Electronic Engineer - University of Moratuwa
Nirosh Lakshan
Started Anode as a two-person layout desk in 2025. Still signs off every schematic before it reaches layout, and takes the first call on a new brief.
About Anode
The engineering team behind other people's products
Companies come to us with a block diagram, a competitor's board, or nothing but a problem. We take it through schematic, layout, firmware and enclosure until a factory can build it without asking questions.
Who we are
We Design We Develop
Anode is a hardware design house. We are not a staffing agency renting out seats by the hour, and we are not a factory quoting on someone else's drawings we own the design, from the first block diagram to the files the assembler loads. That matters most at the seams. Layout that ignores the enclosure, firmware written against a schematic nobody re-checked, a BOM chosen without asking what the assembler can actually place — every expensive respin we have been called in to fix started at a handover between two teams who each did their part correctly. Keeping the whole product with one team is how those handovers stop existing.
4+
Years in hardware
1
Projects delivered
64
Layers max layout
1 day
Typical reply to a brief
How we work
Four things we do not compromise on
One team owns the product
Electronics, embedded and mechanical engineers sit on the same project, so the enclosure knows where the connectors are and the firmware knows what the layout did.
Manufacturing priced in from day one
Fabrication and assembly constraints are design inputs, not a review gate at the end. A board we sign off is a board a factory has already agreed it can build.
Review gates, not surprises
Schematic, placement, routing and sample each end in a review you sign. Nothing moves to the next stage on our word alone.
Your design is yours
Source files, libraries and the full build package are handed over at the end of the project. No hostage formats, no per-year licence on your own product.
The brains behind
The engineers who will own your product
Not a bench of anonymous resources. These are the people who sign the reviews, take the calls and answer for the board when it reaches the factory.
Electronic Engineer - University of Moratuwa
Sajitha Madugalle
High-density and high-speed layout for two decades. If a board has a 64-layer stack or a 0.35 mm pitch BGA, it crossed this desk.
Track record
How the practice grew
2015
Started as a layout desk
Two engineers taking overflow PCB layout for regional contract manufacturers.
2018
Hardware design added
Schematic capture, power and signal integrity brought in-house, so boards arrived designed rather than merely routed.
2021
Firmware and enclosure
Embedded and mechanical engineers joined, and Anode began delivering whole products instead of parts of them.
2024
Certification support
Pre-compliance testing and documentation packages added, closing the last gap between a working sample and a shippable product.
Tell us what you are building
Send the brief today — an Anode design engineer scopes it free of charge and replies within one business day.