ABOUT

From heavy machinery
to web systems.

I’m Michael Hurzhi — a web developer with an engineering background and fifteen years of shipped work. This page is the person behind the six directions.

Web developer since 2011Engineer by trainingUS agency partner since 2018Austrian EPU
BACKGROUND

I started building websites in 2011 — MODX first, then WordPress, front-end production and everything around it. Web work has been my profession ever since.

Before the web took over completely, I trained as a mechanical engineer and spent five years in heavy-machinery purchasing and logistics. That world runs on specifications, suppliers and deadlines with real consequences — it is where my habit of owning the last mile comes from.

Since 2018 I have been the long-term technical partner of a US agency, Cre8MediaHub — Senior Technical Lead for Web Systems, Infrastructure & AI. In 2026 I registered my own Austrian EPU in Dornbirn and now combine client work with my own products.

The way I build has changed a lot since 2011. Today AI does most of the typing — design directions, front-end code, content structure, tooling — while I hold the vision, the context and the responsibility for what actually ships. A page builder, a custom theme or a hand-coded front end are just different tools for the same job: a site that works for its owner long after launch.

Alongside client work I run my own products — Solarstorm.today, a bilingual space-weather service on live NOAA data, and a set of analysis tools around nutrigenomics and DNA data. They are where I test ideas first, so what reaches clients has already been through production once.

I work remotely from Dornbirn, Austria, with clients mostly in the US and the DACH region, and I prefer written communication — a clear brief and a written decision trail beat a call almost every time.

michael hurzhi
Michael Hurzhi — portrait
FACTS
LOCATION

Dornbirn, Austria

Originally from Mariupol, Ukraine. Working remotely worldwide.

LANGUAGES

English-first workflow

English — working language with US clients since 2018 (B2, British Council). German — improving (A2). Ukrainian and Russian — native.

BUSINESS

Registered Austrian EPU

IT / web development services. Invoices, contracts and Impressum — all in order for direct collaboration.

FOCUS

Ship and maintain

AI-assisted development, WordPress, systems and automation — built to stay in production, not just to launch.

HOW I THINK

I think in systems and long cycles. AI changed the economics of building software; I treat it as a production multiplier and take responsibility for what ships.

Owning my own products — a bilingual space-weather service with a public MCP server among them — keeps that responsibility honest: there is no one else to hand the pager to. Off screen: space weather (obviously), genomics as a data hobby, and the classic PC games I grew up on.

HAVE A PROJECT, A TECHNICAL MESS, OR A GOOD IDEA?

Let's make it work.

michael@hurzhi.com ↗
DORNBIRN, AUSTRIAREMOTE WORLDWIDEREGISTERED AUSTRIAN EPU