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I help companies build elite technical organizations across hiring systems, FDE strategy, AI adoption, and Palantir ecosystem consulting.

Service Areas

Hiring & Talent Systems

The Hiring Blueprint

A one-time project to design and install your hiring engine.

Ideal for early-stage teams (Seed - Series B) who need to build a repeatable hiring process from scratch.

What's included:

  • Discovery & traits workshop: Define core attributes of success at your company
  • Role definition & job descriptions that actually attract great people
  • End-to-end interview process designed to test for your specific traits
  • Custom interview kits: questions, technical challenges, scorecards
  • Interviewer calibration: hands-on training to align your team

Case studies:

Interviewing as a Service (IaaS)

On-demand expert interview capacity to scale your team without draining your engineers.

Ideal for teams with an established process who need to increase hiring velocity while maintaining a high bar.

This can also be used to uplevel your interviewer pool.

What's included:

  • Technical and behavioral interviews conducted by Palantir/Google-trained experts
  • Detailed candidate reports with clear hire/no-hire recommendations
  • 24-hour turnaround

Why it works:

  • Frees up hundreds of hours of your senior engineers' time
  • Increases signal quality with unbiased, expert assessments
  • Predictable operational expenditure to scale hiring

Embedded Hiring Partner

Strategic partnership to build, lead, and execute your entire technical hiring function.

Ideal for well-funded startups building a core team of 5-10+ engineers quickly and correctly, needing senior leadership without the full-time executive cost.

What's included:

  • Full strategic oversight: Acting as your fractional Head of Talent / VP of Engineering for hiring
  • All services from Hiring Blueprint and IaaS packages
  • Plus: Weekly pipeline reviews, sourcing strategy, offer construction, closing support, onboarding design

FDE & Organizational Strategy

Forward Deployed Engineering Organization Design

Design and implement Palantir-style FDE organizations from scratch. I help you:

  • Structure teams around customer outcomes, not org charts
  • Define the operating model that makes FDEs effective
  • Build the culture of radical ownership
  • Hire and onboard FDEs who can thrive in the model

This is the model that made Palantir successful. I spent 7 years as an FDE and know how to transplant it to other organizations.

Featured in The Pragmatic Engineer on Forward Deployed Engineering.

Case studies:

  • Prodigal Tech: Building their FDE organization from the ground up
  • Fractal Analytics: Strategic advisory on FDE organizational design for enterprise AI business
  • Object Edge: Building Palantir services wing with FDE hiring and strategy

AI Strategy & Adoption

AI Implementation Strategy

Most companies are experimenting with AI without a clear framework for what works. I help you:

  • Understand where AI amplifies expertise vs where it fails (the autonomy gradient)
  • Design validation methodologies for AI-generated outputs
  • Build AI-assisted workflows that actually increase productivity
  • Evaluate AI tools and platforms for your use case

Based on hands-on research: I rebuilt 3,500 lines of physics simulation code in 21 days using AI, documented everything, and published the findings. I know what AI can and can't do because I've tested the limits.

Technical Delivery

When strategy isn't enough, I build:

  • LLM applications and fine-tuning pipelines
  • AI evaluation frameworks
  • Proof-of-concept AI implementations

Recent work:

  • Metaview: Built data asset for LLM fine-tuning and automated job description generation
  • Catena Labs: Developed libraries to benchmark and deploy LLM ensembles
  • Radiant AI: Designed LLM-based applications demonstrating governance capabilities

Palantir Ecosystem Consulting

For Companies Using or Considering Palantir

I help organizations successfully adopt and implement Palantir Foundry:

  • Technical strategy and architecture design
  • Custom application development and data pipelines
  • Production deployments and platform implementation
  • Advisory on making Foundry work for your use case

For Companies Building Palantir Services

I help SI/consulting firms build their Palantir practice:

  • Hiring FDEs who can succeed in Palantir ecosystem
  • Training non-Palantir engineers on Foundry
  • Strategic positioning in Palantir partner ecosystem
  • Technical delivery for Foundry projects

