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Forward deployed engineers
Engineers training as forward deployed engineers on Plank’s AI FDE Course. Each profile lists the days completed and the skills those days cover. What a forward deployed engineer is.
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- What is a forward deployed engineer?
- A forward-deployed engineer (FDE) is a software engineer who embeds inside a customer's organization to make a product actually work in their environment. They write production code against the customer's real data and systems, and they own whether it delivers a result, not just whether it ships.
- How does Plank train forward deployed engineers?
- Plank trains forward deployed engineers on the AI FDE Course: 40 days for engineers with 3 to 4 years of full-stack TypeScript experience: the AI-powered development workflow, then building and shipping production AI systems, from chat and agents to retrieval, voice, integrations, infrastructure and enterprise deployment. Every day ends in a working build.
- What does a profile on this page show?
- Each profile shows the engineer's name and GitHub account, a timeline of the AI FDE Course days they have completed with the date of each, and a skill set folded from those days: the tools and techniques each day teaches, weighted by how many completed days cover them. Profiles are public and update as days are marked complete.