Testimonials

In their words.

Feedback from people who have joined my AI courses, conference talks, and hands-on workshops, or worked with me on their AI systems.

Selected excerpts from participant surveys, LinkedIn messages, and emails. Names and identifying details are omitted for privacy. Excerpts are lightly edited for spelling and readability, with the original meaning preserved.

Selected session ratings

4.75 / 5

Overall course rating
Building with Jev and System One Models

O'Reilly · October 2026
8 survey responses
4.71 / 5

Workshop quality
Tooling & Patterns for Reliable AI-Powered Applications

MLCon Munich · 2026
14 participant ratings
5.0 / 5

Workshop quality
Tooling & Patterns for Reliable AI-Powered Applications

MLCon London · 2026
6 participant ratings

Each score reflects the session shown, based on participant surveys collected by the course or conference organiser.

From O'Reilly courses

“It made concrete the notion I had of using AI as a type of personal assistant to delegate tasks. I thought it might be possible, and in this event I was pointed in the right direction of how to make this a reality.”

Course participant · O'Reilly Creating a Personalized Assistant with Claude Code · September 2026 Post-course survey

“The instructor (Apurva) is knowledgeable, presented the information clearly, and did a great job of handling both the time constraints and the student questions.”

Course participant · O'Reilly Building with Jev and System One Models · October 2026 Post-course survey · excerpt

“It was a good introduction and demonstration to Jev and I have a much better knowledge about what it is and what kind of problems that it can help me with.”

Course participant · O'Reilly Building with Jev and System One Models · October 2026 Post-course survey

From conference workshops

“Apurva was amazing, incredibly knowledgeable, and helped put into perspective not just the power, but limitations of these systems, and how best to manage them.”

Workshop participant · MLCon London 2026 Tooling & Patterns for Reliable AI-Powered Applications Post-event survey

“Really good session, very knowledgeable speaker, good motivation, content and spirit.”

Workshop participant · MLCon Munich 2026 Tooling & Patterns for Reliable AI-Powered Applications Post-event survey · excerpt

Messages after the session

“I loved your presentation and your tutorial. I feel like you touched the right topics for the current scenario of AI. Autogen seems super cool. I was hooked throughout your presentation.”

Conference participant · WiDS 2024 LinkedIn message · excerpt

“As a non-tech person, it was interesting to learn about APIs and the different tools you introduced.”

Conference attendee · WiDS 2024 LinkedIn message · excerpt

“I attended your session about Agentic RAG today at Render ATL and found it incredibly insightful. I'd love to connect and continue learning from your work. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!”

Conference attendee · RenderATL 2025 LinkedIn message · excerpt

“It was a valuable learning experience, and I genuinely appreciate the way you explained things — it was super helpful.”

Conference participant · MLCon 2025 LinkedIn message · excerpt

“The information shared in the presentation was very intuitive and helpful. I will be using the ChatGPT for the first time now.”

Workshop participant · Vancouver 2024 Applications with ChatGPT LinkedIn message · excerpt

“Practical actionable advice. Nicely done.”

LLM session viewer · 2023 LinkedIn message · excerpt

From organisers and clients

“The depth, clarity, and practical framing came through clearly in the feedback we received.”

Conference organiser · GIDS 2026 Email · excerpt

“We have a lot of gratitude for you to step in on such short notice and providing such clear, actionable guidance.”

AI consulting client · 2025 Email · excerpt