About AIxVeda
We learned by shipping AI for clients. We built a school to teach it.
AIxVeda is the engineering school of Dhumi, an applied AI company based in San Jose. Dhumi engineers build and deploy AI systems for clients every week. AIxVeda trains the next wave of engineers to do the same.
The story
AI courses teach tools. We teach how to deploy.
Most AI courses end at the tutorial. Learners finish knowing what a model is, but not how to build something a business would actually pay for. The gap between "I understand transformers" and "I shipped an AI feature for a real client" is enormous — and almost no school teaches you to cross it.
Dhumi engineers cross it every week. They scope AI products, prototype them, deploy them, and hand them off to clients. When we started AIxVeda, we structured the curriculum around that exact workflow: a weekly build cycle, mentor reviews on real code, and a final demo with actual stakes.
Every graduate leaves with deployed projects, a Dhumi internship, and the ability to call themselves a Forward Deployed AI Engineer — not because we gave them a certificate, but because they proved it by shipping.
How we teach
Our three rules
Ship over study
Every concept is introduced through a real build. Learners write code, deploy it, and present it — in the same week they learned the idea.
Client stakes
Dhumi's engineers build AI for clients every week. AIxVeda learners work from the same briefs, so the stakes feel real from day one.
Small cohorts
We cap every cohort so every learner gets mentor time, code review, and a team demo that matters — not a certificate and a Slack channel.
The team
Mentors who ship, not just teach
Every mentor is an active engineer. They bring live client work into the classroom every week.
Vijay Deore
Co-founder, AIxVeda
Vijay co-founded AIxVeda and builds AI systems for real businesses. He brings that hands-on client work directly into how the program is designed and taught.
Harish Cypher
Co-founder & CTO, Dhumi
Harish co-founded Dhumi and ships AI products in production for clients every week. AIxVeda is built on the same workflow his engineering team uses on live work.
Nachiketh Sharma
CEO, Dhumi
Nachiketh leads Dhumi and runs live builds and mentor reviews inside every AIxVeda cohort. He brings active client projects into the classroom each week.
Sanmati Ukhalkar
CTO, Syntine
Sanmati is CTO of Syntine and specialises in AI infrastructure for startups. She mentors AIxVeda learners on building systems that scale beyond prototypes.
Our parent company
Dhumi — the company that builds what we teach
Dhumi is an applied AI company that builds and ships AI products for clients across industries. The same engineers who run Dhumi client projects run AIxVeda cohorts. That's not a coincidence — it's the whole point.
Visit dhumi.comDhumi Inc.
Applied AI company · San Jose, CA
Builds AI products in production for clients. AIxVeda is Dhumi's school for the next wave of Forward Deployed AI Engineers.
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