Audience
Senior developers, tech leads, architects, DevOps engineers, and engineering managers who want to leverage Copilot at scale.
Prerequisites
Delegates should have a good working knowledge of Copilot with GitHub, or have attended the 3 day intermediate course.
Duration
5 days. Hands on.
Objectives
A deep‑dive, advanced program for experienced developers and engineering teams who want to integrate GitHub Copilot into complex, large‑scale, and high‑stakes software engineering environments. This course focuses on architectural reasoning, automation, security, optimisation, and team‑level AI adoption.
Upon completion Delegates will be able to:
· Use Copilot for advanced architectural design, multi‑file reasoning, and large‑project navigation
· Apply Copilot to optimise performance, refactor legacy systems, and modernise codebases
· Build sophisticated automated workflows using GitHub Actions and Copilot‑assisted DevOps
· Conduct AI‑augmented code reviews, threat modelling, and security hardening
· Integrate Copilot into team processes, coding standards, and governance frameworks
· Lead AI‑assisted development initiatives across engineering organisations
Course Content
Course Purpose
Day 1 — Advanced Prompting & Architectural Reasoning
· Deep prompting strategies for complex systems
· Using Copilot to design architectures, patterns, and interfaces
· Multi‑file and project‑wide reasoning
· Hands‑on: Generate and refine a full system architecture with Copilot
Day 2 — Large‑Scale Coding, Refactoring & Modernisation
· Working with legacy codebases using Copilot
· Advanced refactoring patterns and anti‑pattern detection
· Performance optimisation prompts and analysis
· Hands‑on: Modernise a multi‑module application with Copilot
Day 3 — Testing, Quality Engineering & Automation
· Advanced test generation: property‑based, fuzzing, integration, contract tests
· Copilot for QA workflows and test maintenance
· Building complex CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions
· Hands‑on: Create a full automated quality pipeline
Day 4 — Security, Compliance & Governance
· Copilot for secure coding and threat modelling
· Identifying unsafe patterns and hallucination risks
· Integrating Copilot with GitHub security tools
· Governance models for AI‑assisted development
· Hands‑on: Secure and audit a real‑world codebase
Day 5 — Team‑Based AI Development & Capstone Project
· AI‑assisted collaboration in pull requests and reviews
· Scaling Copilot usage across teams and organisations
· Capstone: Build or extend a production‑style system using Copilot end‑to‑end
· Group review, feedback, and next‑steps planning