Technologies And Platforms
Named languages, clouds, frameworks, vendors, protocols, and enterprise systems that show up in FDE listings.
Python
A general-purpose programming language widely used for backend services, scripting, data processing, machine learning, automation, and AI application development.
TypeScript
JavaScript with static types. Commonly used for frontend applications, Node.js backends, API clients, internal tools, and full-stack product work.
JavaScript
The core programming language of the web. Used in browsers, Node.js services, scripts, frontend frameworks, and many customer-facing product surfaces.
SQL
Structured Query Language. Used to query, transform, model, and inspect relational data in operational databases, warehouses, analytics systems, and customer datasets.
React
A JavaScript library for building user interfaces. In FDE work, React often appears in internal tools, dashboards, customer-facing workflow apps, and product prototypes.
AWS
Amazon Web Services. A major cloud platform used for compute, storage, databases, networking, identity, serverless functions, containers, observability, and managed AI services.
GCP
Google Cloud Platform. A major cloud platform used for compute, storage, data warehouses, machine learning, Kubernetes, networking, identity, and managed AI services.
Azure
Microsoft Azure. A major cloud platform often used in enterprise environments, especially where customers already rely on Microsoft identity, productivity, data, and infrastructure tools.
Kubernetes
An orchestration system for deploying and managing containerized applications. It is commonly used for scalable services, production deployments, service discovery, and infrastructure standardization.
Docker
A container platform for packaging applications with their runtime dependencies. Docker is useful for local development, reproducible deployments, CI/CD, and running services consistently across environments.
Terraform
An infrastructure-as-code tool for defining and managing cloud and platform resources through versioned configuration.
OpenAI API
OpenAI's developer API for using models and platform features in applications. In FDE work, it can appear in prototypes, production AI workflows, retrieval systems, tool-calling apps, and customer integrations.
Anthropic / Claude
Anthropic is an AI company; Claude is its family of AI assistants and models. Listings may mention Claude when customers or products use Anthropic models for generation, analysis, coding, or workflow automation.
LangChain / LangGraph
Open-source frameworks for building LLM applications and agentic workflows. LangChain focuses on application components and integrations; LangGraph focuses on graph-based, stateful agent workflows.
LlamaIndex
An open-source framework for building data-aware LLM applications, especially retrieval, indexing, connectors, and RAG workflows.
Model Context Protocol / MCP
An open protocol for connecting LLM applications to external tools, data sources, and workflows through a standardized client/server interface.
ServiceNow
An enterprise platform for IT service management, workflow automation, ticketing, operations, and business process management. FDE-adjacent roles may use it as an integration target or automation environment.
Salesforce / CRM
Salesforce is a major customer relationship management platform. CRM systems track customers, accounts, opportunities, support interactions, and sales or service workflows, and often become important integration targets.