Chapter 12 of 12

Hands-On Project

Build your first complete MLOps pipeline - a portfolio project that ties together everything from this guide.

Build Your Complete MLOps Pipeline

This capstone project ties together everything from this guide. Build it, push to GitHub, and put it on your resume.

What You Will Build

Customer churn prediction with: data validation, feature engineering, experiment tracking, model registry, REST API, drift monitoring, and automated retraining - all in Docker.

Ingest
→
Validate
→
Features
→
Train
→
Registry
→
Serve
→
Monitor

Step 1: Project Setup

mkdir mlops-churn && cd mlops-churn
mkdir -p src/{data,features,training,serving,monitoring}
mkdir -p configs data tests reports

python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install pandas numpy scikit-learn mlflow feast evidently bentoml

git init && dvc init
mlflow server --backend-store-uri sqlite:///mlflow.db &

Step 2: Build Each Component

Each chapter becomes a module in your project:

# src/pipeline.py
from src.data.ingestion import DataIngestion
from src.data.validation import DataValidator
from src.features.engineering import FeatureEngineer
from src.training.trainer import ModelTrainer

def run_pipeline():
    print("== Step 1: Ingestion ==")
    data = DataIngestion().load()
    
    print("== Step 2: Validation ==")
    assert DataValidator().validate(data)
    
    print("== Step 3: Features ==")
    features = FeatureEngineer().transform(data)
    
    print("== Step 4: Training ==")
    model, metrics = ModelTrainer().train(features)
    
    print("== Step 5: Registry ==")
    ModelRegistry().register_and_promote(model, metrics)
    
    print("Pipeline complete!")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    run_pipeline()

Step 3: Dockerize

# docker-compose.yml
version: '3.8'
services:
  mlflow:
    image: python:3.10-slim
    command: bash -c "pip install mlflow && mlflow server --host 0.0.0.0"
    ports: ["5000:5000"]
  
  model-server:
    build: ./src/serving
    ports: ["3000:3000"]
    depends_on: [mlflow]
  
  monitoring:
    build: ./src/monitoring
    ports: ["8050:8050"]

Step 4: Ship It

git add .
git commit -m "feat: complete MLOps pipeline"
git push origin main

What Next?

ActionWhyTimeline
Write a blog postShows communication skills1 week
Add RAG componentShows LLM skills1-2 weeks
Deploy to cloudShows cloud skills1 week
Get certifiedFormal validation6-12 weeks
Apply for roles!ML Eng / MLOps / AI PlatformNow!
Final Words

You started as a data engineer wondering about AI. You now have deep understanding of MLOps, hands-on experience with every major tool, and a portfolio project. The AI industry needs builders who can turn models into production systems. That is you. Go get that role.