The FDE Toolkit and Technical Breadth
The forward deployed engineer's edge isn't deep mastery of one stack — it's enough breadth to build an end-to-end solution alone, fast, against whatever the customer already has.
The FDE's edge is breadth, not deep single-stack mastery: comb-shaped competence across data, backend, a little frontend, and just-enough ops; choosing tools for speed and fit; a pragmatic default kit; and the meta-skills (learning speed, finishing) that outlast any framework.