Cloud costs are rising.
Spend is climbing faster than usage, and it is not clear whether the cause is architecture, operations, or product growth.
Van Der Wall Tech
Turn technical uncertainty into a clear engineering roadmap.
When cloud costs rise, architecture feels uncertain, or engineering process starts slowing growth, we help identify what is wrong, prioritize what matters, and support execution through fractional engineering leadership.
Not sure what needs to be fixed yet? That is exactly where we start.
Technical drag
Technical drag usually shows up before the root cause is obvious.
Engineering process is not keeping up.
Planning, releases, code review, and ownership worked before, but growth has made delivery harder to predict.
Architecture may not scale.
The system is supporting customers today, but the team is unsure where the next scaling or reliability limit will appear.
Security expectations are increasing.
Investor diligence, customer reviews, vendor questionnaires, or compliance pressure are exposing gaps in technical risk planning.
Production risks are harder to ignore.
Incidents, fragile deploys, missing runbooks, unclear alerts, or operational ownership issues are starting to create business risk.
Primary entry offer
Engineering Health Review
Scoped to your area of concern.
A focused review of one technical area: Engineering Operations, Reliability & Production Readiness, Security & Technical Risk, Cloud Cost & Architecture, or a custom technical concern. The review starts with discovery and produces practical findings, diagrams where useful, recommendations, and a prioritized roadmap your team can act on.
See how the review works- 01 Discovery
- 02 Focused review
- 03 Findings
- 04 Risk summary
- 05 30/60/90-day roadmap
- 06 Readout
Service focus areas
Senior technical evaluation with the option for hands-on execution.
For teams searching for fractional CTO-level guidance, Van Der Wall Tech provides senior engineering leadership across operations, reliability, security, cloud cost, and architecture without requiring a full-time executive hire.
01
Engineering Operations Review
Improve how work moves from idea to production.
Evaluate planning, SDLC, CI/CD, releases, code review, documentation, and team operating rhythm.
View details02Reliability & Production Readiness
Reduce operational risk before it becomes normal.
Review observability, alerting, deployment safety, runbooks, backup practices, SLOs, and ownership.
View details03Security & Technical Risk Review
Make security risk practical and actionable.
Identify gaps across cloud posture, IAM, secrets, SDLC security, auditability, and compliance readiness.
View details04Cloud Cost & Architecture Review
Understand what is driving cloud spend and scale risk.
Review AWS infrastructure, application architecture, cost drivers, scalability, and infrastructure complexity.
View detailsWhy Van Der Wall Tech
Direct access to senior engineering judgment.
Van Der Wall Tech gives growing teams direct access to senior engineering judgment from someone who has operated production systems, led technical teams, and built real SaaS products.
Senior operator judgment
You work directly with a senior technical operator, not a sales team, not a junior consultant, and not a generic agency.
Roadmap before activity
The work starts by clarifying the pressure, separating symptoms from root causes, and prioritizing what matters first.
Advisor who can execute
When the plan is clear, Van Der Wall Tech can support implementation across AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and workflow systems.
Engagement path
Start with clarity, then decide how much help you need.
1. Start with the concern
Bring the pressure you can see: cost, reliability, architecture, security expectations, process drag, or something custom.
2. Review one focused area
The Engineering Health Review scopes discovery around the area of concern and turns scattered signals into practical findings.
3. Leave with priorities
Your team gets a risk summary, recommendations, diagrams where useful, and a 30/60/90-day roadmap.
4. Continue if useful
Ongoing support can become fractional engineering leadership or clearly scoped technical execution.
Start a conversation
Not sure what needs to be fixed yet? Start a conversation.
Send a short note about what is creating pressure. If the issue is unclear, the first conversation is about understanding what is happening and whether an Engineering Health Review is the right next step.
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