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The most active FDE voices on LinkedIn and X, ranked by how much their posts about Forward Deployed Engineering resonate. Working Forward Deployed Engineers get a boost; recruiters and job ads are filtered out.

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    Paden Gayle 🦘FDE

    Founding FDE | O’Reilly Author, The FDE | Ex-Google, Bloomberg SWE

    8 FDE posts · 547 engagement

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    Eugen

    @EugenAlpeza on X

    2 FDE posts · 1.7K engagement

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    David Senra

    @davidsenra on X

    1 FDE post · 1.6K engagement

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    Greg Powell

    I Help Tech Professionals Grow | Developer Advocate Engineer @NVIDIA | Creator, ThoughtfulTechy

    2 FDE posts · 920 engagement

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    Eugen Alpeza

    CEO & Co-Founder @ Edra | ex-Palantir

    3 FDE posts · 757.9 engagement

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    Aiswarya Venkitesh

    Principal Cloud Solution AI Architect @Microsoft | AI, Data and Tech Content Creator | Global Speaker | Worldwide 🌏 Ranked 4th in the World’s Top Female Tech…

    2 FDE posts · 784.3 engagement

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    Mark Ajzenstadt

    @mardehaym on X

    1 FDE post · 631 engagement

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    Debasish BhattacharjeeFDE

    Director / VP of Engineering | Scaling AI/ML Organizations from 0-to-Production | 100+ Engineers | $25M P&L | GenAI · Agentic AI · Forward Deployed Engineering

    1 FDE post · 165.6 engagement

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    Robert AltmillerFDE

    Databricks FDE | ML, GENAI, Big Data, Azure / AWS / GCP Cloud Expert

    4 FDE posts · 90.7 engagement

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    Jeswell MathewFDE

    Forward Deployed Engineer at C3 AI | Building Production Al Applications & Enterprise Integrations

    1 FDE post · 127.2 engagement

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    Alan NewcomerFDE

    Forward Deployed Engineering Manager @ GPS

    1 FDE post · 117.3 engagement

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    Jaikumar Ganesh

    Engineering Leader @ Baseten (ex Head of Eng @ Anyscale-Ray, co-led Uber AI, early Android@Google)

    1 FDE post · 210 engagement

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    Lily DelalandeFDE

    Forward Deployed Engineering @ OpenAI

    1 FDE post · 96.3 engagement

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    Toni Milushev

    AVP, AI Solutions @ Perficient | AI & Platform Strategy

    2 FDE posts · 148.8 engagement

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    Aaron Sempf

    Frontier AI @ AWS | Technoanthropologist | Architecting Adaptive, Distributed & Agentic Systems for Enterprise Evolution

    2 FDE posts · 139 engagement

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    Alex Lieberman

    Cofounder @ Morning Brew, Tenex (Enterprise AI partner), and storyarb

    1 FDE post · 141.6 engagement

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    Dr Akshika Wijesundara

    Teaching 1M+ People to Master AI | 40K+ Followers Across Platforms

    3 FDE posts · 91.8 engagement

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    James Cadwallader

    Co-Founder, CEO at Profound | Building AI for marketers.

    1 FDE post · 117.6 engagement

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    Alex Pradhan

    Advisor | Supply Chain AI Executive | Global Product Strategy | ex-Gartner Analyst | End-to-End Supply Chain & Software Planning Solutions | 2026 Women in Supp…

    1 FDE post · 104 engagement

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    Kevin Xie

    Founder @ Soren (YC F25) | MIT Math + CS

    1 FDE post · 102.6 engagement

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    Cullen F.

    Delivery & Operations Leader | Cloud, Data & AI Programs | Defense Tech & National Security | Ex-AWS & Accenture

    1 FDE post · 100.2 engagement

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    Jim Smittkamp

    Scaled GTM at Fivetran, Atlan, and Gigya (acq. SAP) | Now helping growth-stage companies build revenue engines that last | Founder, Tempo Operating Partners

    1 FDE post · 100 engagement

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    Gina Trilling

    Senior Consultant at Kadence

    1 FDE post · 81 engagement

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    Crystal Meyers

    Enterprise Data & AI Leader | Strategy, Governance, & Transformation | Helping Organizations Turn AI into Business Value

    1 FDE post · 77 engagement

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    Beth Lambert

    🚀 Senior Principal, AI & Data for Anthropic at Slalom | MBA • Biochemist | Creator of Safe to Scale™ | Multi-Cloud Certified | Neuroscience-Based Executive Pe…

    1 FDE post · 74 engagement

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    Ali Khan

    Solutions and Technical Architect | Java Architect | Enterprise Architect | 760+ Posts, 86 Big Articles | Multi Cloud - GCP, Azure , Data Tools, DevOps Tools,…

    1 FDE post · 70 engagement

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    Alex Vacca

    @itsalexvacca on X

    1 FDE post · 66 engagement

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    Benjamin Jameson

    Head of Product @ Onebrief | AI Product Management & Strategy | Defense Technology Enthusiast | Former U.S. Army Infantry Officer

    1 FDE post · 61.8 engagement

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    Nick Lafferty

    Building AI for marketers @ Profound | Founding Marketing Engineer

    1 FDE post · 61.5 engagement

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    Taylor Schmalfeldt

    Relationships at Elios AI

    1 FDE post · 60.3 engagement

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    Jack HomerFDE

    FDE Manager, Special Projects at C3 AI | Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers in Tysons, VA | Multi-Agent Systems, LLMs in Production

    1 FDE post · 27.9 engagement

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    Douglas LoFDE

    Forward Deployed Engineer @ Salesforce

    1 FDE post · 27 engagement

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    Madhu Jahagirdar

    Business Leader | Product Leader | VP Cloud, Technology, Engineering at DeepHealth

    1 FDE post · 46.2 engagement

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    Swetha S.

    Fractional GTM Leader | Certified GTM Advisor | Turning fragmented GTM into predictable, forecastable growth for $25M+ ARR B2B companies

    1 FDE post · 46 engagement

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    Sivanagireddy B

    Senior Data Engineer | 8+ Yrs | Python | SQL |Spark |Databricks | Snowflake | Kafka | Airflow |dbt | AWS | Azure | GCP | ETL/ELT | Data Pipelines | Data Modeli…

    1 FDE post · 44 engagement

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    Nagesh Kunamneni

    CEO at BizCloud Experts

    1 FDE post · 42 engagement

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    Saravanan Palaniyandi

    Director of Software Systems Engineering at Extreme Networks

    2 FDE posts · 31.3 engagement

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    Dylan Babbs

    Co-founder at Profound. Building AI for marketers. ex-Uber

    1 FDE post · 38.4 engagement

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    Jarely Willis

    Building the premier Foundry implementation partner - come join us!

    1 FDE post · 36 engagement

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    Sunil Joseph

    VP of Customer Success and Support at OpenRouter

    1 FDE post · 35.7 engagement