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I'm a Forward Deployed Engineer following experience doing agentic workflow automation to business units internally. Before that I was "just" a full stack engineer. And all the companies jumping on the bandwagon of this FDE title have no idea what they're doing yet. In some cases it's just Sales Engineer, in other cases it is this new hybrid thing amplified by agentic coding of solutions that are focused on automating workflows also agentically.

Now, I'm over here reinventing the wheel, but do I even need a normal resume. Job experience in reverse chronological order, stacks I used, some results. A skills section of some software and software development lifecycle I use

Like, people really want to know "how big was the contract I was on, how much time did we save the client agentically, how much money did we save them and justify our ability to make in contract negotiations"

I can do this for my own independent practice, like a website for a side consulting company I run

but has anyone had any luck surfacing that info on their resume, a new big section. or even at the expense of the other sections? like, software stack itself isn't even that important for agentic engineering. Everything's changing so fast.

Sup FDE's I know you're in here

yeah yeah the title is just mostly just a rebrand of you sales and solutions engineers, but regardless I wasn't doing this or what you guys are doing a year ago, just Lead/Staff Full stack engineer, that picked up agentic automations quickly.

and now I've got questions, because now that I have been doing FDE work for a long enough and its the hottest growing job title out there, recruiters and hiring managers are coming out the woodwork

I'm remote, and I don't go anywhere. I like this, because I can go anywhere and not take any PTO to do so, as long as i have internet connectivity and make my meetings everything is good. But MOST FDE roles are like "its remote, but there's a travel requirement" specifically not to the people I work for's office, but POTENTIALLY to client's offices for "Up to 50% of the time" but they don't even know who the clients are

I'm tempted to just ignore those roles, but it seems very common. In my current FDE role I don't travel

how do you sales/solutions and other FDE's deal with this? if I didn't have other things going on, I'd love to travel around the country on someone else's dime but right now it would hamper my style

do you just convince the client that it can all be done remotely or what

during prom night at Mixtape there was a photobooth with professional lighting and photographers

I'm wondering if those were posted anywhere already, I asked the photographer at the time where they would be posted and he said "on the website!" haha alright, lib website doesn't have anything obvious about that so that just leaves the rest of the internet and you guys!