03 · A career path, not just something we sell The Forward Deployed Specialist
You sit inside a client’s team — their standups, their backlog, their real deadlines — and own the line between “somebody built a thing” and “the business runs on it.” Then you train your replacement on their side and leave. Being made unnecessary is the promotion, and it is the strangest and best part of the job.
You’ll be measured onGuardrails enforced versus written, and findings per unit of new work. Both published to the client every cycle.
You won’t be measured onBillable hours, ticket counts, or how indispensable you have made yourself.
What you’d needEnough engineering depth to be right, and enough plain language to be understood by someone who isn’t.
Where you’d beKochi, placed inside client teams. Some travel, mostly not.