The FDE Academy

From curious to hired: become a Forward Deployed Engineer

The complete path — foundations, Python, APIs, data, LLMs, deployments, interview prep, and the hiring playbook — for FDEs and the roles around them.

6Stages

40+Lessons

100+Interview questions

The Roadmap

Six stages. Zero to hired.

Follow the stages in order — each one builds on the last, exactly like the job does.

How software, networks, and the cloud actually work — the mental models every FDE needs.

Scripting, automation, and data wrangling fluency: read, clean, and move data fast.

REST, auth, pagination, webhooks, and resilient error handling against real systems.

SQL, pipelines, embeddings, and RAG — ship AI features customers can trust.

Docker, CI/CD, and observability: demo environments that never embarrass you.

Resume, portfolio, referrals, interviews, and negotiation — the complete hiring playbook.

Roles we cover: Forward Deployed Engineer Solutions Architect Customer Engineer Sales Engineer Applied AI Engineer