Consulting / FDE
An embedded engineer, fixed hours every week, working alongside your team
Forward Deployed Engineer: a fixed number of hours each week inside your project, doing architecture, writing the critical code and helping your team adopt AI and automation. Suits startup projects whose specs are still moving.
A good fit when
- Products whose specs change as you go
- Want to adopt AI or automation but don't know where to start
- Need a senior engineer to fill a gap or make technical calls
Not a fit when
- Work that needs a single fixed price and deliverable (see Custom development)
- A full-time, on-site, eight-hours-a-day position
What you get
- 01Weekly work log and decision record
- 02Code and architecture docs that go straight into your repo
- 03A results review before each settlement
Related work
Systems we run ourselves or have published that are the same kind of thing as this service.
Consulting / FDE
Kubernetes, simplified: our deployment platform
Kubernetes wrapped into a platform where pushing code is the deployment. Builds, the image registry, Helm releases and SSO are already wired up; a new service is one chart folder, and developers never touch kubectl. More than thirty of our own services run on it, and client projects use the same setup, in your own cloud account or on a cloud server bought on your behalf.
- Push to main and it ships: self-hosted GitHub Actions runners to Harbor to Helm GitOps
- A new service is one chart folder, synced by v-terminal; no hand-typed kubectl
RKE2 · Helm · Harbor · Keycloak · Cloudflare · frp
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