Forward Deployed Engineer

Embedded delivery, customer discovery, production AI inside someone else's constraints & the interview loop

FDE Crash Course

The engagement loop, discovery, day-one shipping, ontologies, grounding, agent guardrails, eval harnesses, the integration wall, handover and the decomposition interview — animated.

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FDE Detailed Course

Thirty-six sections: origins and economics, qualification, discovery, data integration, retrieval, prompt architecture, evals, identity, deployment topologies, compliance, observability, on-call, adoption, handover, failure modes and hiring.

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FDE Advanced Course

Forty-one sections on the technical stack: KV cache and context economics, chunking, vector and graph retrieval, reranking, multimodal RAG, LangGraph, multi-agent systems, MCP, LoRA, quantisation, legacy integration, text-to-SQL, entitlements, guardrails, gateways, LLMOps, cloud and Linux, model foundations, agentic IDEs and cost modelling.

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