Forward Deployed Engineering

Engineers who ship in your environment.

Most vendors stop at the edge of your stack. FDEmax embeds forward deployed engineers who own production code inside it: scoping, integration, deployment, and support. Multiplied by git-native agents that turn AI speed into merged pull requests.

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Embedded / Git-native/ Governed

01The Problem

Modern software fails at the last mile.

Product vendors ship features and stop at your firewall. Consultancies ship decks. Staff augmentation ships resumes. None of them own outcomes inside your environment, where the real constraints live: legacy systems, compliance, tangled integrations, and code nobody wants to touch. Meanwhile that legacy estate gets a little slower and a little less secure every quarter.

02The Insight

The highest-leverage engineer sits inside the customer environment.

That is the forward deployed engineer model, and it is why FDE roles grew over 1,100% year over year in 2025. An FDE does not advise from outside or wait for perfect requirements. They own production code in the customer environment: turning vague problems into scoped solutions, writing integration and workflow code, and carrying it through deployment and production support.

FDEmax exists to give you that model without building the function yourself.

03The Solution

Embedded FDEs, multiplied by git-native agents.

A senior engineer embeds in your team and owns delivery. Behind them, our git-native agents work where your code already lives: opening pull requests for modernization, security fixes, tests, and cleanup, at a pace no team of humans matches alone. Every change is reviewed. Nothing lands without your approval.

Legacy modernizationSecurity remediationPerformance engineeringCI/CD and DevOpsSystems integrationFeature delivery

04How It Works

Three parts, one delivery model.

Embedded FDE

A senior engineer inside your repos, environments, and standups. They scope vague problems into shippable slices and are accountable for what merges.

Git-Native Agents

Agents operate where your code lives. Every change arrives as a reviewable pull request with tests and a clear description. The PR is the unit of work.

Guardrails and Oversight

Approval checkpoints, audit logs, and least-privilege access. Humans review everything that ships. Your security team gets answers, not surprises.

05Start Here

The FDE Pilot. 30 days.

One system, one embedded FDE, one month. We define success metrics on day one and report against them at the end. Low commitment for you, high accountability for us.

What you get

01A senior FDE embedded in your repos, environments, and standups in week one
02A modernization and security assessment of one system you pick
03Production pull requests merged from week two, not a report
04Before and after metrics: build time, vulnerability count, p95 latency
05A prioritized roadmap you own, whether or not we continue

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06Business Impact

Output compounds. Headcount doesn't have to.

Instead of

Hiring two or three engineers for the backlog
Waiting three to six months for them to ramp
Growing fixed costs before seeing output

You get

Modernization work shipped in weeks
Senior judgment inside your environment on day one
Capacity you can scale down as easily as up

07Why FDEmax

Built for the way delivery actually works.

Speed

Production pull requests in the first two weeks. Measurable output in 30 days, not quarters.

Ownership

We own what we ship, through deployment and production support. No handoff cliff.

Governance-first

Approval checkpoints, audit logs, and least-privilege access from day one. Your compliance is the spec, not an obstacle.

Git-native

Every change is a reviewable pull request with tests. Your git history is the audit trail.

Put an engineer inside the problem.

Tell us which system hurts the most. We will scope an FDE Pilot around it.

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