FDE-the-Guidance-Book-of-Forward-Deployed-Engineer
Free Chinese-language book on the Forward Deployed Engineer role, with 165 sourced cases.
A free, open-source book in Chinese by 范冰 (author of Growth Hacker) that walks through what a Forward Deployed Engineer does — a role born at Palantir that job postings show growing over 7x in a year at OpenAI, Anthropic, and YC startups. It follows one delivery journey end to end: finding the right problem, winning the customer, activation, retention, revenue expansion, and scaling, backed by 165 case studies from Palantir, OpenAI, Anthropic, Harvey, Sierra, and Chinese practitioners, each cited in an appendix.
What holds up
- +165 real case studies, each one sourced and cited in an appendix — not anecdote-only
- +Free and open, with the full text and a PDF both available on GitHub
- +Written by the author of Growth Hacker, applying the same research method to a new role
Mind the limits
- −Chinese only — no English translation for readers who don't read the language
- −Non-commercial use only — publishing or paid adaptations need the author's written permission
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