Owner-led. Owner-accountable.

My wife and I came to California in 2019 as political refugees. I was born in Ukraine, spent most of my adult life in Russia, and left when principled opposition to the regime was no longer safe for our family. This was three years before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine — we were people who refused to compromise, not people fleeing active war. We were in our early thirties, arriving in the Bay Area with five thousand dollars and no contacts. My father had been an engineer in industrial safety at thermal power stations back home, and those engineering roots are what pulled me toward trades that work with real systems. I started with appliance repair — a trade I could learn fast, a way to pay rent, and (as it turned out) the foundation of everything that came after.

Within a year, sealed refrigeration clicked for me. Compressors, refrigerant pressures, the physics of heat exchange. Refrigeration took me into air conditioning, AC took me into HVAC. I founded ADRIUM Service Solutions in 2021 and passed the California Contractor License exam myself (CSLB #1136642). I didn’t buy a license or transfer one — I studied, sat for it, passed. In 2025 I earned factory training at the Daikin/Goodman plant in Houston — a 16,000-employee Texas facility that stands behind every heat pump we install.

Bay Area HVAC Service is the HVAC-focused brand of ADRIUM. We’re family-run: my wife handles the back office, I’m in the field. We work with a small, consistent crew of four — two technicians and two installers — under our insurance and our license. For installations and complex service quotes, I meet you personally. For routine service calls, our certified technicians arrive — every invoice carries my license number, every estimate I review before it reaches you. When something goes wrong, the person you’re calling is me. That’s what “family-owned” means here.