Environment
Built lean. Run green.
Hermida Technologies is a small company with a deliberately small footprint. This page is an honest account of what we already do to reduce our environmental impact — and what we are working toward next.
- LED eco lighting
- Paperless by default
- Remote-first
- Efficient software
Practice, in numbers
Small by design. Counted honestly.
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Server rooms we heat, cool, and guard
Shared cloud infrastructure only — nothing idles on our behalf.
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Paperless by default
Proposals, agreements, and invoices are digital-first with e-signatures.
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Career paths opened
A remote-first hiring catalog with full-time and part-time roles.
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Florida price-beat guarantee
Efficiency savings passed straight back to local clients.
What we do today
Small habits, multiplied across everything we ship.
None of this is exotic. It is a series of unglamorous decisions, made consistently, that keep our footprint far below what a traditional office-first firm consumes.
Eco lighting in our offices
Our workspace runs on efficient LED eco lighting — daylight-first scheduling, motion-aware rooms, and lights that are simply off when nobody is there.
Remote-first operations
Most of our work happens from home offices. That means less commuting, a smaller leased footprint, and far fewer daily-driving emissions.
Lean, efficient software
Right-sized infrastructure and code that does more with less compute. Efficient software is not just cheaper to run — it burns less energy for every request it serves.
Paperless by default
Proposals, agreements, invoices, and documentation are digital-first with e-signatures. We print only what the law requires.
Hardware that lasts
We repair before we replace, keep machines in service for years, and use certified electronics recycling at end of life — never a drawer of dead devices.
Cloud, used carefully
We run on shared cloud infrastructure that is utilized efficiently instead of idle dedicated servers, choosing the smaller footprint wherever the work allows.
Insane-but-true
Green tech facts that sound made up.
The tech industry’s energy appetite is wilder than most people imagine. Tap a card — these are the numbers that keep us honest about building lean.
Figures are widely cited estimates (IEA, UN Global E-waste Monitor, EPA, and display-energy studies) — honest orders of magnitude, not gospel.
From sun to sprout
Every watt, on a journey.
Clean energy becomes lean compute becomes living outcomes. This is the path every efficient system we ship travels — drawn, animated, and honest.
A note from our founder
“We built this company to make work feel lighter — for the people who use our software, and for the planet it runs on.”
I started Hermida Technologies because I believe good engineering is a quiet form of kindness. Lean systems, honest pricing, and a small footprint aren’t marketing lines — they’re how a small team does right by the world while doing great work for clients. Every efficient line of code, every light we leave off, and every machine we keep alive a little longer is part of the same idea: take what you need, and be gentle with the rest.
— Luke Hermida, Founder
The Hermida story
What we’ve done along the way.
Hermida Technologies wasn’t built in a day — it was built lean, on purpose. Walk through the chapters.
Try it yourself
The lean machine.
Drag the slider and watch what “efficient by design” actually saves. This is the math behind every right-sized system we ship.
A rough, honest illustration: real workloads vary. Model assumes one ~250W always-on server per job versus shared, scale-to-zero bursts, at ~0.37 kg CO₂ per kWh (US grid average).
Always-on dedicated servers26,280 kWh/yr
Lean shared cloud, scaled to zero240 kWh/yr
Energy saved
26,040 kWh/yr
CO₂ avoided
9,635 kg/yr
Tree-years
459
“Tree-years” is the number of mature trees needed one full year to absorb the CO₂ avoided.
Honesty
We will not greenwash you.
We are a small Florida firm, and we would rather under-promise than over-decorate. Every claim on this page reflects something we actually do today. Where we cannot yet measure something precisely, we say so instead of inventing a number.
“The greenest server is the one you never had to run.”
That belief shapes how we build: the smallest system that fully solves the problem is better for your budget and the planet — and it is usually the more reliable one, too.
Where we are headed
Next on the list.
Sustainability is an ongoing practice, not a finish line. Here is what we are actively working toward.
Hosting workloads in lower-carbon cloud regions wherever practical.
Publishing a measured annual footprint summary, beginning with our 2027 review.
A certified e-waste recycling partnership for every piece of end-of-life hardware.
Carbon-aware scheduling for heavy compute jobs — running work when the grid is cleanest.
Building something? Let’s build it lean.
Efficient systems are better for your budget and the planet. Tell us what you want to run, and we will design the smallest thing that fully solves it.