Forward Deployed Engineering Six evidence checks for a practice project A practical learning resource for engineers evaluating project work and forward deployed engineer certification pathways. 1. Problem brief State the intended user, the workflow you want to improve and one constraint. Define a small success test with an expected result. 2. Interface contract Document accepted inputs, returned outputs and failure behavior. Show a sample request and response without exposing secrets or customer data. 3. Method comparison Compare a simple baseline with your proposed approach. Explain what extra complexity buys; label unmeasured benefits as hypotheses. 4. Difficult-example tests Record expected and observed behavior on challenging examples. Describe failures and the limits of your test set. 5. Operations plan Explain logging, failure detection, rollback and cost limits. Clearly separate implemented controls from plans. 6. Handover package Provide a demo, runbook and remaining limitations. Ask another person to reproduce the main task using your instructions. Program reference GSDC Certified Forward Deployed Engineer - official program page This is a suggested educational framework, not an employer hiring standard, a certification requirement or a promise of employment. GSDC is the affiliated program reference. Prepared with AI assistance. Check the official page for current program information.