Some challenges are too important for occasional advisory and too urgent for a 90-day hiring cycle. That’s where Forward Deployed Engineering fits.
Cloud migrations, platform transformations, reliability initiatives, or modernization programs often require expertise that doesn’t exist internally.
The roadmap is moving faster than recruitment. Waiting months for the perfect hire isn’t always an option.
Kubernetes adoption, platform engineering, AI infrastructure, and DevOps modernization require experienced judgment, not trial and error.
Most consulting ends with a handoff. Embedded engineers transfer knowledge through daily collaboration and real-world execution.
Engineering leaders are expected to move faster despite talent shortages, growing complexity, and rising expectations.
Our engineers don’t sit on the sidelines. They embed with your team, solve problems directly, and stay accountable for outcomes.
Delivers recommendations
Produces documentation
Operates externally
Advises on implementation
Delivers working systems
Contributes inside your repositories
Joins your Slack and standups
Solves problems alongside your team
Every engagement starts with understanding what’s blocked, what’s at risk, and what success looks like.
Identify delivery bottlenecks, operational risks, and unresolved technical challenges.
Map ownership, skill gaps, decision-making paths, and accountability.
Define measurable outcomes, milestones, and delivery expectations.
Assess current architecture, tooling, processes, and operational maturity.
Understand documentation, training needs, and long-term team ownership.
Align on responsibilities, collaboration style, and engineering support needs.
Engineer profile recommendation
Engagement scope
Knowledge transfer objectives
Delivery roadmap
Timeline
We embed fast, solve real problems, and ensure your team can confidently own the outcome.
The engineer joins your standups, reviews architecture, understands workflows, and gains context before making recommendations.
Deliverable: Context assessment and 30-60-90 day execution plan.
Visible improvements are delivered early to remove bottlenecks and establish momentum.
Deliverable: First measurable improvements within the first month.
The engineer leads the migration, transformation, platform buildout, reliability initiative, or modernization effort that drove the engagement.
Deliverable: Primary business and engineering objectives achieved.
Knowledge, ownership, and operational responsibility move progressively back to your internal team.
Deliverable: Documentation, runbooks, architecture records, and team enablement.
Get immediate execution, faster delivery, and lasting capability transfer without waiting months for the right hire.
The goal isn’t to produce recommendations. It’s to leave your organization stronger than we found it.
We assign engineers with the right experience and give them access to Techanek specialists when deeper expertise is needed.
This isn't filling a seat. It's bringing experienced engineers who contribute judgment, execution, and proven delivery patterns.
Documentation, runbooks, architectural decisions, and hands-on enablement are built into every engagement.
From focused three-month engagements to long-term transformation programs, we scale involvement based on your needs.
Honest answers to the questions that matter before you commit to a project, platform, or transformation.
Traditional consulting delivers recommendations, roadmaps, and systems. Forward Deployed Engineering delivers those outcomes while embedding directly into your team. Our engineers work inside your workflows, code reviews, and architectural discussions, ensuring knowledge transfer happens throughout the engagement, not just at handoff.
Most FDEs deliver their first meaningful outcomes within the first two weeks. Week one focuses on understanding your environment and team. Week two is typically where the first quick wins and high-impact improvements start shipping.
Our minimum engagement is three months. This gives the engineer enough time to understand your environment, deliver meaningful outcomes, and transfer knowledge effectively to your team. For shorter initiatives, a focused consulting engagement is usually a better fit.
Yes. Many engagements begin with a single embedded engineer and expand into a small team for larger transformation programs. We can also transition from full-time embedding to an advisory model once the primary objectives are achieved.
Real projects evolve, and so do priorities. When requirements change, we review the impact, align on timelines and deliverables, document the adjustments, and keep moving. The goal is solving the problem, not creating process overhead.
Improve delivery speed & engineering efficiency
Run containers securely and at scale
Build internal platforms that developers love
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