/WRITING · 2 ESSAYS · 27 WRITE-UPS

Written down so I can be checked later.

Essays on the Forward Deployed Engineer role, and one on this site. Unflattering details left in. Every project also has a write-up with its decisions and trade-offs, and those live under Work.

  1. May 31, 20269 min

    The Forward Deployed Engineer Interview Loop, Round by Round

    In the first post I said the FDE interview loop is harder than it looks and then left it closed. This one opens it, round by round, including the two rounds a pure SWE loop does not have.

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  2. May 23, 202611 min

    What a Forward Deployed Engineer Actually Does in 2026

    FDE is one of the fastest-growing titles in tech right now. Here is what the role actually entails, why most adjacent job titles get confused with it, and what the hiring bar looks like in 2026.

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Project write-ups.

27, each with the same skeleton: arrived as, what I did, what changed, 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 orchestrates 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, search projects, read the resume, even change the page, instead of scraping the DOM.ALL 27The indexFilter by stack or domain. Student work is labelled, not hidden.