PATHS
Choose a destination,
not a pile of content.
Start from your current role and the technical boundary you want to own. Every path reuses the same rigorous learning assets and ends in evidence.
New to the role? Start with the guided path. It explains what an FDE does before it asks you anything.
ENTRY JOURNEYS
Software / AI Engineer → FDE
Add discovery, production judgment, field communication, and evidence to your engineering base.
3 milestones →02Solutions Architect / SE → FDE
Build coding depth, failure reasoning, stateful systems, evaluation, and reproducible proof.
3 milestones →03Existing FDE → Senior FDE
Practice architecture judgment, portfolio patterns, executive communication, and turning field learning into product improvements.
3 milestones →SPECIALIZATIONS
Agent / Application FDE
DEPLOYSAI applications and agent workflowsIntegrate AI applications with tools, state, context, evals, security, and operational ownership.
Explore →02Enterprise / Platform FDE
DEPLOYSPlatforms, data models, integrations, and operational workflowsAdapt platforms to customer data, identity, applications, infrastructure, and operating constraints.
Explore →03Inference / ML Systems FDE
DEPLOYSModel serving infrastructureMake models fast, reliable, scalable, observable, and economical in production.
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