# @awomanindatascience on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-10-10T01:55:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chinar Arora (@awomanindatascience) — https://gondola.cc/awomanindatascience

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🚀 FREE 12-WEEK AI ENGINEER ROADMAP | 2026

Want to become an AI Engineer? Save this. 👇

No expensive bootcamp needed—just a structured plan, free resources, and consistent building.

📚 12 WEEKS, 12 BUILDS

1️⃣ Python + Math
Resources: freeCodeCamp · 3Blue1Brown Linear Algebra · StatQuest
🎯 Build: Python data-analysis project.

2️⃣ ML Fundamentals
Resources: StatQuest ML · Google ML Crash Course
🎯 Build: Regression or classification model.

3️⃣ Neural Networks
Resources: 3Blue1Brown · StatQuest
🎯 Build: Simple neural network.

4️⃣ Deep Learning + PyTorch
Resources: Karpathy Zero to Hero · PyTorch Tutorials
🎯 Build: Train a network and track loss.

5️⃣ LLMs from Scratch
Resources: Karpathy Zero to Hero · 3Blue1Brown Transformers
🎯 Build: Tiny GPT-style language model.

6️⃣ Tokenization + Transformers
Resources: Karpathy minBPE · Hugging Face LLM Course
🎯 Build: Tokenizer + pretrained-transformer experiment.

7️⃣ Hugging Face + Open-Source LLMs
Resources: Hugging Face Learn · Models
🎯 Build: App using an open-source LLM.

8️⃣ Fine-Tuning
Resources: HF LLM Course · HF PEFT
🎯 Build: Fine-tune a small model.

9️⃣ RAG
Resources: Hugging Face Learn · LlamaIndex Docs
🎯 Build: Chatbot for your documents.

🔟 Agents + Tool Use
Resources: HF Agents Course · HF smol-course
🎯 Build: Tool-using AI agent.

1️⃣1️⃣ Evaluation + Deployment
Resources: HF Evaluate · FastAPI · Gradio
🎯 Build: Evaluate and deploy your AI app.

1️⃣2️⃣ Portfolio + Capstone
Resources: GitHub · Hugging Face Spaces
🎯 Build: Polished end-to-end project with README, evaluation results, and live demo.

💡 Make it work:
✅ 30% learning, 70% coding
✅ Build every week
✅ Publish on GitHub
✅ Move on only when you can explain and implement the concept

Your goal isn’t to watch 100 hours of videos. It’s to build AI systems you can demonstrate.

💾 Save this and start Week 1 today.

Follow @awomanindatascience for practical AI and ML resources.

Comment “ROADMAP” if you’re starting your AI Engineer journey! 🚀

#AIEngineer #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI #LLM HuggingFace LearnAI WomenInTech

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