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2026
What Forward Deployed Engineering actually is
Not consulting. Not a pentest. Sit with the team, ship in their repo, leave working software.
The first week inside someone else's production stack
How I spend the first days embedded with a customer team before I write a line that matters.
Shipping an internal AI platform that people actually used
Model routing, caching, and a 20% cost cut. The part that mattered was getting it into daily production.
CI/CD as a product, not a slide deck
Security gates that run in the customer's pipeline, handed off as working services.
The IDOR that leaked every invoice in a fintech app
A single predictable ID exposed every customer's invoices. How I found it, and how they fixed it.
Auth that has to live with Active Directory
Re-architecting login and session in a stack you did not choose, without a greenfield rewrite.
My first 30 minutes on any engagement
Before I touch a single exploit, I spend half an hour just looking. Here's the checklist.