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Meet Lokesh: Lead FDE Trainer in Hyderabad
Lokesh is the lead FDE trainer Hyderabad learners work with at FDE Masters: 4 years in generative AI engineering, 1 year as a forward deployed engineer at Brolly Software Solutions, where he led the RAG Chatbot, Brolly VoxFlow and a dozen live products.
4 yrs GenAI engineering · 1 yr forward deployed engineer
Led 12+ live web and mobile products at Brolly Software Solutions
Teaches every live session of both programs
Who is the FDE trainer at FDE Masters?
Lokesh is the FDE trainer Hyderabad learners meet in every live session at FDE Masters. He brings 4 years of generative AI engineering and 1 year as a forward deployed engineer at Brolly Software Solutions Pvt Ltd, the Brolly Group's software company near JNTU Metro, where as team lead and manager he built and deployed the products listed on brollysolutions.in.
That matters because a forward deployed engineer (FDE) is judged on what ships and gets used, not on what is demonstrated. Lokesh has scoped features with business owners, shipped RAG and voice systems to live users, handled the support tickets that followed, and explained outcomes to people who do not care how a vector index works.
He teaches every live session of the FDE Career Program and the FDE Advanced Program, runs the Friday Customer Engagement Lab, reviews every project, and mentors interns on the same products he led. [PLACEHOLDER: trainer photo]
Key takeaways
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4 years building generative AI systems and 1 year in a forward deployed engineer role at Brolly Software Solutions, Hyderabad.
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Led the teams that built the RAG Chatbot, Brolly VoxFlow, Resume Generator, Prompt Generator, the Loans and Real Estate platform, the Brolly Attendance portal and a family of learning apps.
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Teaches from production incidents: what broke, what the customer said, and what the fix cost.
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Runs the Customer Engagement Lab personally, role-playing CFOs, CISOs and ops managers so learners practise the hard conversations.
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Education, certifications and LinkedIn profile: [PLACEHOLDER: education], [PLACEHOLDER: certifications], [PLACEHOLDER: LinkedIn URL].
Products Lokesh led at Brolly Software Solutions
Each of these is a live product with real users. They supply the examples, incident stories and lab data used throughout both programs.
RAG Chatbot
A document-grounded assistant for business clients. Lessons taught from it: chunking real PDFs, permission-aware retrieval, citation accuracy, cost control and what to do when retrieval quality drops after a client uploads new documents.
Brolly VoxFlow
Spreadsheet-to-voice outbound call automation with RAG. Lessons: latency budgets for voice, graceful failure mid-call, evaluating scripts against outcomes, and reporting to campaign owners in business terms.
Resume Generator and Prompt Generator
An ATS-oriented resume builder and a prompt authoring tool. Lessons: structured outputs, building eval sets for subjective quality, and shipping LLM features in a plain web UI non-technical users trust.
Loans and Real Estate platform
A lending and property platform with enterprise-style data, integrations and dashboards. The direct inspiration for Deccan Finance, the fictional NBFC client used in every FDE Masters exercise.
Brolly Attendance portal
Internal HR attendance system used across Brolly Group institutes. Lessons: RBAC, reporting, and the reality of maintaining an internal tool that hundreds of people rely on every morning.
Learning and marketplace apps
Brolly Phonics, Spark Phonics, Brolly Wonder, Telugu Varnamala, Brolly Juniors, Brolly Exam Prep, Telangana Police Exam Prep, Abacus Experts and Anugraha Siddhi, a purohit marketplace. Lessons: mobile delivery, content pipelines and analytics.
What Lokesh teaches
He leads every module of both programs; SOC Masters faculty join for the security, compliance and governance weeks.
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LLM engineering: structured outputs, context management, Claude and OpenAI APIs, cost and latency budgets.
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Production RAG on messy enterprise data with PostgreSQL, pgvector, hybrid search, rerankers and permission-aware retrieval.
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Evals as engineering: golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, RAGAS, promptfoo, Langfuse and CI gates that block bad releases.
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Agents and MCP: LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, tool design, human-in-the-loop, guardrails and MCP servers for ServiceNow, Salesforce and internal systems.
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Enterprise deployment: AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Terraform, private VPC and on-prem constraints, SSO with OIDC and SAML.
