Direct work with a senior operator
Clients work directly with Scott throughout the engagement, from discovery through readout and any scoped execution that follows.
About
Founder-led technical consulting for growing teams.
Van Der Wall Tech is led by Scott VanDerWall, a senior engineering operator with experience across SRE, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, engineering operations, and production software environments.
Clients work directly with Scott throughout the engagement.
Founder-led consultancy
A practical engineering partner, not a generic agency.
The consultancy exists for teams that feel technical pressure but do not yet have enough senior technical capacity to diagnose it, prioritize it, and turn it into a roadmap. The work can stay advisory, become ongoing fractional engineering leadership, or move into scoped technical execution when the path is clear.
Background areas
- SRE / DevOps / cloud infrastructure
- Engineering operations
- Production software environments
- Gaming/software production experience
- Builder of BearTalent
- Hands-on AWS, application architecture, cost optimization, and workflow systems
How the work feels
Senior judgment close to the actual systems.
Growing teams often need someone who can reason across architecture, cloud cost, production readiness, security expectations, technical due diligence, engineering operations, and execution tradeoffs without turning every issue into a large transformation program.
Clear recommendations over generic advice
The work is focused on decisions, risk, sequencing, and next steps instead of broad consulting language that leaves teams with more ambiguity.
Practical execution context
Advice is shaped by hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, application architecture, reliability, engineering process, cloud cost, and workflow systems.
Start a conversation
Talk directly with the person doing the work.
Send a short note about what is creating pressure. The first conversation is about understanding what is happening and whether Van Der Wall Tech is the right fit.
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