About us

Where technology meets customers, product, and business.

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area community for customer-facing technical professionals — the people who help turn complex technology into real-world solutions.
This community brings together Sales Engineers (SEs), Solutions Engineers, Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), Solutions Architects, Deployment Strategists, Implementation Engineers, Technical Success Engineers, Customer Engineers, Technical Account Managers, Field CTOs, and others working at the intersection of technology, customers, product, and business.
If you help customers understand, adopt, build with, deploy, or get value from technology, you're in the right place.

The role is evolving.
The traditional lines between sales, engineering, consulting, implementation, and product are disappearing — especially with the rise of AI and forward-deployed teams.
Today's customer-facing technical professionals aren't just giving demos or answering technical questions. They're designing solutions, building prototypes, deploying AI systems, shaping product roadmaps, solving complex customer problems, and translating between technical teams and business leaders.
That's the community we're building.

Who is this for?
You might be a:
Sales Engineer • Solutions Engineer • Forward Deployed Engineer • Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Solutions Architect • Deployment Strategist • Implementation Engineer • Technical Success Engineer • Customer Engineer • Technical Account Manager • Field CTO
Or you might simply be someone whose job doesn't fit neatly into one title — part engineer, part consultant, part product thinker, part problem solver.
We welcome people across AI, software, cloud, data, cybersecurity, developer tools, infrastructure, enterprise technology, and hardware.
And if you're a Software Engineer, Product Manager, consultant, or other technical professional interested in moving into a more customer-facing role, you're welcome here too.

What happens here?
Expect a mix of:
• Networking, happy hours, and casual meetups
• Sales Engineering and FDE roundtables
• AI, product, and technical discussions
• Career conversations and leadership panels
• Talks from experienced practitioners and technical leaders
• Discussions about deployments, customer problems, and what actually works in the field
• Opportunities to meet, learn from, and collaborate with others across the Bay Area tech ecosystem
Whether you're an experienced SE leader, an FDE building production AI systems with customers, a Solutions Architect designing complex deployments, or just discovering this career path, come join us.

The job titles may change. The common thread is simple: we sit between the technology and the people using it — and we make things work.