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Build Products Like a Forward Deployed Engineer
Hosted by Vinoo Ganesh
Learn directly from Vinoo Ganesh
What you'll learn
Build from real customer pain
The instinct you only develop by being in the room when things break.
Develop customer instinct from the field.
A concrete week-by-week playbook for customer calls, shadowing support, and building feedback loops.
Avoid the two mistakes that kill products
Why teams overbuild things nobody asked for or underbuild things that collapse.
Why this topic matters
Every AI company you admire, Palantir, OpenAI, Anduril, builds products differently. They send engineers into the field to watch software meet reality. The result: products that actually get adopted instead of sitting on a shelf. This session teaches you the FDE mindset so you can close the gap between what your team builds and what customers actually need.
You'll learn from
Vinoo Ganesh
CEO, Kepler, Ex-FDE Lead at Palantir & Citadel | Built Frontline @ Palantir
Vinoo built and led Project Frontline at Palantir, training 250+ software engineers to think and work as Forward Deployed Engineers. Alumni are now at OpenAI, xAI, Anduril, and dozens of leading AI companies. He led FDE at Citadel and is now CEO of Kepler (kepler.ai), the ground truth platform for AI, backed by founders of OpenAI and FAIR.
Previously at Palantir, Citadel
