Quick question: when was the last time you fully trusted a number in a report without quietly wondering if it was right?

A role that feels new - but isn't

Open LinkedIn and browse for just five minutes — and you will meet the Forward Deployed Engineer. Training institutes advertise FDE bootcamps. Services firms announce FDE academies. Enterprises quietly reclassify senior developers under the new banner. Postings for "Forward Deployed Engineer" and its variants have grown by an increasing order of magnitude year on year.