AnalysisBusinessSeptember 12, 2026

Kepler CEO Vinoo Ganesh on the rise of the forward deployed engineer

Ganesh, who built the FDE function at Palantir, Citadel and now Kepler, says labs, startups and PE firms are all hiring engineers to sit inside customer operations. Palantir's Project Frontline rotation put ~250 engineers through the role; many now run FDE teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Anduril.

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Kepler CEO Vinoo Ganesh on the rise of the forward deployed engineer