GAP: APPLIED AI, CLIENTS

Backend engineer to FDE

Quick answer

Backend engineers know the services side. Add LLM application skills and the customer-facing half of the job.

You already have

✓ APIs and services
✓ SQL
✓ Auth and secrets

Your gap

→ LLM APIs stage 4
→ RAG stage 4
→ Discovery stage 5

Roadmap stages to focus on

Programming foundations

Skim or skip

Data and APIs

Skim or skip

Cloud and deployment

Skim or skip

Applied AI

FOCUS

Customer discovery

FOCUS

Ship a deployment

Skim or skip

Courses that cover the gap

AI Forward Deployed Engineer Program · Scaler₹3,99,000 →Advanced Certificate in AI Forward Deployed Engineering · IIT Delhi CEP₹1,65,000 →Forward Deployed Engineer Course · School of Core AI₹65,000 →FDE Master Programme · Isha Training Solutions₹9,900 →

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