sixonefour labs

For engineers who ship outcomes,
not just code.

Teaching humans the right skills to flourish in the AI era.

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Forward Deployed Engineering course

Nov16

Monday, 16 November 2026

Mon & Wed, 7:00–9:00 PM (GMT+7)

Online

4 weeks · 8 live sessions

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Why

AI writes more of the code, and forward deployed engineers own the decisions around it.

Writing code from a clear description is already cheap, and reviewing, fixing and shipping code are next. What stays with people is deciding what to build, defining what good looks like, and judging whether it is ready to ship.

Engineers used to learn those calls over years of small tickets and reviewed bug fixes. AI now does that lower work, and teams expect fewer engineers to cover more of the upper part. That upper part is the work of a forward deployed engineer: sitting with the customer, deciding what to build, and owning the result in production.

What we do

We train judgment on purpose.

sixonefour labs is an AI-native product engineering academy in Ho Chi Minh City, working across Vietnam and Singapore. We train engineers for forward deployed work, the parts of the job AI does not do for you.

Product reasoning

What to build, for whom, and what to leave out.

Architecture

Decisions that hold up under load and change.

Evaluation

Judging what AI produces instead of trusting it.

Communication

Talking to users, explaining metrics, and getting people on board.

Ownership

Owning the outcome, beyond the code.

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How we train

Real problems, built with AI, judged by people.

  1. 01

    A real problem from a real business

  2. 02

    Build it with AI

  3. 03

    Judge what the AI produced

  4. 04

    Review the decision with peers

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Led by Silicon Valley founders, sixonefour labs is backed by years of engineering leadership, product expertise and deep-tech ecosystem building.

From corporate training for thousands of engineers to scaling global R&D centers for top-tier tech firms, we have a proven track record of coaching and cultivating high-performance teams.

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You belong
at the frontier.

The next Forward Deployed Engineering course starts on 16 November 2026. It runs online for 4 weeks, two evenings a week, at a highly subsidized 2,000,000 VND.

For enquiries: admissions@sixonefourlabs.com

Registration for the FDE course is open.

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