Cloud
- Certified Solutions Architect, AssociateAWS
- Certified Cloud PractitionerAWS
- Azure Fundamentals, AZ-900Microsoft
Held on both major clouds, which is why a cloud engagement here is not quietly an AWS engagement with Azure listed on the brochure.
Credentials and experience
Depth you can verify.
CF Consulting Services Corp was built on two decades of combined practice across lending technology, cloud architecture, and regulated operations. Every credential below is current and independently verifiable. Every platform listed has been worked in production, not studied.
8+ yearsIn lending technology and fintech
5+ yearsInside the vendor that builds DecisionLender 4
6+ yearsOperating as an independent practice
Capability coverage
Four domains, under one roof.
Most institutions assemble this coverage from three or four separate vendors. The reason the retainer model works here is that these domains sit together, so a change that crosses two of them does not cross an invoice.
| Domain | What it covers | Where it has been delivered |
|---|---|---|
| Loan origination systems | DecisionLender 4 configuration, decision rules, classification tables, objects, events, workflow architecture, and compliance driven changes. | Credit unions and lenders, plus five years inside the platform vendor configuring client production environments. |
| Serverless cloud architecture | Event driven systems on AWS and Azure, data and file ingestion pipelines, queues and event routing, infrastructure as code, and cost shape. | Financial services and federal programs, including pipelines moving files at scale in continuous production. |
| Systems integration | Bureau, core banking, and digital banking connections. Inbound and outbound data movement, retry and failure handling, reconciliation. | An embedded finance platform serving banks and credit unions, across the vendors named below. |
| Operations and incident response | Observability, alerting, on call routing, incident triage and escalation, root cause analysis, and the documentation that stops a problem recurring. | Production incident ownership for a platform serving regulated financial institutions. |
Certifications
Current, and held across the full stack.
Cloud, infrastructure as code, and delivery discipline. Certification is a floor rather than a credential to lean on, but in a vendor review it is the part your risk team can check without taking anyone's word for it.
Infrastructure
- Certified Terraform AssociateHashiCorp
Infrastructure as code is the common layer across both clouds, which is what makes a cloud agnostic claim mean something rather than function as a slogan.
Delivery
- Certified ScrumMasterScrum Alliance
- Certified Associate in Project ManagementPMI
Technical work lands on a schedule your lending team can plan around, which is usually the difference between a change shipping and a change sitting.
Platform coverage
The systems you already run.
Integration experience across the bureau, core, and digital banking vendors a financial institution actually operates. Worked in production, in support of live members, not reviewed in a datasheet.
Lending and origination
MeridianLinkDecisionLender 4
Credit bureaus
TransUnionEquifaxExperian
Core and digital banking
Jack HenrySymitarFiservQ2BannoAlkami
Cloud and tooling
AWSAzureTerraformLambdaAzure FunctionsSQSEventBridgeLogic AppsEntraPythonGrafanaPagerDuty
How engagements are staffed
Senior coverage, with no bench to subsidise.
Every hour is a senior hour
Larger firms win the engagement with their principals and deliver it with whoever is available. Here the person who scopes the work is the person who does it. There is no junior staff learning your environment on your retainer, and nothing is handed down a tier.
Capacity scales with the book
The practice adds vetted contract capacity as engagement volume requires, under the same scope categories and the same response SLA. That keeps the model honest: capacity is defined in the agreement rather than promised against a headcount you cannot see.
Continuity is a deliberate part of the offer. A single accountable point of contact is the reason work does not stall in a queue, and it is what a pooled vendor support team cannot match.
Next step
Put it to the test
An $850 flat fee discovery call is where the credentials above meet your actual environment. You get a read on workload, band placement, and what ongoing coverage would look like.