Why Fortem exists.
Six years of operating ECS Fargate at fleet scale taught us something every senior platform engineer eventually learns: the AWS Console was not built for teams running fifty environments. Neither were generic IDPs.
Every team we worked with eventually hit the same wall and rebuilt the same control plane internally — badly, over six months, for five hundred thousand dollars in engineering time. The same wheel, reinvented.
We are building it once. Properly. As an operations layer on top of your existing IaC — Terraform, Pulumi, CDK, whatever your team uses. Your infrastructure code stays your source of truth.
Built by operators, not vendors.
Fortem is built by a two-person team: an engineering founder and a product founder. We are not a vendor that discovered ECS through market research — we run it for a living.
The engineering founder operates 100+ AWS ECS environments across 4 regions, today, at a fintech serving 85+ global financial institutions. Built an internal developer platform adopted org-wide within 6 months — saving 6–7 engineering hours per day across R&D, QA, Product, and Sales. Cut cloud costs 55% with Fargate Spot, automated scheduling, and RDS auto-scaling. Before that: led a 200TB cloud migration at a clinical genomics platform later acquired by a major health-tech corporation. Founded a VC-backed developer-platform startup that reached paying customers. Compliance is home turf: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA — least-privilege IAM, full audit logging, the works.
The product founder brings a decade in B2B SaaS — product design, frontend engineering, and go-to-market. The Fortem console and the demo you have seen on this site: that is her work. Translating infrastructure complexity into an interface platform engineers actually want to use is the whole job.
ECS environments operated in production today
financial institutions served by that infrastructure
cloud cost reduction delivered at fleet scale
engineering time saved by the internal platform we built
You will meet us on the first call.
We keep this page name-free, and we would rather tell you why than pretend it is normal: the engineering founder still operates production infrastructure in a regulated industry, and we separate those worlds deliberately.
What we do not do is hide. You meet the engineering founder — the person who designed the Fortem IAM model — on your first call. The security packet comes with names attached. The contract is signed with Cybrix, LLC, a registered US company. No sales reps, no handoffs: the people on the call are the people who built the product and the people who run your onboarding.
Small team. That is a feature.
- Every call is with an engineer who has operated ECS at fleet scale — not a sales rep with a script.
- Onboarding is managed by us personally, on every plan.
- Support answers come from the people who wrote the code.
- Roadmap conversations happen directly with the founders. If something is missing, you are one Slack message away from the person who can build it.