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Essays on the Forward Deployed Engineer role. Unflattering details left in. Every project also has a write-up, most with their decisions and trade-offs, and those live under Work.
- May 31, 2026The Forward Deployed Engineer Interview Loop, Round by RoundThe first post explained the FDE role and left the interview loop closed. This one opens it, round by round, including the two rounds a pure SWE loop does not have.~8 min, with chaiforward-deployed-engineeraicareersinterviewshiring
- May 23, 2026What a Forward Deployed Engineer Actually Does in 2026FDE is one of the fastest-growing titles in tech right now. Here is what the job is, why so many nearby titles get confused with it, and what the 2026 market for it looks like.~8 min, with chaiforward-deployed-engineeraicareersmcpagentic-ai
Project write-ups.
28, each with the same skeleton: arrived as, what I did, what changed. The deep dives add the decisions and their cost.
Deep diveFIFA Soccer DSProduction-shaped computer-vision pipeline for soccer video: YOLOv8n detection, ByteTrack tracking, and a GraphSAGE tactical-graph scaffold, served via FastAPI with MLflow + DVC.Deep diveSoccer Vision ResearchModular research framework that wires four pretrained vision models (RF-DETR, SAM2, SigLIP, ResNet) into one configurable soccer-analysis pipeline with selectable fusion strategies.Deep diveWebMCP Portfolio IntegrationThis portfolio registers structured tools through the WebMCP browser API, so an AI agent can query it directly instead of scraping the DOM: search projects, read the resume, even change the page.All 28The index →Filter by stack or domain. Student work is labelled, not hidden.