Hunor Networking is a one-workshop engineering firm in Maryland. We have been building and running networked systems since 1993, and we still run some of the ones we built first.
The short version
The company began in 1993 building sites for non-profit organisations, in the years when that meant hand-written markup and a server you administered yourself. It was established as Hunor Networking in 2000 and incorporated as a Maryland LLC in 2003. The founder is a licensed Professional Engineer and a former Senior Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, with a civil engineering degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.
That background is not incidental. Engineering practice assumes that what you build will be inspected, maintained and held to account long after you have moved on. That is an unusual assumption in web work, and it is the one this firm is organised around.
What the record shows
Over three decades the client list has included the Carnegie Institution of Washington, NASA-funded field science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Patent and Trademark Office Society and its journal, Columbia Artists Management, and a long tail of associations, small businesses and cultural institutions.
In most of those engagements the public website was the smallest deliverable. The work was the database schema, the server, the data transport, the registration and membership records, the mailing infrastructure, the reporting. The browser was simply the cheapest way to put a form in front of a user.
How we are set up
Deliberately small. The firm has always worked as a principal engineer with specialist contractors brought in by discipline — database and systems work, software development, design — rather than as a staffed agency. That keeps overhead low enough to take on a five-year custodianship or a grant-funded archive at a price an institution can actually approve.
It also concentrates risk in one person, which we treat as a real problem rather than a selling point. Documentation, plain tooling and standard formats exist so that the systems we run can be handed to someone else without archaeology.
Where we work
Sunderland, Maryland. Clients are mostly in the United States, with a standing body of work serving Hungarian-American institutions and their counterparts in Hungary and Transylvania.