About Us
RatchTech is a South African engineering company working across control panels, industrial software and connected monitoring. We build systems for new equipment and help existing installations do more.
Our work brings the electrical, software and operator requirements together. The aim is straightforward: reliable operation, less manual work and systems that engineers can maintain.
We started as two friends modernizing a control system that had been outgrown years earlier. Simon joined Warren after retiring from professional rugby, and Ratch Tech grew out of that work. The platform is running in production today, custom-built for our clients.
RTDUCK is the software platform we developed through this work. It supports industrial control and monitoring across standard hardware, with room to extend the system as requirements change.
Warren Fletcher
Co-Founder and CEO
Warren holds a BSc in
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
and has over a decade of professional experience in the software industry, including work with several Fortune 500 companies. During this time, he has focused on customer engagement, scalable systems, and product development for both consumer and prosumer markets.
He has also worked with a startup in the energy sector developing a novel diesel generator replacement using hydrogen and fuel cell technology.
Simon Raw
Co-Founder and CPO
As a former
Currie Cup-winning professional rugby player
with a BSc in
Mechatronics Engineering, Simon's background spans two high-performance environments where the standards are uncompromising.
Both taught the same lesson. Excellence is not talent alone. It is consistency, accountability, and an obsession with getting better over time. That belief defines Simon's approach as a founder, and our strength as a company.
Simon is fully dedicated to building Ratch Tech as a company and contributing to the development of the software platform behind it.