Recruiters from our partner network attend Demo Day either in person at the HSR Layout campus or remotely on the live call. Some past learners have had products picked up as freelance contracts on the same day. Others have walked out with interview slots scheduled for the following week.

Demo Day is also when you formally enter the Networkers Home AI Alumni Network — a Telegram + WhatsApp community of AI engineers, founders and product builders graduated from the programme.

What a Demo Day project looks like

  • · An AI agent that automates a real workflow you currently do manually
  • · A domain-specific RAG product over a corpus you have access to (legal documents, support tickets, product manuals)
  • · A multi-model orchestrator that solves a real problem more cheaply than a single-model call
  • · A prompt-engineered SaaS micro-feature that you could ship inside an existing product at your job
  • · A developer tool, internal copilot, or knowledge assistant for a specific industry

Scope is intentionally small — 30 days is not enough to build a full product. We coach you to ship something narrow, complete and demonstrable.

Why Networkers Home

Nineteen years of training engineers in India's hardest technology subjects

45,000+
Engineers Placed

Across Cisco, HCL, Akamai, Barracuda, TCS, Wipro, Infosys and 800+ hiring partners since 2007.

19 yrs
Operating History

Founded by Mr. Vikas Swami in 2007 in HSR Layout, Bangalore. India's longest-running independent advanced-technology training institute.

22
Founder Ventures

VPN, post-quantum cryptography, India Stack, AI and SaaS — including 5 production AI/SaaS products serving real customers today.

Dual
CCIE #22239

Mr. Swami cleared CCIE Routing & Switching (Oct 2008) and CCIE Security (Jan 2009) within 90 days — a globally rare achievement.

20M+
21Bill Users

21Bill (founder's GST billing product) is trusted by 20+ million Indian businesses, with ₹500+ crore invoiced through the platform.

HSR
Layout, Bangalore

Walk-in campus at L-149, Sector 6, HSR Layout. You are welcome to visit, attend a free demo class or meet the founder in person.

Enrolment

How to reserve your seat

1

Apply online

Fill the short application form. We review every application to ensure the course is the right fit for your stage.

2

15-minute call

A short call with Mr. Swami or the senior admissions team to confirm prerequisites, expectations and cohort fit.

3

Seat confirmed

On payment of ₹12,000 + GST, your seat in the next cohort is confirmed. You receive the onboarding pack within 24 hours.

Ready to start?

Cohorts are capped at 25 learners and typically fill within days. If you have read this far, you already know whether this course is for you.

Walk-in: L-149, Sector 6, HSR Layout, Bengaluru 560102. Free demo class available on request.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Who teaches the Prompt Engineering Course at Networkers Home? +
The course is led by Mr. Vikas Swami, Founder of Networkers Home and Dual CCIE #22239. He is also the founder of CrawlCrawl (web crawling API), 24Observe (open-source observability), AeoNiti (AI search observability), Quick21 (AI chatbot platform) and 21Bill (GST billing software trusted by 20M+ Indian businesses). Every live session is delivered personally by Mr. Swami.
How is this Prompt Engineering Course different from Coursera, Udemy or Great Learning? +
Most online courses are pre-recorded and taught by curriculum committees. This course is a 30-day live cohort, capped at 25 learners, taught directly by a founder who has shipped five production AI products. You learn the prompt-engineering patterns being used in live systems today — not last year's textbook material.
What is the fee for the Prompt Engineering Course at Networkers Home? +
The course fee is ₹12,000 + GST, which works out to ₹14,160 all-inclusive. This includes 30 days of live training, founder mentorship, capstone project supervision, demo day, certificate of completion, and lifetime alumni network access with placement support.
Do I need prior programming experience to enrol? +
Yes. The course is designed for learners with working knowledge of Python or JavaScript. If you can write basic functions, work with APIs and use Git, you are ready. The course is not suitable for complete beginners to programming — we recommend completing a Python foundation course first.
Is the Prompt Engineering Course online or classroom-based? +
Both. Live sessions are delivered on Zoom every weekday evening. Learners in Bangalore are welcome to attend in person at our HSR Layout campus. The format, instructor and curriculum are identical across both modes.
What is the duration and time commitment for the course? +
The course runs for 30 days. Live classes are held Monday to Saturday, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM IST. Plan for an additional 1-2 hours of practice and lab work each day. Total time commitment is approximately 90-100 hours over the 30-day period.
What is the cohort size? +
Each cohort is capped at 25 learners. This cap exists so that Mr. Swami can personally review every learner's code, give individual feedback, and remain accessible on WhatsApp throughout the 30 days. Cohorts typically fill within days of opening.
Will I receive a certificate of completion? +
Yes. On successful completion of the 30-day programme and the capstone project, learners receive a Networkers Home certificate of completion, signed by Mr. Vikas Swami. The certificate is recognised across the Networkers Home hiring partner network of 800+ employers.
What kind of placement assistance is provided? +
Placement support includes resume preparation, mock interviews, AI portfolio review, and direct introductions to recruiters from our 800+ hiring partner network. Demo Day on Day 28 is attended by recruiting partners. Networkers Home has placed 45,000+ engineers across India over its eighteen-year operating history, including at Cisco, HCL, Akamai, TCS, Wipro and Infosys.
What will I actually build during this Prompt Engineering Course? +
Over the 30 days you will build four deliverables: a prompt evaluation harness, a multi-model orchestrator that routes between Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system over your own data, and a deployable AI agent as your capstone project. All four are yours to keep and showcase to employers.
Which AI tools, models and frameworks are covered? +
Claude (Sonnet, Opus, Haiku), ChatGPT (GPT-4 and GPT-5 family), Gemini 2.5, Llama 3 and Mistral. Coding tools include Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Aider. Frameworks include LangChain, LangGraph, n8n and Pydantic AI. RAG infrastructure covers Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector and ChromaDB. Observability includes LangSmith and 24Observe.
Why is this course priced higher than free or ₹2,999 online courses? +
Free and budget-priced courses are typically self-paced video libraries without instructor access. This course is a live 30-day cohort with direct mentorship from a founder operating five production AI products. The cohort cap of 25 means personalised feedback at every stage. The price reflects the level of access and the institutional track record behind it.
Is there a refund policy? +
Yes. The first five days are an evaluation window. If the course is not the right fit for you by Day 5, a full refund (minus a nominal administrative fee) will be issued. After Day 5, refunds are not available as mentor capacity has been committed to your seat.
When does the next cohort start? +
We open one cohort per month. Exact start date for the upcoming cohort is shared on application. Seats are confirmed on a first-paid-first-served basis after a 15-minute application call with Mr. Swami or the senior admissions team.
Will I get a job after completing the Prompt Engineering Course? +
Placement support is included and our 800+ hiring partner network is actively recruiting for AI engineering roles. However, an actual placement depends on the quality of your capstone project and your interview performance. Strong capstone builds typically receive 3-5 recruiter introductions within 30 days of completion. We are transparent about this rather than promising a guaranteed job.

30 days from today, you will be a different engineer.

A live cohort. A founder who ships AI products every day. Twenty-four other builders alongside you. A capstone you can take to any hiring manager. Apply for the next cohort below.