Andris Strals Potters Bar, UK

things I've built

A sample. Medical, aerospace, industrial, finance — different domains, same job: make the hard part work.

Selected work is marked with a teal rule.

Videographic recorder rewrite

I replaced the parsing and execution engine inside a legacy videographic recorder without destabilising it, handling far more equation complexity while cutting execution time and adding functionality.

Zuhlke Engineering Ltd · 2012–2021 · C++

Cardiac monitor rewrite

I built core libraries, an OS abstraction layer, and the application layer behind a QML UI for a cardiac monitor, running the same code across Windows, QNX and Linux.

Zuhlke Engineering Ltd · 2012–2021 · Qt/QML, C++, Linux, QNX, Windows

Pension system modernisation

I built new microservice features in a Java 8 system moving from monolith to distributed architecture, and coached the client team on Agile along the way.

Zuhlke Engineering Ltd · 2012–2021 · Java, Agile Delivery

NewtonOS prior-art investigation

I reverse-engineered the discontinued NewtonOS to establish prior art in input-method handling, and wrote the technical reports that supported a non-infringement case.

Zuhlke Engineering Ltd · 2012–2021 · NewtonOS

Radiotherapy collimator interface

I led development of the TCP/IP interface between a radiotherapy collimator's control hardware and the upper-level control system.

Zuhlke Engineering Ltd · 2012–2021 · TCP/IP, C++

Soundcraft mixer automation

I owned the automation system and low-level interfaces for Soundcraft's Si and CSi digital mixers, including the features that let engineers remote-control audio sources.

Soundcraft, Harman International Industries Ltd · 2008–2011

POS terminal platform

I led the core-library team for a new POS terminal hardware platform, building the foundation the terminal application was built on.

Hypercom Latvia Ltd · 2002–2007

Feed-handler modernisation

I modernised core feed-handler modules with C++17 and multithreading, improving throughput and latency benchmarks.

Morningstar Inc · 2024–2026 · C++, Multi-threading

Real-time IPC libraries

I wrote performance-optimised IPC libraries for real-time data exchange across heterogeneous processing units, improving data-flow reliability.

ALL.SPACE · 2023–2024 · C++, Real-time data