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