About the studio

A small studio at the seam between the shop floor and the browser.

Andon was founded on a simple observation: the buyers who need modern web software most — the machine builders, integrators, and manufacturers running twenty-four seven — struggle to find engineers who can talk to both a PLC and a browser. The two skills live in different worlds, and the gap costs real money.

The studio grew out of a decade of automation engineering — Siemens S7 PLCs, KUKA robotics, OPC-UA, industrial networking, on-site commissioning. Around that, a modern software practice: Python backends, SvelteKit frontends, PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB, Docker deployments, WebSocket real-time. The combination is unusual and, for the right project, disproportionately valuable.

We work on operator dashboards, custom web HMIs, IoT platforms, telemetry pipelines, and the software layer that connects shop-floor data to the tools people use to run the business. We prefer engagements where the software has to be honest — where operators depend on it, where a stale timestamp is a real problem, and where "prototype quality" would embarrass everyone involved.

Founded by Andrei. Working remotely across the EU, with occasional travel. Currently accepting a small number of new engagements.

Selected experience

  • 2022 — present

    Andon — Founder & Principal Engineer

    Web HMIs, OPC-UA pipelines, telemetry dashboards. Direct work with machine builders and integrators across Europe.

  • 2018 — 2022

    Senior Software Engineer — Industrial automation team

    Lead engineer on distributed PLC/HMI software. Generalised experience writing fault-tolerant control software that runs unattended for months.

  • 2014 — 2018

    Full-stack developer

    Built and shipped customer-facing dashboards and SaaS products. The web side of the resume.

  • 2012 — 2014

    Embedded firmware (early career)

    Microcontroller and bus-level work. Where I learned the difference between code that works and code that runs at 4am unsupervised.

Stack & tools

Languages
TypeScriptPythonC / C++SQLStructured Text (IEC 61131-3)
Web
SvelteKitReactTailwindNodeFastAPIWebSockets
Industrial
OPC-UAMQTT / Sparkplug BS7 / ModbusPLC HMI designTwinCAT, Codesys
Data
PostgresTimescaleDBRedisParquetGrafana
Infrastructure
DockerCloudflareLinux on edge devicesCI/CD on GitHub Actions