What happens when AI meets a real customer.
Customers, data and the parts of AI no demo shows you.
Forward deployed engineer's notebook
Learn to ship
Learn to ship
like an FDE.
Bite-size lessons on AI, code and deploys, from someone who ships them inside real companies.
Four series, one notebook.
Code and debugging.
Real bugs, the fix, and code that runs.
Launches and infra.
What went live, what broke, what got rolled back.
Deploy Path
Becoming an FDE.
Skills, interviews and the career, one step at a time.
FDE
Forward Deployed Engineer
An engineer embedded with a customer. They find the real problem, build on the customer's own data and systems, and take it all the way to production.
in plain words:
an engineer who ships where the problem lives
Hi, I'm Frederik.
I build AI agents for real businesses and teach people to build their own. Here I write down what the job teaches me.
LinkedIn- Now
- Agentic AI Engineer · Rakitala (formerly Universa.Academy)
AI Engineer · SmartStartNow AI - Focus
- AI agents · RAG · WhatsApp bots
- Studying
- Master's in AI · Universitas Gadjah Mada
- Based in
- Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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