The Future of Forward Deployed Engineering | OpenAI, Ramp, Nominal, Dataland

章节 1：前沿部署工程师圆桌嘉宾介绍

📝 本节摘要：

主持人 Finn 欢迎到场者，介绍 South Park Commons 为探索创业、研究和开源项目的建设者提供交流空间，并逐一介绍 Ramp、Nominal、Dataland 与 OpenAI 的嘉宾。随后他提出讨论起点：请嘉宾结合各自业务，说明前沿部署工程（FDE）的含义。

[原文] [Finn]: First of all, thank you all for being here. This is an incredible turnout for a Tuesday night. There are a lot of folks here who are starting their own companies and interested in a forward-deployed motion for their company. A lot of folks who are interested in the FD function, potentially becoming an FD. So, we will cover a bunch of relevant topics tonight and have an amazing lineup for you. Before we get started, I'm Finn. I'm one of the partners at South Park Commons.

[译文] [Finn]: 首先，感谢大家今晚到场。周二晚上能来这么多人，真是太难得了。现场有不少人正在创办自己的公司，也对在公司采用前沿部署模式感兴趣；还有很多人关注前沿部署职能，甚至可能想成为一名前沿部署工程师。今晚我们会聊到许多相关话题，也请来了很棒的嘉宾。开始之前先自我介绍一下，我叫 Finn，是 South Park Commons 的合伙人之一。

[原文] [Finn]: For those who don't know or are unfamiliar with the community, South Park Commons is a place for builders who are exploring their next adventure, whether that is starting a company, doing independent research, or working on open-source software, to come and pursue technical projects of any sort. We host events like this to bring together folks who are doing interesting frontier work in technology to learn from each other. So, without further ado, we have Calvin, who built the forward-deployed engineering team at Ramp, one of the iconic New York startups now. Jason, who is the founder of Nominal, also was earlier in his career at Palantir, spent time working across internal platform and forward deployment there. Howard, who is a founder who actually is from the South Park

[译文] [Finn]: 如果你还不了解这个社区，South Park Commons 是一个让建设者探索下一段旅程的地方。无论你想创办公司、独立研究，还是开发开源软件，都可以来这里开展各种技术项目。我们举办这样的活动，是为了让在科技前沿做着有趣工作的朋友聚在一起，互相学习。言归正传，先介绍 Calvin：他在 Ramp 搭建了前沿部署工程团队。Ramp 如今已是纽约颇具代表性的初创公司之一。Jason 是 Nominal 的创始人，职业生涯早期也曾在 Palantir 工作，参与过内部平台和前沿部署方面的工作。Howard 是一位创始人，也来自 South Park

[原文] [Finn]: Commons community, started a company called Dataland, and also spent time earlier in his career at Palantir. And Colin, who is here in town from the UK. We're grateful to have him while he was here in town, and he leads forward-deployed engineering at OpenAI. So, yeah, thank you all for joining us.

[译文] [Finn]: Commons 社区。他创办了 Dataland，职业生涯早期也曾在 Palantir 工作。还有 Colin，他从英国来到这里，趁他在城里的时候能请到他，我们很高兴。他负责 OpenAI 的前沿部署工程。再次感谢各位嘉宾参加。

[原文] [Finn]: Rather than trying to give long intros for everyone, I thought a good place to start would be: I've seen many different definitions of forward-deployed engineering. So, maybe each of you could just share a quick sentence or two about your company, and then go a little bit deeper into what forward-deployed engineering means in the context of your business. Who wants to start? Is this thing on?

[译文] [Finn]: 与其让每个人都做很长的自我介绍，我想不如从这里开始：我看到过很多种对前沿部署工程的定义。请大家先用一两句话介绍自己的公司，再进一步聊聊在你们的业务中，前沿部署工程意味着什么。谁先来？麦克风开了吗？

[原文] [Calvin]: All right. So, Ramp, hopefully you all know, saves time and money. Corporate cards, expense management, bill payments: the financial operations platform that replaces a traditional Amex and Concur setup.

[译文] [Calvin]: 好。Ramp 希望大家都听说过，主打省时省钱。我们提供公司卡、费用管理和账单支付，是一个财务运营平台，可以取代传统的美国运通（Amex）加 Concur 组合。