LinkedIn profile for the Forward Deployed Engineer positioning

Status: Outline — full guide coming soon. Get notified when it ships →

What this covers

• The headline formula: role + stack + outcome (and why "Software Engineer at X" alone fails)
• The About section structure: 1-line hook, 3-paragraph proof, 1-line CTA
• Experience bullets that mirror the resume but read more conversationally
• The Featured section: 3-4 artifacts (repo, blog post, demo, talk) that close the loop

Why this matters for Indian devs going remote

LinkedIn Recruiter is where US/EU recruiters source — but the Indian-dev profile is often headlined "SDE-2 at Indian-Service-Co" with no positioning. The FDE framing repositions you for the role you want (product engineering, AI engineering, infra) rather than the role you have, and is the single biggest lever for inbound recruiter DMs.

Outline

The headline formula

TODO — "Forward Deployed Engineer · TypeScript + Postgres + LLM eval · shipped X to Y" — three filled examples.

The About section structure

TODO — hook (what you do), proof (three short paragraphs with numbers), CTA (how to reach you).

Experience bullets

TODO — same FDE bullet structure as the resume but expanded for skim; how to write current role vs past.

The Featured section

TODO — pin one repo, one blog post, one demo / talk, one social proof. Order matters.

Common mistakes to avoid

• "Software Engineer | Java | Spring | Microservices | Kafka" headline (reads as service-co)
• Empty About section
• Featured section with random certificates

Templates / examples

TODO — copy-paste headline templates (5 archetypes), an About section template, and 3 example profiles.

Related guides

• The FDE archetype — is it you?
• ATS-optimized resume: FDE-framed and quantified

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