Independent engineering practice

I build things at the intersection of systems and sound.

Software, electronic instruments, infrastructure and the ideas that connect them. Tagnat is an independent technical practice — part engineering studio, part laboratory, and a home for projects that need time to become something.

The Practice

Software & electronic instruments

The work moves between disciplines rather than staying inside one category. Some of it is commissioned. Some becomes a product. Some stay an experiment.

01 — AUDIO

Electronic instruments

Hardware and software for making, controlling and understanding sound — from practical performance tools to deliberately strange instruments.

  • DSP & plugins — audio processing, modelling, waveshaping and custom behaviour.
  • MIDI & controllers — hardware designed and optimized for playability.
  • Max for Live — focused tools for Ableton Live and experimental workflows.
  • Instrument design — electronics, firmware, interfaces and the software around them.
Microwhat is the product side of this work: custom audio tools and instruments designed and built independently.
02 — SYSTEMS

Software & infrastructure

Applications and the systems underneath them. The useful part is not only writing code, but understanding the environment in which that code has to survive.

  • Full-stack applications — architecture, backend, frontend, data and deployment.
  • Infrastructure — Linux, Docker, networking, security and reproducible deployments.
  • Automation — removing repetitive work and making systems observable and dependable.
  • E-commerce — storefronts, integrations and the infrastructure required to operate them.
03 — ENGINEERING

Complex technical systems

Problems that do not fit neatly into a single technology stack. My work spans software engineering, enterprise systems, supply-chain processes and the practical engineering required to make complex systems work together.

  • Systems architecture — understanding dependencies, interfaces and constraints before choosing the implementation.
  • Enterprise systems — SAP, planning, supply-chain processes and integration.
  • Technical problem solving — investigation, modelling, prototyping and implementation.
  • End-to-end ownership — from an ambiguous problem to something tested and operational.

The common thread is simple: understand the system first, then build the smallest thing that solves the real problem.

How I work

Understand it. Build it. Test it.

I tend to work at the boundaries: where software meets hardware, where a product meets its infrastructure, or where a complicated requirement needs to become a working system. The approach is hands-on — investigate the problem, make the important decisions early, build, measure, and iterate.

About

A technical practice with room to evolve

Tagnat is intentionally broader than a consultancy and smaller than an agency. It is a place for engineering work, independent products and experiments that may eventually turn into something larger.

I work across software development, infrastructure, enterprise systems and electronic music technology. The combination is deliberate: many of the interesting problems appear in the gaps between disciplines.

Some projects are built for other people. Others are built because the thing does not exist yet. Tagnat gives both kinds of work the same home.

Selected work

Things that actually exist

A short list of real projects. Products, systems and experiments — not portfolio filler.

Microwhat

An independent product line for custom audio tools and electronic instruments — including hardware, software and the infrastructure required to sell and operate them.

AUDIO / SYSTEMS

Prepero

A full-stack TypeScript application currently in development, exploring offline-first workflows and a self-hosted Postgres/PostGIS backend.

SOFTWARE

Independent research & prototypes

Ongoing work across electronic instruments, DSP, software, infrastructure and technical systems. Some prototypes become products; others remain useful experiments.

LAB
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