Forward Deployed Engineer #10422

What is the title of the roadmap you are submitting?

Missing something in the roadmap of Forward Deployed Engineer

Roadmap Link

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

What's missing from the FDE Roadmap?

1. Production Software Engineering

• Python async/await, testing, debugging
• Code quality and error handling

2. API Engineering

• Authentication (OAuth, JWT)
• Webhooks, rate limits, third-party API integration

3. Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS / Azure / GCP
• Terraform, CI/CD, cloud networking

4. Production Reliability

• Logging, monitoring, distributed tracing
• Retries, timeouts, incident handling

5. AI Engineering & LLMOps

• RAG evaluation and reranking
• Agent workflows and tool calling
• Model deployment, monitoring, cost optimization

6. Security

• OWASP, secrets management, access control
• Data privacy and AI security

7. Enterprise Integration

• Message queues, event-driven systems
• Legacy systems and enterprise APIs

8. Customer Delivery

• Proof of Concept (PoC) development
• Acceptance testing, production handover, troubleshooting

Top priority: Cloud deployment, API integration, production reliability, AI evaluation, and customer delivery. These are the biggest gaps between building projects and delivering production-ready solutions as an FDE