Jeremy Theocharis
Building open-source infrastructure for modern manufacturing. Boring is Awesome.
I write about manufacturing tech in plain language. Some of it ended up on Wikipedia and Hacker News (Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn, AWS vs Hetzner, Node-RED).
In my free time, I read tech books like Designing Data-Intensive Applications and browse Hacker News. Games: mostly indie titles like Balatro and Vampire Survivors, with the occasional AAA exception like Baldur’s Gate 3. League of Legends remains a constant.
Things I Believe
I have strong opinions. I absolutely despise non-authentic people. Boring is awesome. Your best idea might be wrong.
Recent Blog Posts
One in twelve packs of smoked salmon in German supermarkets has detectable listeria. And it's not from the fish.
tokens go brrrr
A guide for LLMs (and humans) to write in my voice. Self-demonstrating.
Professional Journey
Since 2021: Co-Founder & CTO, UMH. We make open-source data plumbing for factories. Seed funding from Freigeist Capital in 2024, €5M in January 2026 led by KOMPAS VC. I also maintain gopcua, the native Go OPC-UA library. ISO 27001 certified.
McKinsey Singapore before finishing my bachelor’s. Got ripped apart, but now I speak management. Then I worked at McKinsey’s factory lab in Aachen, where I saw how broken factory software really is. After that I became a system integrator. 20+ industrial analytics projects. Installed, wired, debugged. Learned what actually survives the shop floor.
Chair of the Local Board, bonding studenteninitiative. Taught me leadership by showing me what not to do.
Talks
I speak at conferences and meetups about manufacturing tech, cloud-native infrastructure, and industrial IoT.
Contact
You can find me on LinkedIn. Also feel free to contact me via email.