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Consulting craft: discovery calls, MECE scoping, PRDs, statements of work, executive status notes, ROI cases and demos in English and Telugu or Hindi.
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Developer productivity with Claude Code, used from Week 2 of the Career Program onwards.
Teaching philosophy: deploy, get complained at, fix, explain
Lokesh's view is that nobody becomes a forward deployed engineer by watching someone else deploy. So every week ends with something running in a shared environment, every project has a stakeholder demo, and every demo is gated by evals and a security note. If the golden dataset fails, the demo waits, exactly as it would with a real client.
He teaches from incidents rather than slides. A retrieval outage on the RAG Chatbot becomes the Week 10 lesson on chunk boundaries. A VoxFlow call that stalled becomes the Week 9 lesson on latency budgets. A client's security questionnaire becomes the Week 15 evidence pack exercise. Learners remember stories with consequences.
The other half of his method is the Customer Engagement Lab. Engineers in India are rarely taught to run a discovery call or push back on scope. Lokesh plays the difficult stakeholder every Friday so that by demo day a CFO's question about ROI is routine. Read how this shows up in the day in the life of an FDE and in the curriculum design principles.
Trainer profile at a glance
Detail
Information
Name
Lokesh
Role
Lead FDE Trainer, FDE Masters by Brolly
Experience
4 years generative AI engineering; 1 year forward deployed engineer at Brolly Software Solutions Pvt Ltd (team lead and manager)
Products led
RAG Chatbot, Brolly VoxFlow, Resume Generator, Prompt Generator, Loans and Real Estate platform, Brolly Attendance portal, Brolly Phonics, Spark Phonics, Brolly Wonder, Telugu Varnamala, Brolly Juniors, Brolly Exam Prep, Telangana Police Exam Prep, Abacus Experts, Anugraha Siddhi
Education
[PLACEHOLDER: education]
Certifications
[PLACEHOLDER: certifications]
[PLACEHOLDER: LinkedIn URL]
Languages
English, Telugu, Hindi
Teaches
All live sessions of the Career and Advanced Programs, Customer Engagement Lab, project reviews, internship mentoring
Based in
Hyderabad (campus near JNTU Metro, Kukatpally)
Frequently asked questions
Who is the FDE trainer at FDE Masters in Hyderabad?
Lokesh is the lead FDE trainer. He has 4 years of generative AI engineering experience and 1 year as a forward deployed engineer at Brolly Software Solutions Pvt Ltd in Hyderabad, where as team lead and manager he built live products including the RAG Chatbot, Brolly VoxFlow, Resume Generator, the Loans and Real Estate platform and the Brolly Attendance portal. He teaches every live session.
Does the trainer have real forward deployed engineer experience?
Yes. Lokesh spent a year as a forward deployed engineer at Brolly Software Solutions, scoping and shipping RAG, voice automation and platform features for business clients and internal units, then supporting them in production. Before that he spent 4 years building generative AI systems. The course examples, incident stories and lab data come from that work rather than from public tutorials.
Will Lokesh teach my batch or will it be a different trainer?
Lokesh teaches all live sessions of both the Career Program and the Advanced Program, online and classroom, and runs the Friday Customer Engagement Lab and project reviews. SOC Masters faculty co-teach the security, compliance and governance weeks. If any session is covered by another trainer for unavoidable reasons, you are told in advance and the session is still recorded.
Can I speak with the trainer before enrolling?
Yes. The free 60-minute demo class is taught by Lokesh and ends with open Q&A. He will look at your background and tell you plainly whether the Career Program, the Advanced Program or a few weeks of preparation is the right next step. You can also ask about the internship and placement process. Book through the free demo page.
What are the trainer's qualifications and certifications?
Education: [PLACEHOLDER: education]. Certifications: [PLACEHOLDER: certifications]. LinkedIn: [PLACEHOLDER: LinkedIn URL]. The credentials we emphasise are the shipped products listed on this page and on brollysolutions.in, because forward deployed engineering is judged on deployments that users keep using, which is also how we assess learners.
Learn from someone who has done the job
Join a free demo class taught by Lokesh. Work through one real Deccan Finance exercise, ask about his deployments, and find out which program fits you.