Patrick Schmied

Product Engineer | Founder, Project Auxo | Researching and building at the intersection of art, culture, and distributed technologies.

Los Angeles, California, United States

About

The next industrial revolution won’t be driven by AI alone. It will be driven by intelligent systems that connect people, machines, data, and decision-making into a unified operational fabric. I’m the Founder and CEO of Project Auxo, where we’re building the infrastructure for that future. My work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, industrial operations, distributed systems, edge computing, and organizational design. For more than a decade I’ve worked across software engineering, automation, manufacturing technology, and cloud platforms, helping organizations navigate increasingly complex operational environments. Today, I am focused on a larger question: How do we create systems that enable humans and AI to collaborate effectively across real-world industrial environments? At Project Auxo, we’re developing AI-native platforms that help organizations move beyond dashboards and automation toward operational intelligence—systems capable of understanding context, coordinating action, and supporting human decision-making at scale. I believe the future belongs to organizations that can successfully integrate: • Human expertise • Machine intelligence • Operational awareness • Distributed execution The companies that achieve this won’t simply become more efficient. They’ll fundamentally change how work is organized, how decisions are made, and how value is created. I’m always interested in conversations about: * Industrial AI * Industry 4.0 * Agentic systems * Manufacturing technology * Distributed and edge computing * Human-AI collaboration * Operational intelligence * The future of work and industry

Experience

  • Founder & Product Engineer at Stealth AI Startup
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

    Trustless AI infrastructure for the new economy.

  • Advisor at Red Bison
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Founder at Project Auxo
    Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Distributed compute, storage, and inference R&D lab. Real world applications for edge-to-cloud infrastructure.

  • Advisor at Space and Time
    May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

    At Space and Time, we are solving Web3’s toughest data analytics challenges at planetary scale with decentralized, peer-to-peer technology. Projects built on top of Space and Time become blockchain interoperable, crunching SQL for apps + data scientists + smart contracts… anyone needing verifiable tamperproofing, blockchain security, and enterprise scale. We turn any major blockchain into a familiar database by connecting off-chain storage with on-chain analytic insights.

  • Emotive (Los Angeles, California, United States)
    • Principal Product Manager, Platform
      Jul 2022 - Nov 2022 · 5 mos

    • Principal Product Manager
      May 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

    • Senior Product Manager
      Oct 2020 - May 2021 · 8 mos