Groundplane Studio · Available for select work

One team.
The whole product.

Hardware projects die in the handoffs between industrial design, electronics, firmware, and the factory. Groundplane is a small senior team that does all of it. We prototype, validate on real hardware, manage sourcing and manufacturing, and ship the connected web layer.

Industrial DesignPCB DesignFirmwareDesign for ManufacturingSourcingWeb

Selected work

A few projects we've taken from first sketch through shipped product: rack-scale infrastructure, robotics electrical, and a full hardware product.

2023-2025HardwareDatacenterPCBSystems

Cloud Gaming Infrastructure

High-density gaming servers, out-of-bounds management, KVMs, power switching, storage, and rack infrastructure for a cloud gaming operator.

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2024-2025

3D Printing Robotics: Electrical System Design

Racks, harnessing, and PCBs for a large-scale 3D printing robotics platform.

HardwarePCBHarnessingRobotics

2025-present

WarpKVM

An inline KVM that sits between your computer and monitor as transparent passthrough, and is also the remote front door to every machine you own.

ProductHardwareFirmwareWeb

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About Groundplane

Hardware doesn't fail in the design. It fails in the handoffs.

Groundplane is a two-person studio that owns those seams. Founder Andrew Douglass was an integration engineering manager at SpaceX: Falcon stage avionics test, pad electrical, Starlink and GEO payload integration, fairing refurbishment. Integration is the work of making the whole vehicle ship, not any one piece of it.

For specialty work in industrial design, firmware, web, and mobile, we bring in senior people we've shipped with before. Every project has a senior owner on every discipline. No juniors running unsupervised. No handoffs that disappear into someone else's queue.