Available for new projects

I design and build software,and the websites that explain it.

Software engineer and founder of Altair Studio. I care about software that is quiet, clear and easy to read, from the product itself to the page that sells it.

Now
Master's in AI at Beijing Jiaotong University
Based in
Beijing, working with teams anywhere
Studio
Founder of Altair Studio since 2023

Selected work

Products I designed and built end to end, from the first sketch to the code in production.

2023 to now

Altair Studio

My studio. I turn hard-to-explain products into websites every buyer on the committee understands: positioning, copy, design and code, at a fixed price.

altair-studio.com
The Altair Studio homepage, headlined: Your product is complex. Your website should not be.
  • The Exogen landing page, headlined: Algorithms that read the tape.

    Exogen

    2026

    Trading bots that run on Binance, Hyperliquid and dYdX, with a live view of every fill.

  • The Orba landing page with a Kanban board, headlined: The Kanban your team will actually open on Monday.

    Orba

    2025

    A quiet, opinionated Kanban board for planning the sprint, running the standup and shipping the work.

  • The Devora landing page with a terminal, headlined: Project scaffolding that respects your time.

    Devora

    2026

    A plugin-driven CLI that scaffolds a project in any language from one self-contained Rust binary.

Experience and education

Portrait of Nathan Donadey

  1. 2024 to now

    Master's in AI, Beijing Jiaotong University (current)

    My second master's degree. I keep running Altair Studio remotely alongside it.

  2. 2023 to now

    Founder, Altair Studio (current)

    Positioning, copy, design and code for products that are hard to explain, built in Astro and Next.js for teams anywhere.

  3. 2026

    Software engineer, OVHcloud

    AI Core team, until August 2026. Modernized AI-Atelier, an internal diagnostic tool for AI infrastructure, with Vue.js, Kubernetes, Docker and Helm.

  4. 2025 to 2026

    Full-stack developer, NETexcom

    An ASP.NET cloud platform for accounting firms. Reworked the dashboard UX and built collaborative production tooling.

  5. 2022 to 2024

    Full-stack developer, BASE SUD

    Agency work on PHP and WordPress client sites, with a focus on performance and security.

Earlier projects

Contact

Working on a product that is hard to explain, or just want to talk about software? Write to me, I reply within a day.

nathan@altair-studio.com