Thomas Nield
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October 7, 2025
Security Superstream: Secure Code in the Age of AI
Understand and apply AI security frameworks such as MAESTRO and the Databricks AI Security Framework Test the security of AI systems with AI red team best practices Defend AI systems from ...
October 13, 20 & 27, 2025
Deep Learning for Beginners in 3 Weeks
Problems that were previously hard for computers to solve like computer vision and audio recognition have made enormous strides due to these powerful techniques. But how do these mysterious black boxes ...
October 16 & 23, 2025
Data Engineering Fundamentals in 2 Weeks
Managing the Lifecycle of Data Projects Course Outcomes Discern and organize roles of data engineering, and how those roles impact others in an organization Manage the data engineering life cycle and ...
November 3 & 4, 2025
SQL Fundamentals for Data
A hands-on course for beginners Join Thomas Nield for a hands-on introduction to core database and SQL fundamentals—concepts that are critical in today’s business and technology landscape. Businesses are gathering data ...
November 4, 2025
AI Superstream: AI Engineering
Learn the current state of the main subfields of AI engineering, from prompting engineering and fine-tuning to AI agents Explore emerging and established technologies such as leading AI models, agent frameworks, ...
November 10, 2025
Machine Learning from Scratch
The risks of trusting black boxes, from lack of insight to complete misuse, often outweigh the benefits of convenience. Expert Thomas Nield takes you on a highly practical deep dive into ...
November 18, 2025
Demystifying Generative AI: A Practical Look Under the Hood
Hands-on exercises to build AI agents, fine-tune models, and foresee biases in AI systems Course Outcomes Be able to explain how a large language model (and generative AI) works in plain ...
December 2 & 9, 2025
Data Engineering Fundamentals in 2 Weeks
Managing the Lifecycle of Data Projects Course Outcomes Discern and organize roles of data engineering, and how those roles impact others in an organization Manage the data engineering life cycle and ...
December 8, 2025
Machine Learning from Scratch
The risks of trusting black boxes, from lack of insight to complete misuse, often outweigh the benefits of convenience. Expert Thomas Nield takes you on a highly practical deep dive into ...
Bio
Thomas Nield (author of Getting Started with SQL) is a business consultant for Southwest Airlines in Schedule Initiatives. Early in his career, he became fascinated with technology and its role in business analytics. After becoming proficient in Java, Kotlin, Python, SQL, and reactive programming, he became an open-source contributor as well as an author/trainer for O’Reilly Media. He is passionate about sharing what he learns and enabling others with new skill sets. He enjoys making technical content relatable and relevant to those unfamiliar with or intimidated by it.
Currently, Thomas is interested in data science, reactive programming, and the Kotlin language. You may find him speaking on these three subjects and how they can interconnect.