Some skill overlap but that's it. I was incredibly surprised to find what I thought was a Site Reliability Engineer role was actually 'forward deployed'. I've taken to calling it Sales Recovery Engineering (lol), or realistically, consulting while someone else negotiates, enjoying less freedom/compensation and completing extra work.
In fewer words: people want you to think so, but not really. I'd argue FDE is a change for the worse (as an employee). Less about managing your direction/service, and instead, customers.
If I remember everything is open hardware, CERN should have those repo accessible, last time I used it it was still very much in dev, especially their PCIe cards with custom kernel. This being said, I haven't touched it since ~6 years ago...