Recent work: - Object Edge: Building Palantir services wing with FDE hiring and technical strategy

Fractional CTO / Technical Advisory

Strategic guidance for technical decisions, architecture choices, and engineering leadership. Especially valuable for:

  • Teams navigating complex technical transformations
  • Early-stage companies needing senior technical leadership without full-time exec cost
  • Organizations working across multiple domains (AI, blockchain, data infrastructure)

Selected Clients

Hiring Systems & FDE Organizations

Comand AI: Designed hiring process for mission-driven engineers, combining product sense screening with technical depth. Case study →

Northslope Technologies: Built bespoke framework defining cultural traits vs role competencies, creating interview stages that test for exact traits. Case study →

Sparta Commodities: Provided interviewing bandwidth and trained internal interviewers to scale their hiring while maintaining quality bar.

Prodigal Tech: Building their Forward Deployed Engineering organization from the ground up, including structure, processes, and culture.

Fractal Analytics: Strategic advisory on FDE organizational design for their enterprise AI business.

Object Edge: Helping build their Palantir services wing—hiring FDEs and providing technical strategy for platform implementations.

Confidential early-stage startup: Redesigned entire hiring function enabling more effective technical hiring.

Technical Delivery & Advisory

Metaview: Built data asset for LLM fine-tuning and automated job description generation.

Catena Labs: Developed libraries to benchmark and deploy LLM ensembles.

Radiant AI: Designed LLM-based applications demonstrating governance platform capabilities.

Protocol Labs: Built onboarding infrastructure for 2+ petabytes of data to Filecoin.

Triton: Architected blockchain data archival system to Filecoin.

Hence Technologies: Enterprise legal workflow automation.

Multiple early-stage startups: Hands-on MVP development in generative AI and blockchain spaces.

Why Work With Me?

Technical Credibility

I'm not an ex-engineer advising from the sidelines. I recently completed rebuilding plasma physics simulations using AI—validating through hands-on research how AI amplifies expertise rather than replacing it. When I evaluate technical candidates or design technical interviews, I understand what great engineering looks like because I'm still doing it.

Hiring Expertise at Scale

1,000+ interviews. 600+ as hiring manager at Palantir. Trained hundreds of interviewers. Built hiring systems for companies from seed to Series B. Featured in The Pragmatic Engineer.

Organizational Design

7 years as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir. I understand how to structure teams around customer outcomes, not org charts. I've built FDE-style organizations from scratch and helped companies adopt the model.

The combination is rare: deep technical competence + hiring systems expertise + organizational design experience.

Get Started

For hiring & organizational work:
Email me at me@anjor.xyz with:

  • A brief description of your company and stage
  • What you're trying to solve (hiring volume? quality? process design?)
  • Your timeline

I'll respond within 24 hours to schedule a consultation call.

For technical projects or advisory work:
Same email: me@anjor.xyz

Want to learn more first?
Read my case studies or connect on LinkedIn.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you do contingency recruiting / sourcing?
No. I design hiring systems and conduct interviews. For sourcing, I can recommend excellent recruiters or help you build an internal sourcing function.

What makes your approach different from other hiring consultants?
Most hiring consultants are recruiters who learned to interview. I'm an engineer who learned to hire. I understand technical depth because I'm still building. I also have direct experience building systems at Palantir scale.

Do you only work with startups?
No, but most of my clients are seed to Series B. The methodology works at any stage, but early-stage companies get the most value from building a system they own forever.

Can you help with roles outside engineering?
Yes. The framework applies to any role. I've designed hiring for product managers, designers, and business roles. However, my strongest expertise is in technical roles.

What's your typical engagement length?
Hiring Blueprint: 4-6 weeks. IaaS: ongoing monthly. Embedded Partner: 3-6 months minimum.

Do you take equity?
For the right company at the right stage, yes. If you're pre-seed/seed and cash-constrained but building something exceptional, let's discuss a hybrid cash+equity arrangement. Email me.