Mentors & Bootcamps

Get 1:1 guidance from practitioners, or compare bootcamps by placement rate and cost.

An AI career mentor compresses the transition: someone who already has the job you want, reviewing your plan. This page lists 10 mentors with their current roles, companies, expertise areas, hourly rates and booking links, plus 3 mentorship platforms compared by focus, pricing and quality so you can match by budget and specialization.

The bootcamp tab compares 4 programs head-to-head: cost, duration, format, placement rate, average salary after graduation and time to job, with income-share agreements, job guarantees and money-back terms flagged, plus pros, cons and curriculum per program. For the underlying cost-benefit math, see the education ROI comparison — mentors buy accountability, bootcamps buy structure.

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Alex Chen
Senior LLM Engineer · Anthropic
4.9
LLM EngineeringRAG SystemsPrompt EngineeringCareer Transitions

Transitioned from backend engineering to LLM engineering in 2021. Helped 50+ people make similar transitions.

Rate
$0/hr
Platform
ADPList
Availability
2 slots/month
Timezone
PST
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Sarah Johnson
ML Engineering Manager · Meta
4.8
Computer VisionML EngineeringTeam LeadershipCareer Growth

10 years in ML, currently managing 15-person CV team at Meta. Ex-Tesla, ex-Google.

Rate
$150/hr
Platform
Mentorcruise
Availability
4 slots/month
Timezone
PST
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Raj Patel
AI Research Scientist · Google DeepMind
5
AI ResearchPhD to IndustryPublicationsDeep Learning

PhD from Stanford, 5 NeurIPS papers. Helps PhDs transition to industry research roles.

Rate
$0/hr
Platform
ADPList
Availability
1 slot/month
Timezone
GMT
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Maria Garcia
AI Product Manager · Microsoft
4.7
AI Product ManagementNon-technical to AIProduct StrategyStakeholder Management

Transitioned from traditional PM to AI PM. Led AI features with 10M+ users.

Rate
$120/hr
Platform
Mentorcruise
Availability
3 slots/month
Timezone
PST
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David Kim
MLOps Lead · Uber
4.9
MLOpsInfrastructureDevOps to MLOpsProduction ML

Built ML infrastructure at Uber serving 100M+ rides. Helped 40+ DevOps engineers transition to MLOps.

Rate
$0/hr
Platform
ADPList
Availability
2 slots/month
Timezone
PST
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Emily Wong
· Google
ML EngineeringCareer GrowthStaff+ Roles
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Platform
James Lee
· Anthropic
AI SafetyAlignmentResearch
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Platform
Priya Sharma
· Netflix
Data Science to MLManagementA/B Testing
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Platform
Michael Brown
· OpenAI
Prompt EngineeringLLM ApplicationsNew field entry
Rate
Platform
Lisa Chen
· Hugging Face
NLPTransformersOpen Source
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Platform

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