About Fortis Data Group

The data layer is where AI actually fails

Fortis Data Group engineers the layer underneath analytics and AI, from the cloud infrastructure up through the data platform, so an organization can prove where its data came from and defend it under audit.

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Public Trust  ·  Federal Civilian
DoD Secret  ·  Founder and Managing Member, active
U.S. Citizen  ·  Available Nationwide

Our mission

To deliver the data platform, cloud, and AI engineering that mission-critical programs actually need: deep, accountable, and tied to outcomes. Fortis exists because too many programs have their technical decisions made by people who will not be there to live with the consequences. We stay on the work from discovery through handoff.

Our vision

Organizations should not have to choose between moving quickly on AI and being able to prove what they built.

Our operating principle

Engineer data layers that hold up under audit, under load, and under scrutiny.

Why Fortis exists

Fortis Data Group was founded on something visible from inside large modernization programs: organizations invest heavily in analytics and AI, and then stall. Not because the model is wrong, but because nobody can answer the questions that come next. Where did this data come from. What happened to it. Why should anyone trust the output.

Those are not model problems. They are lineage, quality, provenance, retention and access control problems, which is to say database and data engineering problems wearing an AI hat. In a regulated environment they are asked by an auditor, an authorizing official or a general counsel before anything reaches production, and that is where pilots die.

Fortis today

Fortis Data Group is a specialized data, cloud and AI engineering firm, with platform reliability, DevSecOps, analytics and security capability organized around the data mission. We work with commercial organizations, federal agencies, defense programs and the prime contractors who deliver them. Data remains the core: the infrastructure, automation, security and analytics disciplines around it exist to make the platform reliable, scalable, defensible and useful.

Every engagement is senior-led. Technical leadership stays accountable from discovery through handoff, with direct access to the engineers responsible for delivery.

Experience behind Fortis

Fortis brings together practitioners with hands-on experience across federal civilian, defense and large commercial environments. Key personnel experience spans data and database platforms, AWS GovCloud and multi-cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and DevSecOps, SRE and observability, analytics and AI/ML infrastructure, cybersecurity governance and compliance. That breadth extends the engineering disciplines around the data platform without changing what sits at the center.

Experience described here includes work performed by Fortis key personnel in prior and current professional roles and is not represented as Fortis Data Group corporate past performance.

Our approach

Senior-led from first call to handover. The engineers responsible for the architecture remain accountable through implementation.

1 Point of accountability

Our expertise

Data platform and database engineering at the core, supported by cloud infrastructure, modernization, SRE and DevSecOps, analytics, AI infrastructure and security disciplines.

4 Cloud platforms in production

Our experience

Delivered inside FedRAMP, FISMA, DoD RMF, HIPAA, SOX and SOC 2 environments, where records must be defensible rather than merely available.

100+ Key personnel migrations, no data loss
Mission first

Outcomes over elegance

Technical decisions get made against the outcome that matters to the program, not the most interesting architecture available.

Delivery

The same hands, start to finish

Whoever scopes the engagement delivers it. No knowledge transfer lag, and no gap between the proposal and the people who show up.

Cleared

Ready on day one

Existing clearances mean no adjudication wait on federal work. We can engage while others are still in processing.

Compliance

Built in, not bolted on

FedRAMP, FISMA, and DoD RMF constraints shape the architecture from the first design session rather than getting retrofitted before an audit.

Database platforms

SQL ServerPostgreSQLOracleMySQLMariaDBMongoDBDynamoDBRedshift

Cloud and infrastructure

AWS GovCloudAzure GovernmentOCIGCPRDS / AuroraElastiCacheTerraformAnsibleKubernetesCI/CD

Team certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate
Microsoft Certified Azure Database Administrator Associate, DP-300
HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate, 003
CompTIA Security+ ce
Cisco Certified Network Associate, CCNA
Tableau Certified Consultant
Tableau Certified Data Analyst
EDB PostgreSQL Database Administration
Oracle Linux
Epic Cogito and Caboodle Administrator

Sectors served

Federal civilianDepartment of DefenseFinancial systemsDefenseHealthcareTelecomRetail and eCommerce

Engagement models

Prime subcontractingDirect engagementTechnical advisoryProposal supportStaff augmentationProject based
Behind the mark

Strength, drawn in two letters

Fortis is Latin for strong and brave. The mark carries the whole name in one shape.

  1. FF for Fortis: its bars are data growth
  2. GG for Group: the flow between data and platform
  3. The peach bar: growth, highlighted

Ready to work with Fortis?

Tell us about your program and we will come back with an approach and engagement options.

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