Two views of the same idea. The FDE View shows Carlos Becker's Venn diagram: the FDE sits where Product Capabilities, Customer Operations, and Business Outcomes overlap. The Architecture View shows the full technical stack with the FDE wrapping it as a cross-cutting role across the deployment lifecycle.
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FDE Layer (left)
Channels
Runtime Edge
AI Worker Runtime
Customer Systems
Business Outcomes
Governance (bottom)
🎯 You are looking at the FDE View: Carlos Becker Robles's framing of the Forward Deployed Engineer as the role that sits where Product Capabilities, Customer Operations, and Business Outcomes overlap.
Click any of the three Venn circles to explore. Click the FDE in the center to see the role itself. Click any lifecycle pill below to see what an FDE actually does in that phase.
Switch to Architecture View to see the FDE as a vertical band running across the technical stack.