Question 1

What does a Forward Deployed Engineer do for an AI-native startup?

Accepted Answer

An FDE sits between the model team and the customer: scopes the use case, integrates the LLM into the customer's real data and workflows, builds the evals that prove it works, and stays on the hook after launch. Sadok Bouzayen does this end to end, from architecture to on-call.

Question 2

Does Sadok Bouzayen work remotely or on contract?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Based in Tunis (CET), working remote or on contract with AI-native startups in Europe and North America. Response time under 24 hours.

Question 3

Which models and stacks does Sadok Bouzayen ship with?

Accepted Answer

Gemini, Claude, OpenAI and NVIDIA NIM-routed models (Kimi, Nemotron), Whisper for speech, in-browser embeddings for private matching. TypeScript, React, Python, Supabase/Postgres, Vercel serverless.

Question 4

What is Sadok Bouzayen's background outside engineering?

Accepted Answer

Funded founder of Bookeeni through RedStart Tunis, a $1M+ enterprise sales record at Goldstar, and a research paper currently under peer review. Speaks Arabic, French and English.

Sadok Bouzayen — Forward Deployed Engineer, AI systems