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Assess both the candidate’s hard and soft skills within a month to see if they align with your criteria.
Charges apply only if the talent successfully passes the trial period evaluation.
If the current candidate does not meet expectations, we will promptly find a replacement.
Hire senior experts who match US-level engineers in expertise and work ethic, integrate easily into your team, and deliver high-quality code from day one.
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Skip the hassle of sifting through resumes and meet 3 handpicked candidates who are the perfect fit technically and culturally, so you can focus on building great products.
Benefit from personalized support throughout the onboarding process, talent integration, and ongoing performance monitoring with a dedicated account executive and expert talent matcher.
Deploy AI-Powered Customer Solutions Onsite
Our Forward Deployed Engineers, human-vetted from the top 1% of 30,000+ engineers from LATAM and CEE, embed with your customer success and product teams to implement AI-driven solutions using GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and custom RAG pipelines. They translate client requirements into production-ready features, integrate LLM APIs, and optimize inference costs by up to 50%. Perfect for SaaS companies scaling AI adoption in 2025, with human-matched expertise that ensures seamless collaboration and 97% client satisfaction leading to repeat engagements.
Scale Enterprise Integrations with Client-Embedded Teams
Deploy Forward Deployed Engineers who work directly at enterprise client sites to build custom integrations, APIs, and data pipelines using modern frameworks like FastAPI, GraphQL, and Apache Kafka. Our top 1% talent from LATAM and CEE handles complex authentication protocols, real-time data synchronization, and legacy system modernization. With 12,000+ technical assessments monthly ensuring quality, these engineers reduce integration time by 60% while maintaining security compliance across 160+ countries, saving your business $80M+ in collective hiring costs.
Accelerate Cloud Migration with Embedded Expertise
Our human-vetted Forward Deployed Engineers from 30,000+ professionals in LATAM and CEE lead onsite cloud transformation initiatives using AWS, Azure, and GCP. They architect microservices migrations, implement Kubernetes orchestration, and establish CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD. Matched in 48 hours through our AI-first process, these engineers work alongside your DevOps teams to achieve 99.9% uptime, reduce infrastructure costs by 40-60%, and ensure zero-downtime migrations trusted by companies like Vodafone and Stuart.
Build Real-Time Analytics Dashboards for Clients
Forward Deployed Engineers from our top 1% talent pool design and implement real-time analytics solutions using Snowflake, Databricks, and modern BI tools like Looker and Tableau. They embed with client teams to understand business KPIs, build ETL pipelines with dbt and Airflow, and create actionable dashboards that process millions of events daily. With no upfront fees and human-matched precision, these engineers deliver data infrastructure that drives 3x faster decision-making for enterprise clients in 2025's data-driven landscape.
Implement Zero-Trust Security Architectures
Our Forward Deployed Engineers, sourced from 2.5 million professionals and vetted to the top 1%, deploy comprehensive security solutions including zero-trust network access, identity management with Okta and Auth0, and compliance frameworks for SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA. They work onsite to conduct security audits, implement encryption at rest and in transit, and establish incident response protocols. Globally compliant across 160+ countries, these engineers reduce security vulnerabilities by 70% while ensuring your systems meet 2025's stringent regulatory requirements.
Launch IoT and Edge Computing Solutions
Deploy Forward Deployed Engineers who specialize in IoT architecture, edge computing with AWS IoT Greengrass and Azure IoT Edge, and real-time device management. Our human-vetted engineers from LATAM and CEE implement MQTT protocols, build firmware updates over-the-air, and create predictive maintenance systems using TensorFlow Lite. Matched in 48 hours, they work directly with hardware teams to deliver scalable IoT platforms that process sensor data at millisecond latency, trusted by 250+ startups for mission-critical deployments.
Optimize Application Performance and Scalability
Our top 1% Forward Deployed Engineers embed with your engineering teams to diagnose bottlenecks, implement caching strategies with Redis and Memcached, and optimize database queries across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB. They conduct load testing with k6 and Gatling, implement auto-scaling policies, and reduce API response times by up to 80%. With 97% of clients returning for a second engagement, these engineers from 30,000+ human-vetted professionals deliver performance improvements that support 10x user growth in 2025.
Develop Custom Machine Learning Pipelines
Forward Deployed Engineers from our AI-first, human-matched platform build end-to-end ML pipelines using PyTorch, TensorFlow, and MLflow for model versioning. They work onsite to understand your data, engineer features, train custom models, and deploy them to production with monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana. Our top 1% talent from LATAM and CEE reduces model training time by 50% and achieves 95%+ accuracy for use cases such as fraud detection, recommendation engines, and predictive analytics, delivering 40-60% cost savings compared to traditional hiring.
Establish DevSecOps and Compliance Automation
Our Forward Deployed Engineers implement comprehensive DevSecOps practices including automated security scanning with Snyk and SonarQube, infrastructure as code using Terraform and Pulumi, and compliance monitoring across multi-cloud environments. Human-vetted from 30,000+ engineers in LATAM and CEE through a 5-stage process with ~1.2% acceptance rate, they embed with your teams to reduce deployment times by 70%, automate compliance reporting for 160+ countries, and establish audit trails that satisfy enterprise security requirements. No upfront fees and full engineering capabilities ensure risk-free scaling.
Scale your team month-to-month with vetted freelancers, perfect for changing needs.
One-time fee for a fully-vetted, permanent, and globally compliant team member.
Kick off your next big project with a complete engineering team & end-to-end support.
22%
Annual growth rate for DevOps and deployment roles
$145K
Median U.S. salary for deployment engineers
68%
Companies struggle to fill customer-facing tech roles
3.2M
Global shortage of skilled deployment professionals
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technologies covered, from Python & Java to Rust & Scala
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