The gap between finishing a course and actually being useful on a team, Denis Brovarnyy has seen it from both sides. And in an era where AI is reshaping every technical role , that gap is getting more expensive to ignore. Companies are no longer experimenting with AI. They are implementing it. And they need people who can contribute from day one , not after six months of onboarding. He spent years as a software engineer and then an engineering manager in Israel, building products and leading teams. He knew what it took to hire someone junior and get them productive fast. He also knew how rarely training programs produced that person. When he lost his job, he didn’t immediately look for the next one. He sat with a question most people skip: “ Is there a better use of what I know? ” The answer became AIT Technology School , and a decade-long project to build education that actually translates into employment. From engineer to educator Denis has a background in computer science and systems analysis.…