Modal Scales Forward Deployed Engineering Team From 4 to 24 Engineers
Erik Bernhardsson reveals that Modal has rapidly scaled its forward deployed engineering (FDE) team from four to twenty-four engineers this year to help customers with performance tuning, migrating code, and product optimization.
“I think we started this year having, like, four FDEs. Now I think we have, like, twenty-four or something like that.”
Erik Bernhardsson
Heard on Latent Space — “Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO”, published Thursday, October 22, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.