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.
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.
- ✓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.
At a glance
| Duration | 30 days · 4 weeks · 1 working batch 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) |
| Batch 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 |
| Cancellation Policy | Full Placement Guarantee* within 5 days if the course is not the right fit (minus admin fee) |
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.
Crawl, scrape and transform the web through one API. Anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, structured extraction. Teaches you production crawling architecture and prompt-based extraction patterns.
An open-source observability platform that watches websites, ports, certificates and APIs. Teaches you the evaluation, monitoring and drift-detection discipline that production AI systems demand.
Tracks how a brand appears across 7 AI assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overview and others. Teaches you LLM citation modelling, entity grounding and AI-search optimisation.
A chatbot that reads a business's knowledge base, replies in the visitor's language and executes actions through APIs. Teaches you RAG, function calling, multilingual prompting and agent design.
Trusted by over 20 million Indian businesses · ₹500+ crore invoiced · ISO 27001 certified · GSTN-approved. Teaches you what it takes to run AI features inside a regulated, high-trust SaaS.
Plus VPN (QuickZTNA, QuickSDWAN, MeshWG and 4 others), 6 post-quantum cryptography companies (QSecNiti, QSecNetwork), and the India Stack (MailSetu, NamahOS). See full founder profile →
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
What you will learn — week by week
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
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
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
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.
Four working AI systems you walk away with
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.
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.
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.
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.
Models, frameworks and tools covered
- · Claude (Sonnet, Opus, Haiku)
- · ChatGPT (GPT-4 and GPT-5 family)
- · Gemini 2.5
- · Llama 3, Mistral
- · Claude Code
- · Cursor IDE
- · GitHub Copilot
- · Aider
- · LangChain
- · LangGraph
- · n8n
- · Pydantic AI
- · Pinecone, Weaviate
- · pgvector, ChromaDB
- · OpenAI & Cohere embeddings
- · Hybrid + re-ranking patterns
- · LangSmith
- · 24Observe (our own)
- · Helicone, Arize
- · Custom eval harnesses
- · Vercel, Modal
- · RunPod for self-hosted
- · Anthropic & OpenAI APIs
- · Streamlit, FastAPI
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.
₹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:
- Founder-led mentorship. Every batch is taught personally by Mr. Vikas Swami. There are no junior instructors or recorded videos. Founder time has a cost.
- Batch cap of 25. We deliberately limit batches so that every learner gets code review, WhatsApp access to the founder and demo-day attention.
- 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.
- ✓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 Placement Guarantee* within 5 days if not the right fit
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 |
| Batch 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.
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.
Day 28 — your AI product, recruiters in the room
Every batch 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.
Nineteen years of training engineers in India's hardest technology subjects
Across Cisco, HCL, Akamai, Barracuda, TCS, Wipro, Infosys and 800+ hiring partners since 2007.
Founded by Mr. Vikas Swami in 2007 in HSR Layout, Bangalore. India's longest-running independent advanced-technology training institute.
VPN, post-quantum cryptography, India Stack, AI and SaaS — including 5 production AI/SaaS products serving real customers today.
Mr. Swami cleared CCIE Routing & Switching (Oct 2008) and CCIE Security (Jan 2009) within 90 days — a globally rare achievement.
21Bill (founder's GST billing product) is trusted by 20+ million Indian businesses, with ₹500+ crore invoiced through the platform.
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.
How to reserve your seat
Apply online
Fill the short application form. We review every application to ensure the course is the right fit for your stage.
15-minute call
A short call with Mr. Swami or the senior admissions team to confirm prerequisites, expectations and batch fit.
Seat confirmed
On payment of ₹12,000 + GST, your seat in the next batch is confirmed. You receive the onboarding pack within 24 hours.
Ready to start?
Batches 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.
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30 days from today, you will be a different engineer.
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