Role

Founder · Industrial Systems Engineer 4.0

VALTIK · Paris

Industrial digitalisation for European SMEs and mid-sized companies. I founded it in April 2026 and hold the roles of product owner, architect and lead developer at once, across five domains: automation, data and artificial intelligence, infrastructure, engineering and energy consulting.

There are three published products and a five-stage intervention methodology with a deliverable at the end of each stage.

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Apr 2026 — Present

SvelteKitIgnitionOPC-UAISA/IEC 62443

Digitalisation
Data and analytics
Operations

5Activity domainsFrom automation to energy consulting

3Published productsWebsite, maturity diagnostic and IIP platform

30Diagnostic questionsSix axes, in three languages, freely accessible

GoldIgnition certificationInductive Automation, February 2025

My responsibility

Product owner, architect and lead developer across five domains: automation, data and AI, infrastructure, engineering and energy consulting. Five-stage methodology with a deliverable at each phase.

Result

Three products released: valtik.tech, audit.valtik.tech, a trilingual 30-question diagnostic across 6 axes, and VALTIK IIP, a multi-tenant monitoring platform in active development.

The challenge

Machines that do not communicate, data scattered across spreadsheets and decisions based on last week's information
The platforms designed to solve this require the budget, in-house team and time horizon of a large group
An SME rarely buys a full transformation: it buys a solved problem
A dedicated installation per plant does not bring the price down to SME level

How I approached it

Ignition Gold certificationI obtained the Gold certification from Inductive Automation in February 2025, before building an alternative to the reference platform.
Founding with a triple roleI founded VALTIK in April 2026 as product owner, architect and lead developer, so that every product decision holds up technically.
Five domains as layersI separated automation, data and AI, infrastructure, engineering and energy consulting so that a client enters through the domain that hurts.
Five-stage methodologyI defined a deliverable at the end of each stage, so that the diagnosis stands on its own even without a project behind it.
Three products publishedI published the site, the maturity diagnosis and VALTIK IIP, the multi-tenant platform I am building against ISA/IEC 62443.

Ignition Gold-level certification — Ignition certification, Gold level, from Inductive Automation, February 2025. It certifies mastery of the platform's full functionality, not just its basic configuration.

Work blocks

Product owner, architect and developer

I took on all three roles at once: no technical choice is made without knowing who will pay for it, and every product decision also has to hold up technically.

Five-stage methodology

Each engagement closes each stage with a deliverable, so that a client who has never worked with an integrator can stop at the first one and keep something usable.

Digital maturity diagnosis

Thirty questions across six axes, in three languages and freely accessible; it returns a reading per axis that a management team can use to decide where to start.

VALTIK IIP, multi-tenant supervision

A single deployment serves several clients with their data isolated, instead of one installation per plant; that architecture decision is what makes the lower price possible.

Isolation according to ISA/IEC 62443

In an industrial environment, isolation between clients is a security obligation; I built the platform against the cybersecurity framework for automation and control.

valtik.tech site

The company site presents the five domains and the engagement methodology.

In detail

The full story

Why it exists

An industrial SME has the same problems as a large group: machines that do not talk to each other, data scattered across spreadsheets, and decisions made on last week's information. What it does not have is the budget, the in-house team or the time horizon that the platforms built to solve them require.

I founded VALTIK in April 2026 to close that gap, and I hold the roles of product owner, architect and lead developer at the same time. It is a deliberate position: it forces every product decision to also hold up technically, and no technical choice to be made without knowing who will pay for it.

The five domains and the methodology

The activity is split across five domains: automation, data and artificial intelligence, infrastructure, engineering and energy consulting. They are not five independent business lines but the five layers a decision made in an office has to cross to reach an actuator on the shop floor. Separating them answers a concrete commercial reason: an SME rarely buys a full transformation, it buys a solved problem, and being able to enter through the domain that hurts and expand later is what makes the model viable at that size.

Each engagement follows five stages with a deliverable at the end of each one, so a client who has never worked with an integrator can stop after the first and still walk away with something usable. That forces the diagnosis to stand on its own even with no project behind it, and the architecture to be documented even if someone else carries out the development.

The products

The company site presents the domains and the methodology. The digital maturity diagnostic asks thirty questions across six axes, is available in three languages and is free to access: it returns a reading per axis that a management team can use to decide where to start, even if they decide to start with another provider.

The third is VALTIK IIP, a multi-tenant industrial monitoring platform in active development. A single deployment serves several clients with their data isolated, instead of a dedicated installation per plant, and it is that architecture decision that lets the price come down to SME level. It is also the one that imposes the hardest constraint: in an industrial environment, isolation between clients is not a design convenience but a security obligation, and I develop the platform against the ISA/IEC 62443 framework, the cybersecurity reference for automation and control systems.

The Ignition certification

I obtained the Ignition Gold-level certification from Inductive Automation in February 2025. Ignition is one of the market's reference monitoring platforms, and certifying in it before building an alternative was a deliberate decision.

Knowing the reference tool inside out is the only honest way to argue how your own differs from it, and it lets you talk to integrators and clients in the terms the sector already uses, rather than proposing a new vocabulary.

Results and impact

Result

Three products published

valtik.tech, audit.valtik.tech and VALTIK IIP, the latter under active development.

Free diagnosis in three languages

Thirty questions across six axes whose reading serves a management team even if it decides to start with another provider.

Ignition Gold certification

Knowing the reference platform in depth makes it possible to talk with integrators and clients in the terms the sector already uses.

Five domains, one entry point

An SME can enter through the domain that hurts and expand later; that is what makes the model viable at that size.

Stack

SvelteKitIgnitionOPC-UAPythonISA/IEC 62443

Skills used in the role

Tools

ModbusCATIAFastAPIFigmaAWSNext.jsAutodesk InventorDockerC++LinuxIgnitionJavaScriptPythonFactory I/ONode.jsGitHubGrafanaRustMicrosoft AzurePostgreSQLMQTTKubernetesOdooAdobe IllustratorTypeScriptSolidWorks Flow SimulationSiemens NXFlexSimSvelteKitCMongoDBHTML5OPC UAGitAllen-BradleyAutoCADAdobe PhotoshopRedis

Domain

SCADASoftware architectureREST APIsFull-stack developmentSoftware developmentData engineeringIIoTHMI programmingPLC programmingBusiness intelligenceIndustrial cybersecurityIndustrial automationMES

Frameworks and methods

Industrial digitalisationSmart manufacturingIndustrial engineeringProcess optimisationIndustry 4.0Business ownershipDigital transformation

Contact

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