Forward deployed engineering
Embedded forward deployed engineers for B2B software companies with customer-specific technical work in production.
Who this is for
This is for you if you sell B2B software, deployments are queued behind engineering capacity, and hiring alone is too slow for the customers already waiting.
What it is
Forward deployed engineering sits between product engineering and the customer. The team defines the technical problem in the customer context, integrates the product, resolves production constraints, and carries the deployment through to a usable result.
Problems we work on
- Enterprise deployments that need engineering ownership
- Customer requirements that do not fit the standard product path
- Integrations spanning product, data, infrastructure, and operations
- Pilots that need a clear route into production
- Deployment demand that changes faster than a permanent hiring plan
The work
- Scope the deployment with customer and internal technical owners
- Build the integration in the company’s repositories and systems
- Test the production path and define release criteria
- Support rollout, document decisions, and transfer operating knowledge
- Turn repeated deployment work into reusable software and patterns
What each path costs
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Your numbers, not a quote. Hiring includes a 20% recruiting fee and salaries from the month your hires start. Delivered work counts the months a team is actually working.
How the engagement runs
- A small team is composed around the work instead of a fixed staffing shape
- The engagement runs on a monthly cadence with named outputs and exit criteria
- It ends with a documented handoff to your team or continued operation
How Aravali Labs works
- Select capabilities around the deployment instead of a fixed staffing shape
- Work directly with product, engineering, and customer stakeholders
- Keep code, documentation, and decisions in the company’s systems
- Use evaluation harnesses and current models where they improve the work
- Maintain one path from technical discovery through production operation
Outputs
- A scoped production plan with dependencies and acceptance criteria
- Working customer-specific software and integrations
- A tested release path with monitoring and recovery procedures
- Documentation, runbooks, and a clear ownership handoff
- Reusable product or platform components where the pattern repeats
What to measure
- Time from technical discovery to accepted production use
- Deployment backlog completed and customer milestones reached
- Production reliability, failure recovery, and support load
- Share of customer-specific work converted into reusable capability
Questions
- What does a forward deployed engineer do?
- A forward deployed engineer works directly with customers and the product team to scope, build, integrate, and operate customer-specific software in production.
- What work can the team own?
- The team can own technical discovery, integration, customer-specific software, evaluation, production rollout, documentation, and handoff.
- Is the calculator a price quote?
- No. It runs on your own assumptions. Actual scope, team shape, timing, and price depend on the deployment.