FDEs you should know · Monthly
Deployed.
The forward deployed engineers making AI actually work inside real companies. Nominated by the industry, shipped to the front page.
Chosen through nominations, referrals, and our own scouting, with five things in mind:
Shipped. Embedded. Unblocked. Trusted. Generous.
Final picks are made by The Deployment Club.
October 2026
FDE of the month
Shweta Kumar
Senior FDE | HappyRobot
Isabel Gomez
FDE | OpenAI
Kevin Bai
Applied AI | Anthropic
Senta Knuth
Enterprise Product Deployment | ElevenLabs
Lane Versteeg
Head of FDE | Bland
James Hiester
Solutions Architect | OpenAI
Sasha Rich
Founding Engineer | WithCoverage
Dylan Barnacle
TPM | Realm Alliance (ex-Palantir)
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