Meet Max

From under a truck
to writing the software

I didn't come to software from a computer science classroom. I came to it from the shop floor — with a welder in one hand and a grinder in the other.

For years I built Dirtbound Offroad, fabricating and welding offroad rigs, learning the shop floor the hard way: tolerances, downtime, and the difference between a job that ships and a job that bites you. Somewhere in there I started writing code to fix the problems no off-the-shelf tool understood — getting numbers off the machines, tracking what was actually happening on the floor, turning a wall of clipboards into a screen I could trust.

That's where Astris Dynamics comes from. Astris means reaching for the stars — that's the half of me that loves building software, the part that wants to lift shops up and give them tools they didn't think a small operation could afford. But I never left the floor behind. I still think like a fabricator, because I am one. When I walk into your shop, I'm not guessing what a setup operator deals with or why your CNC data never makes it to the office — I've lived it.

Most software people have never run a machine. Most machinists have never shipped software. I do both — and that's the whole point. I'm the bridge.

From the shop floor to the stars. That's not just a tagline; it's the trip I'm taking my clients on. Let's get your shop there.

Two careers. One bridge.

If your shop lives on whiteboards and tribal knowledge, let's talk.

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