Clearscale Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) As-a-Service

Stop paying for slideware and stalled proofs of concept. Clearscale's Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) as a Service embeds a senior, production-grade engineer directly into your team, on a flat monthly subscription, billed through AWS Marketplace.

From the first week, your FDE is writing code and shipping real infrastructure, not just producing recommendations.

Whether you're struggling with fragmented enterprise data, hitting scaling limits in your AWS infrastructure, or stuck moving Generative AI agents from demo to production, a Clearscale FDE takes ownership of your hardest technical problems and builds the solution alongside your team. Our FDE team is backed by the proven Clearscale One delivery excellence model, available to scale engineering staff on demand.

How It Works: The Monthly FDE Flow

When you subscribe to a Clearscale FDE, you aren't hiring a traditional staff augmentation resource; you are deploying an advanced engineering mechanism into your organization.

Month 1: Triage, Architecture, & Initial Blast Radius

• Deep immersion into your current AWS environments, codebase infrastructure, and data topologies.
• Identification and prioritization of technical blockers mapping directly to major business outcomes (e.g., pipeline lag, high computing costs, AI reliability).
• Shipment of the first set of production-ready integrations, infrastructure-as-code scripts (Terraform/CDK), or API bridges.

Month 2+: High-Velocity Execution & Optimization

• Continuous deployment of microservices, serverless architectures, and advanced data-lake schemas (using Amazon DynamoDB, EMR, or Redshift).
• Building and hardening production environments, enabling zero-downtime CI/CD workflows, and embedding advanced telemetry.
• Rigorous knowledge transfer and mentorship to level up your internal development teams.

Key Problem Domains Solved

• Complex Data Monoliths: Wrangling multi-source data streams into a unified operational layer.
• Stalled GenAI Initiatives: Taking fragile RAG apps and turning them into scalable, secure, multi-agent frameworks on AWS.
• In-Flight Modernization: Refactoring monolithic .NET, Java, or legacy workloads into agile, containerized (ECS/EKS) or serverless (Lambda) equivalents without interrupting production.
• Prototyping/Demonstrators: Beyond the usual “AI Pilot”, our FDEs can use Clearscale’s delivery automation to rapidly produce the types of functional demonstrators which startups need to secure funding.

Pricing & Custom Private Offers Clearscale FDE As-a-Service is structured as a fixed monthly commitment to align incentives entirely around continuous velocity and output.

• Base Tier (1 Dedicated Lead FDE): Flat monthly fee billed directly through AWS Marketplace. Includes backing access to Clearscale’s broader squad of Architects and Subject Matter Experts.
• Custom Private Offers Available: For large-scale initiatives requiring multi-FDE pods, cross-regional support, or specialized industry compliance protocols (such as HIPAA or FedRAMP), click "Request Private Offer" to receive custom pricing and customized terms.

Why buy through AWS Marketplace? Accelerate your procurement process, retire your AWS EDP (Enterprise Discount Program) commitments, and seamlessly integrate elite engineering talent directly into your consolidated monthly AWS invoice.