Forward Deployed Engineer · Weekend course

Become a Forward Deployed Engineer

Learn to sit with a customer, find the real problem and ship the solution end to end with AI.

Enrol · €499Prefer the evening course?
Dates
Jan 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2027
Time
Saturdays · 10:00–16:00 CET
Format
Live online · 4 Saturdays
Price
€499 · invoice OK

Schedule

4 live sessions

  1. 01 · Sat · Jan 9

    The FDE role, engineering foundations

  2. 02 · Sat · Jan 16

    AI engineering: models, agents, RAG, MCP

  3. 03 · Sat · Jan 23

    Build, secure, deploy and monitor

  4. 04 · Sat · Jan 30

    Startup and business, then demo day

What is an FDE?

A modern consultant who ships products, not slide decks

You sit with the customer, understand the problem and build the solution end to end, using AI at every step.

  1. Requirements
  2. Analysis
  3. Design
  4. Code
  5. Build
  6. Deploy
  7. Monitor
  8. Optimize
  9. Repeat

Curriculum

What you will learn

AI engineering

  • How models behave
  • Prompt and context engineering
  • Custom, dedicated and personal AI agents
  • AI inside existing software
  • Software factories and dark factories
  • Building factories for different processes
  • RAG
  • MCP
  • Harness engineering
  • Loop engineering
  • Evaluation engineering
  • Agent sandboxing
  • Fine-tuning open-source LLMs

Engineering foundations

  • System design
  • Software engineering
  • Security
  • Networking
  • Data, APIs and integrations
  • Cloud deployment and monitoring

Product & delivery

  • Customer discovery
  • Product life cycle
  • Software development life cycle
  • Business process life cycle
  • Demo and handover to the customer

Startup life cycle

  • Market research
  • MVP and product-market fit
  • Go-to-market and marketing
  • Sales funnel
  • Finance and accounting
  • Fundraising
  • Registering a company and tax filing
  • Zero to one, startup to scale-up

Included in both courses

  • Live online sessions, small group
  • Every session recorded
  • Build your own idea, live on a real URL
  • databag FDE certificate
  • Cohort chat and alumni access
  • Company invoice on request

No prerequisites. Coding and non-coding backgrounds are welcome.

Save your seat

Small group, so everyone gets real feedback. Want your company to pay? We send an invoice.

Enrol · €499