FDE Recruiting & Advisory
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Paxton Duff
Co-founder & CEO
Employee 25 at Codeium/Windsurf and a top-performing AE. Worked alongside technical teams and customers during the company’s rapid growth.
Maggie Krummel
Co-founder & Managing Partner
Second deployed engineer at Codeium/Windsurf and the first technical hire outside the Bay Area. Went on to build the global deployed engineering team across Austin, London, and LATAM.
- 1,000+ interviews conductedDeep experience evaluating technical and customer-facing talent.
- Dozens of FDEs hiredWe know what separates a strong résumé from a great deployed engineer.
- Built the function firsthandReal experience designing and scaling deployed engineering teams.
How we help.
We recruit Forward Deployed Engineers for AI companies, and advise early-stage AI startups.
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