ABOUT
// ORIGIN
Ice Streams Systems is a Michigan-based firm built on the principle that the people who understand a system are the ones who should build it.
The current focus is the web: sites, applications, and the hosting infrastructure underneath them, written by hand rather than assembled from templates. That work sits on top of direct field experience in systems administration and manufacturing engineering, which is why an ISS site is treated as infrastructure and not decoration.
Discretion is a working discipline here, not a policy statement. Sensitive engagements handled accordingly.
// PHILOSOPHY
Most problems aren't technical. They're organizational. Systems fail because nobody understood the whole picture before they started building.
We understand the whole picture first. Then we build: deliberately, cleanly, without loose ends.
// CAPABILITY AREAS
- Web Design: Layout, Typography & Design Systems
- Web Development: HTML, CSS & JavaScript, Written by Hand
- Web Infrastructure: Hosting, DNS, Email & Edge Functions
- Web Applications: Authenticated Tools & Dashboards
- Rapid Digital Presence Kits: Proprietary In-House Production Tooling
- Systems Administration: Network, Identity & Infrastructure
- Networking, AV & On-Site IT: Design, Install & Support, Any Scale
- Scripting & Automation: Bash, PowerShell, C
- Embedded Systems & Microcontroller Development
- Manufacturing Engineering: CNC & Die Cast Production
- Industrial Electrical: Panel Diagnosis, Repair & Design
- Robotics: RAPID Programming for ABB Industrial Systems
// APPROACH
Direct communication. Exact deliverables. No scope creep, no upsell, no vague timelines. Work gets done or we talk about why.
The goal is not to stay small. ISS is built to grow into a firm that designs and ships its own products: embedded systems, operational dashboards, and platform software for industries that have been underserved by technology for too long.
"Built to hold."