Becoming a Forward Deployed Engineer: From Zero to Advanced (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798186231080)

Most engineers can code. Most consultants can navigate a client. Almost no one can do both - and that overlap is exactly where Forward Deployed Engineering lives.

Becoming a Forward Deployed Engineer is a hands-on, code-first roadmap across 19 chapters and one continuously-built, deployed system - not career advice, real runnable code.

Inside, you'll build:
- A production REST API with authentication, validation, and tests
- A tested, documented data pipeline (SQL + dbt)
- A full cloud deployment: Docker, AWS, and Kubernetes fundamentals
- A RAG and agent-based AI system (LangGraph) with an evaluation harness
- One deployed portfolio project, a real case study, and an interview-ready story

Who this is for: technical project managers and delivery leads rebuilding hands-on engineering depth; software engineers adding AI/LLM systems to their toolkit; solutions architects targeting Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Implementation Engineer, or Technical Solutions Engineer roles; anyone who learns best by building one real system, one chapter at a time.

Every chapter opens with a real client scenario, includes full code, diagrams, exercises with solutions, and a checkpoint - so you know you've actually learned it, not just read it.

Stop reading about the transition. Start building it.