When does a product engineer beat a dev shop?
When you need one accountable partner for architecture, scope, and launch — not a rotating bench of ticket takers.
Founders hire me when tradeoffs need judgment: build vs buy, mobile vs web first, and what to cut from v1. Dev shops optimize for throughput, not outcomes.
How should you structure the engagement?
Weekly milestones, shared roadmap, direct access, and code in your repos from day one.
Subscription or project — either works with clear success metrics and a single senior engineer who stays after go-live.