{"id":1008661,"date":"2026-05-19T09:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008661"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:14:13","slug":"it-firms-new-gold-dust-forward-deployed-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/it-firms-new-gold-dust-forward-deployed-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"IT firms\u2019 new gold dust: Forward deployed engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over offshore coders. Indian IT firms are now sending engineers straight into the client\u2019s war room. As artificial intelligence (AI) projects move from flashy demos to messy real-world deployment, companies such as Infosys, HCLTech, Wipro and Coforge are embracing a Silicon Valley-style role called the forward deployed engineer (FDE) who is a  part coder, part consultant, part corporate therapist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over offshore coders. Indian IT firms are now sending engineers straight into the client\u2019s war room. As artificial intelligence (AI) projects move from flashy demos to messy real-world deployment, companies such as Infosys, HCLTech, Wipro and Coforge are embracing a Silicon Valley-style role called the forward deployed engineer (FDE) who is a part coder, part consultant, part corporate therapist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008682,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008661\/revisions\/1008682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}