Services

Advisor-led technical work with the option to get hands-on.

Van Der Wall Tech helps growing teams clarify technical concerns, prioritize the right work, and execute through fractional engineering leadership or scoped technical execution.

You are hiring an advisor who can also be hands-on when the work requires it. Van Der Wall Tech is not staff augmentation.

Primary entry offer

Engineering Health Review

Engineering Health Review - scoped to your area of concern.

The review is designed for teams who know something technical is creating pressure but need clarity on what is wrong, what matters first, and what roadmap the team can act on.

What is included

  • One focus area
  • 60-minute discovery call
  • Review typically completed over one to two weeks
  • Direct system access where company policy allows
  • Screenshots, exports, documents, and guided walkthroughs when direct access is not available
  • Findings document
  • Diagrams where useful
  • Risk summary
  • Recommendations
  • 30/60/90-day roadmap
  • Readout call

Focus areas

Choose the technical area creating the most pressure.

Service area

Engineering Operations Review

Evaluate how work moves from idea to production: planning, SDLC, CI/CD, releases, code review, documentation, and team operating rhythm. This is useful when the team is growing but delivery feels harder to predict than it should.

Review focus

  • Planning flow
  • Release process
  • CI/CD hygiene
  • Code review practices
  • Documentation gaps
  • Operating cadence

Service area

Reliability & Production Readiness

Review production readiness, observability, alerting, deployment safety, backup/recovery practices, runbooks, SLOs/SLIs, database reliability, operational ownership, cloud architecture, and recurring operational risks. This is site reliability engineering consulting, not emergency incident response or 24/7 on-call coverage.

Review focus

  • Observability
  • Alert quality
  • Deployment safety
  • Backup/recovery
  • Runbooks
  • Operational ownership

Service area

Security & Technical Risk Review

Identify practical security and technical risk gaps across cloud posture, IAM/access controls, secrets management, SDLC security practices, customer security questionnaires, vendor/tooling gaps, logging/auditability, backup/recovery posture, compliance readiness, and security roadmap planning.

Review focus

  • Cloud posture
  • IAM/access controls
  • Secrets management
  • SDLC security
  • Auditability
  • Security roadmap

Exclusions

  • No penetration testing
  • No SOC 2 ownership
  • No legal compliance sign-off
  • No managed security monitoring
  • No incident response

Service area

Cloud Cost & Architecture Review

Understand what is driving cloud spend, where architecture is adding cost or risk, and what changes would improve scalability and efficiency. The work can include AWS architecture review, cloud cost drivers, scalability concerns, infrastructure complexity, application architecture tradeoffs, and cost-aware roadmap recommendations.

Review focus

  • AWS architecture review
  • Cloud cost drivers
  • Scalability concerns
  • Infrastructure complexity
  • Application architecture tradeoffs
  • Cost-aware recommendations

Service area

Scoped Technical Execution

After the path is clear, Van Der Wall Tech can help implement the plan through AWS/Terraform work, CI/CD cleanup, observability setup, cost optimization, architecture documentation, tooling selection, security tooling setup, workflow/process tooling, or team enablement.

Review focus

  • AWS/Terraform work
  • CI/CD cleanup
  • Observability setup
  • Cost optimization
  • Architecture documentation
  • Team enablement

Boundaries

What this is not

Van Der Wall Tech does not provide 24/7 on-call coverage, emergency incident response, help desk support, penetration testing, compliance certification, managed security monitoring, legal/compliance sign-off, long-term outsourced engineering departments, generic product feature work, or generic staff augmentation.

The work is focused on senior technical evaluation, roadmap creation, fractional engineering leadership, and clearly scoped execution.

  • 24/7 on-call coverage
  • Emergency incident response
  • Help desk support
  • Penetration testing
  • Compliance certification
  • Managed security monitoring
  • Legal/compliance sign-off
  • Long-term outsourced engineering departments
  • Generic product feature work
  • Generic staff augmentation

Start a conversation

Need clarity on a technical concern? Start a conversation.

Send a short note about the pressure your team is feeling. The first conversation is about understanding what is happening and whether an Engineering Health Review is the right next step.

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