People to follow in forward deployed engineering
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Hand-picked people, books, articles, podcasts, and talks. Each entry says why it is worth your time and how to use it.
People to follow
Practitioners and team builders who publish how they work.
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| Person | Why follow | X | Read | Watch or listen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick WongSPE practitioner, Cognition | Unowned problems → useful infrastructure → product opportunities. | None yet | Nick Wong, Special Projects Engineer | None yet |
| Jia WuFDE practitioner / speaker, Cognition | Customer outcomes, engineering adoption, and product feedback. | None yet | None yet | How Forward Deployed Engineering is Done at Cognition |
| Leo MehrFDE team builder, Ramp (at publication) | How to scope work and decide when to generalize. | @LeoMehrunverified | Forward Deployed Engineering | How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Ramp |
| Nabeel S. QureshiFormer FDE, Palantir (former) | Field context, enterprise data, and product development. | @nabeelqu | Reflections on Palantir | How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory |
| Colin JarvisFDE leader / author, OpenAI | Turn delivery experience into reusable capabilities. | None yet | What FDE means at OpenAI | None yet |
| Natalie MeurerAgent engineering practitioner, Sierra | Domain expertise and production agent delivery. | @natalie_meurerunverified | Meet the AI agent engineer | None yet |
| Andrew NgEducator / industry perspective, DeepLearning.AI | Where customer-embedded engineering fits in applied AI. | @AndrewYNgunverified | The Batch, Issue 355 — opening letter on AI FDEs | None yet |
| swyxEducator / community builder, Latent Space / AI Engineer | Broader AI engineering concepts and communities. | @swyxunverified | The Rise of the AI Engineer | None yet |
| Eric MigicovskyFounder / educator, Y Combinator (at publication) | Discover real user problems through concrete past behavior. | None yet | None yet | How to Talk to Users |
| Jeff McMillanAI business leader, Morgan Stanley (at publication) | Enterprise adoption and the role of evaluation. | None yet | Morgan Stanley uses AI evals to shape the future of financial services | None yet |
| David WuAI architecture leader, Morgan Stanley (at publication) | Retrieval quality and expert review at enterprise scale. | None yet | Morgan Stanley uses AI evals to shape the future of financial services | None yet |
| Vijay IyengarEngineering author, Sierra | A published interview format that tests building and judgment. | None yet | The AI-native interview | None yet |
| Marc BrookerSystems engineering author, AWS (at publication) | Reliable integrations under partial failure. | None yet | Timeouts, retries, and backoff with jitter | None yet |
| Hamel HusainPractitioner / educator, Independent / AI evaluation | Error analysis and trustworthy automated judges. | None yet | AI Evals: Everything You Need to Know | None yet |
| Shreya ShankarResearcher / educator, UC Berkeley (at episode publication) | Data validation, reproducibility, and evaluation. | None yet | AI Evals: Everything You Need to Know | Grounded Research: From Google Brain to MLOps to LLMOps |
| Chip HuyenAI engineering author, Independent author | Choose adaptation and serving approaches from measured constraints. | None yet | AI Engineering | None yet |
| Charity MajorsOperations practitioner, Honeycomb (at episode publication) | Connect production behavior to useful telemetry. | None yet | None yet | Observability for AI with Charity Majors |
| Dex HorthyAgent engineering author, HumanLayer | Control workflow state and understand framework tradeoffs. | None yet | 12-Factor Agents · Unify execution state and business state | 12-Factor Agents · AI Engineer talk |
| Will LarsonTechnical leadership author, Independent author | Choose consequential work across organizational boundaries. | None yet | Work on what matters | None yet |