KetumanVishwakarma

I embed with customers’ engineering teams, build whatever it takes to get our product live in their stack, and keep it running in production.

Forward Deployed Engineer at Bluecore

Outside work, I build things of my own, from the first sketch to the launch.

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Work

I have been an FDE for enterprise clients across several regions, from scoping to production. A few things I’ve built there:

500Mloyalty records checked on every run
Guardrails for Gap’s loyalty pipeline
One bad run in Gap Inc.’s loyalty pipeline could push broken customer data downstream, and our deployment playbook had no step for it. I added SQL checks with a threshold and an alert to every run, closing off a risk behind recurring outages.
SQL, BigQuery, Alerting
from 30 to 12 minfor each live site check
EventProof
Before Black Friday, every client storefront has to send the right tracking events. EventProof drafts a checklist from the integration code, walks the site on desktop and mobile, and checks every event payload in code.
TypeScript, Playwright, Claude Code skills
from 30% to 5%of catalog and eligibility runs halting
Keeping catalog pipelines running
I own production support for the pipelines that pull catalog and eligibility data from very different client systems. Root-cause fixes, monitoring and automatic safeguards cut halted runs from about 30% to about 5%.
Python, SQL, GCP Cloud Functions
90%of the FDE team uses it
Chrono DevTool
An internal VS Code extension with a guided job builder and one-click testing. Setting up a client pipeline now takes half as long, and almost the whole team switched to it.
TypeScript, VS Code extension API

Experience

2024 to nowForward Deployed Engineer, BluecoreTechnical lead contact for enterprise retail clients in the US, EU, UK, Japan and Canada. Interim squad lead for the FDE pod.
2022 to 2024Software Engineer, Frontend, HotWax CommerceFeatures in React, Vue and Ionic for an order management system, and a single sign-on service shared across its apps. Ran Hacktoberfest for students in 2022 and 2023.
AlongsideInstructor, FDE AcademyTwo workshops on what forward deployed engineers actually do, for 110 attendees, and a seat on the expert Q&A panel.

Projects

Things I’ve designed, built and shipped on my own.

Git-ing Over It

Browser game, 2026Live

A game that teaches git judgment, not git commands. A coworker messages you about something that went wrong, you fix it in a real terminal, and the game checks the repo you end up with, so any valid fix passes.

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Perk

Chrome extension, 2026Live

A focus timer that makes you actually take the break. Each break is one short animated stretch and a glass of water, then you’re back to work. It waits while you’re on a call and never pulls you out of another app.

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