About me

My name is Andrew Waters and I’m Chief Technology Officer at Ctrl Hub, where we are developing safety and compliance solutions for the Gas and Utility sector.

I was previously Head of Engineering at UBIO where we automated the web on behalf of Google, Trivago and Microsoft amongst many others.

And before that, I was a platform engineer at Moltin where we developed some of the first microservices (before it became a thing) in around 2015 for our ecommerce API’s.

About andon

Andon (japanese: アンドン) is a lean manufacturing mechanism for notifying management and colleagues about production problems.

Stemming from the car manufacturing industry, it aims to continually refine and improve quality thresholds as well as preventing factory line production issues where pile ups would otherwise occur and create more problems.

In it’s most extreme implementation, when an andon cord is pulled on a production line, the entire factory shuts down until the underlying issue has been resolved.

There is a some crossover from production lines to lean software manufacturing and the andon is particularly pertinent to my current role with regards to monitoring and identifying issues on large distributed systems.

That is how andon.dev was conceived.