Forward Deployed Engineer — resources

roadmap.sh: https://roadmap.sh/forward-deployed-engineer

Books

The Pragmatic Programmer (David Thomas & Andrew Hunt) — the generalist, pragmatic engineering mindset an FDE lives by.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann) — the data, storage, and integration foundations behind real customer systems.
Crucial Conversations (Patterson, Grenny, et al.) — handling the high-stakes customer and stakeholder conversations FDEs run constantly.
The Mom Test (Rob Fitzpatrick) — how to do honest discovery and pull real requirements out of customers.

Palantir — What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer — the canonical description of the role and how it works in practice.
The Twelve-Factor App — baseline principles for building deployable, portable customer software.
Docker — Get Started — containerization fundamentals for shipping into any environment.
Google Cloud Skills Boost — hands-on labs to build cloud-deployment fluency.