Engineering Leadership & Execution
Clearer direction for engineering teams.
Align technical planning, prioritization, and delivery rhythm so business goals turn into execution the team can sustain.
- Technical planning
- Delivery rhythm
- Prioritization
Van Der Wall Tech
Fractional technical leadership for reliability, security, and engineering operations.
Who we help
Senior technical direction before a full-time executive hire makes sense.
Van Der Wall Tech helps startups and SMBs running production software, cloud infrastructure, or customer-facing platforms when the technical problems are bigger than the team's available leadership bandwidth.
- Incidents are getting harder to manage.
- Cloud costs are climbing.
- Security expectations keep increasing.
- Engineering delivery feels harder to predict.
- The founder or owner is still carrying too many technical decisions.
- The team needs senior direction without another full-time executive.
Services
Senior help for the technical problems your team can't keep carrying.
Reliability & SRE Leadership
Fewer fires, better production habits.
Improve incident response, observability, alert quality, escalation paths, and production readiness across AWS/cloud systems.
- Incident response
- Observability
- Production readiness
Practical Security Leadership
Security work that is practical and audit-friendly.
Build security hygiene through cloud reviews, IAM cleanup, policies, SOC 2 readiness, secrets management, and auditability.
- Cloud and IAM reviews
- SOC 2 readiness
- Auditability
How engagements work
Scoped around the problem, not a rigid package.
Some teams need a sounding board for senior technical decisions. Others need a focused review, a reset plan, or hands-on help implementing the first version of a better process. Engagements are scoped around the problem and the level of leadership your team actually needs.
AdvisoryFractional leadershipProject-based reviewsHands-on help when neededCustom engagements
Common examples
- Cloud cost review
- Incident management program setup
- Security readiness review
- Engineering operating rhythm reset
- Architecture and technical debt review
Why VDW Tech
Founder-led guidance from someone who has operated production systems.
About Scott
Van Der Wall Tech is led by Scott VanDerWall, a hands-on engineering and operations leader with experience across SRE, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, incident management, security, and engineering team leadership.
- Led reliability and infrastructure work in high-traffic production environments.
- Built and operated AWS-based cloud systems.
- Led and supported engineering teams across SRE, DevOps, platform, and technical operations.
- Experienced in incident management, observability, cost control, security fundamentals, and team execution.
- Founder and builder of BearTalent.
BearTalent
A Van Der Wall Tech product and practical case study.
BearTalent is a Van Der Wall Tech product and a practical example of the work behind the company: product strategy, cloud architecture, workflow design, automation, AI-assisted features, and operational execution.
View BearTalent
Contact
Need senior technical help without a full-time hire?
Email Scott and tell me what you're trying to solve.
Email Scott