Forward Deployed Engineering with Anjor Kanekar

​'Gradient Descending' is a series of roundtables on AI: curated deep dives with technical builders. Past roundtables discussions covered RL Environments, Evals, Fine-Tuning, Agent Frameworks, Open Source Models, and Knowledge Graphs with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Scale AI and many more.

​For this session, we’re joined by Anjor Kanekar, ex-Palantir, to discuss forward deployed engineering.

​How is it different to solutions engineering? What profiles to hire for? Is it a good fit for your company? We’ll explore how the best teams bridge product, engineering, and GTM in the field; how forward deployed models create tighter feedback loops with customers; and what founders can learn from this approach as they build AI-native companies.

​Expect an honest discussion with a curated group of founders and operators building in AI.

​Agenda:

​Arrivals: 08:30–09:00
Roundtable discussion: 09:00–10:00

​See past roundtables here:
https://www.akashbajwa.co/t/ai-roundtables

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