I deploy AI into real companies.
FDE at Cresta, San Francisco. My days are discovery calls, architecture docs, evals, and deployments into environments that were never designed for AI. I write about the role — and coach engineers into it.
The 90-Day FDE Path
How a software engineer or data scientist becomes a Forward Deployed Engineer in 90 days. The full path, written out.
Work with me, 1:1
I coach engineers through the path 1:1 - from stuck SWE/DS to deployed proof and FDE interviews.
Chicago → Providence → San Francisco.
Born in Chicago
Where the story starts.
Computer Science, Brown University
CS degree, hackathons, and the network that still shows up in my DMs.
Software Engineer, Salesforce
Enterprise software at scale — the classic SWE seat this whole path starts from.
Forward Deployed Engineer, Cresta
Fifth FDE on the team. Deploying AI agents into real contact centers — the job, done daily.
Turned down a Founding FDE offer
Chose to teach the path instead of climbing it one more rung. This site is that decision.