Team Leadership · Solutions Architecture · AI · Full-Stack Engineering

https://frankfava.netlify.app/roles/forward-deployed-engineer

An FDE embeds with a customer and turns a product into a production system that sticks. I have spent my career building inside other people's systems, being the person they call, and turning what worked into something the next engagement can reuse.

Based
Stockholm · Remote or hybrid
Rights
EU and EEA, no sponsorship.
Language
English, Swedish (Elementary)
Notice
Minimal

What I bring → what the role needs

  • Part-time CTO embedded at National Auto Service (4 years, built + operated in prod)Working within customer systems to build and run production applications

    Owned architecture, security and delivery for a platform now used across ~90% of Australia - and stayed to operate it.

  • Shipped FilamentPHP tooling inside SAVR's stackDelivering technical artifacts that meet customer requirements

    Built production operability tools the data and customer-service teams use daily inside a regulated fintech.

Featured projects

  • National Auto Service Part-time CTO + Product OwnerAn internal asset-management platform for vehicle lifecycle tracking - customer portals, contractor coordination, and cashflow workflow automation. Built with Laravel and VueJS.

Featured skills

REST API · AstroJS · AWS · Claude · Docker · FilamentPHP · Laravel · PHP · PostgreSQL · React/JSX · TypeScript · VueJS

Capabilities

  • Customer-facing and pre-sales 95/100160+ projects sold and built. Account executive and engineer on every one.
  • Hands-on engineering 88/10021 years of coding experience. Paid to write code since 2014.
  • Agentic AI in production 85/100A self-hosted "second brain" built using Claude, running scheduled agents, and supporting ongoing personal and work-related tasks.
  • Owning the architecture 90/100Four years as the only technical voice at an asset-management company. One domain model, multiple services.

Transferable skills

Customer Service · Project Management · Leadership · Team Collaboration · Sales and Business development