AI Engineering Roadmap

Systematic progression from foundational LLM integrations to advanced agentic workflows and security engineering.

01Vision & Multi-modal
Completed

App 01: Smart Inspector

Multi-modal vision analysis, image tags, captions, object detection, OCR transcription via Azure OpenAI. Includes EXIF stripping & magic bytes image validation.

02Conversational AI & RAG
Completed

App 02: Support Bot

Healthcare billing support assistant with Azure AI Language NLP, PII data masking, and grounded FAQ retrieval isolated with prompt injection XML tags.

03Prompt Engineering & Content Gen
Completed

App 03: Prompt Forge

Structured content generation workbench with Azure Content Safety filtering, persona tuning, SSE real-time streaming, and client-side history.

SECSecurity & Standards
Completed

Security Baseline & Standards

Monorepo public release audit, secrets scanning, Gitleaks CI, CodeQL analysis, standard FastAPI & Next.js starter templates, and deployment isolation.

04Vector DBs & Local RAG
In Progress

App 04: Pocket RAG

Local document grounding with vector embeddings, semantic search, hybrid retrieval, and chunking strategy evaluation.

05Autonomous Agents
Completed

App 05: Agentic Workflow

Autonomous agent execution loop, multi-tool calling, state machine persistence, and human-in-the-loop validation.