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- Engineering baseline (phase)
- AI foundations & first builds (phase)
- Discovery & consulting core (phase)
- Production GenAI & integration (phase)
- Client simulation & ownership (phase)
- Interview readiness & senior judgment (phase)
- Problem discovery & reframing (skill)
- Workflow & process mapping (skill)
- Stakeholder communication (skill)
- Practical coding & data (skill)
- Integration & enterprise systems (skill)
- Applied GenAI: RAG, agents & tools (skill)
- Evaluation & quality (skill)
- Security, identity & data governance (skill)
- Reliability & incident response (skill)
- Rollout & adoption (skill)
- Ownership & business value (skill)
- Hugging Face Agents Course (course)
- Anthropic Academy (course)
- DeepLearning.AI Short Courses (course)
- Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate (course)
- Databricks Generative AI Engineer Associate (course)
- OpenAI Academy (course)
- Palantir Learn (Foundry & AIP) (course)
- adityatandon15/Forward-Deployed-Engineer-Full-Course (repo)
- calmrocks/ai-engineer-notebooks (repo)
- mchittineni/ultimate-ai-engineering-guide (repo)
- bicced/ai-engineer-interview-handbook (repo)
- techmahato/forward-deployed-engineer-roadmap (repo)
- cma0232/genai-architecture-guide (repo)
- dawei008/fde-book (repo)
- AWSPU Ep 25: The New Partner Playbook: Forward Deployed Engineering with Brian Bohan (podcast)
- The AI and Agentic Frontier (Moving Beyond Chatbots) (podcast)
- Real-Time Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) project using an E-Commerce Application (video)
- Forward Deployed Engineer: The New AI FDE Job Model (video)
- The Forward Deployed Engineer: An Operating Model Teardown (podcast)
- Complete End To End AI Forward Deployed Engineer(FDE) Project Implementation (video)
- Can You Solve This Real Forward Deployed Engineer Interview Question asked by Palantir? (video)
- Forward Deployed Engineering at Cursor — Pauline Brunet (video)
- How Palantir Scaled: Why the Best Software Is Built Backwards (video)
- Colin Jarvis | Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at OpenAI: Trust. Product. Impact. (video)
- Forward Deployed Engineering 101 — Kevin Bai, Anthropic, ex Palantir & Rippling Founding FDE (video)
- How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Cognition — Jia Wu (video)
- Why Every AI Company Needs Forward Deployed Engineers | Why You Cannot Build Vertical AI Without Living at the Customer | The 10X Deployment Unlock Nobody Talks About | Pablo Palafox on Building Happ… (podcast)
- The Outer Loop (Paving Gravel Roads Into Scalable Software) (podcast)
- The Inner Loop (Prototype to Production) (podcast)
- The Last-Mile Problem in Enterprise AI (podcast)
- Customer Discovery and the Messy Reality (Solving the "Weird Tuesday" Problem) (podcast)
- The Soft Stack (Why Diplomacy is a Technical Skill) (podcast)
- Securing AI at the Speed of Engineering | DoorDash | Forward Deployed Security | GRC Engineering (podcast)
- goday-org/FDE-Handbook (repo)
- Dan-Cleary/fdestack (repo)
- What is GTM engineering? Inside Clay’s GTM strategy (video)
- Forward Deployed Engineer Interview Prep (article)
- Anthropic Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Interview Guide (article)
- How to Structure, Run, and Scale an FDE Function in 2026 (article)
- The Mom Test (book)
- The Trusted Advisor (book)
- The Secrets of Consulting (book)
- The Pyramid Principle (book)
- Writing for Busy Readers (book)
- Storytelling with Data (book)
- Debugging (book)
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code (book)
- The Pragmatic Programmer (book)
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications (book)
- Fundamentals of Data Engineering (book)
- Release It! (book)
- AI Engineering (book)
- Designing Machine Learning Systems (book)
- Hands-On Large Language Models (book)
- Solutions Architect's Handbook (book)
- The Forward Deployed Engineer (book)
- The Philosopher in the Valley (book)
- Paden Gayle 🦘 (person)
- Beth Lambert (person)
- Nagesh Kunamneni (person)
- Aiswarya Venkitesh (person)
- Mark Ajzenstadt (person)
- Alex Vacca (person)
- Greg Powell (person)
- Ali Khan (person)
- Eugen Alpeza (person)
- Sivanagireddy B (person)
- Aaron Sempf (person)
- Saravanan Palaniyandi (person)
- David Senra (person)
- Debasish Bhattacharjee (person)
- Robert Altmiller (person)
- Eugen (person)