Miguel Rodriguez

Building multi-agent AI systems, on-device ML, and digitalization for Swiss and German industry.

Career & Projects

2016 — present
BigBear Engineering GmbH

Founder & Engineering Consultant · Mettmenstetten, Zürich

Engineering consultancy spanning AI infrastructure and industrial digitalization.
- 2024 — present
  
  Robot Ross
  
  Cyber-physical AI art system: Huenit robot arm driven by Claude reasoning and locally hosted Apertus 7B, with a serial bridge to a G-code controller. Produces an EU AI Act Automated Technical File as a living wiki generated automatically from source code and operational log files.
  
  GitHub Project robotross.art ATF demo
- 2026 — present
  
  Classic Reel Tales
  
  Cinematic engine for authors. Manuscripts to 90-second vertical microdramas via Claude, Runway Gen-3, ElevenLabs, Suno, and FFmpeg. Built at the Runway API Hackathon, May 2026.
  
  GitHub Project Shop YouTube
- 2025 — present
  
  Flotilla
  
  Open-source multi-agent coordination framework. Claude, Gemini, and open-weight models as a coordinated fleet with shared state, cross-model peer review, and circuit-breaker patterns.
  
  GitHub Project Demo
- 2025 — present
  
  The Classical Remix
  
  AI-generated music brand reimagining classical works across genres — Celtic, vallenato, progressive house, EDM. Four albums on Spotify.
  
  YouTube
- 2024 — 2025
  
  Klepsydra Technologies
  
  Program management for ESA certification of an embedded AI inference engine for high-performance imaging in space.
  
  klepsydra.com
- 2022 — 2024
  
  OPC UA — Wire Harness Companion Spec (OPC 40570)
  
  Led the international working group that defined the OPC UA Companion Specification for the wire harness industry, collaborating with global automotive OEMs through ARENA2036 in Stuttgart.
  
  OPC Foundation
- 2020 — 2022
  
  Next2OEM — Audi · Komax
  
  At Audi, coordinated the data communication of all Komax wire-processing machines on the production floor — part of Audi's broader AI-in-production initiative.
  
  Audi MediaCenter
- 2020 — 2022
  
  Axetris
  
  Evaluation and selection of a Manufacturing Execution System for Axetris's semiconductor production line.
- 2018 — present
  
  Komax — Digital Marketplace
  
  Program-managing the digital platform for Komax, the global market leader in wire-processing machinery. Leading a team of fifteen integrating cloud services, predictive maintenance, and AI-powered analytics.
  
  Komax Smart Services
- 2017 — 2018
  
  Kistler
  
  Integration of a Manufacturing Execution System with Kistler's sensor software for plastic injection moulding machines.
- 2016 — 2017
  
  Weavr — Virtual Reality Startup
  
  Founded Weavr, a platform to create navigable VR environments used by cities such as St. Gallen and Basel, as well as companies seeking immersive experience showcases. Successful exit to BitForge AG.
2009 — 2016

digitalSTROM AG

Director of Research & Development · Schlieren, Zürich

Directed R&D for home automation. Managed a team of thirty engineers across embedded Linux (ARM/DSP), Azure cloud back-ends, and cross-platform mobile apps. Led the first cloud-based voice control features in the home automation sector.
2005 — 2009

BridgeCo Inc. (acquired by Microchip)

Head of Digital Media Player Software Group · Dübendorf

Led software for networked audio ICs; managed twenty developers across Switzerland, India, and Eastern Europe. Initiated the project that brought Apple AirPlay into the customer portfolio.
1996 — 2005

ESEC SA (acquired by Besi)

Group Manager & Project Manager · Cham, Zug

Architected a three-tier loose-coupled architecture for semiconductor packaging machine control. Managed a CHF 5M R&D project.
1995 — 1996

Institut für Robotik · ETH Zürich

Academic Guest · Zürich

Robotics researcher on a nanorobotics project — graphical user interfaces for manipulating objects in the micro-world with a high-precision robot. Three peer-reviewed papers from this work.

Publications

2026

Flotilla: A Multi-Agent Coordination Architecture for Autonomous AI Fleets

Submitted, FMAI Workshop @ ICML 2026 · OpenReview
2024

A Process Model for Deriving Asset Administration Shells for Inter-Company Collaboration — A Practical Approach

Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (Springer), pp. 217–229
2015

Using consumer behavior data to reduce energy consumption in smart homes

IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Miami FL
2015

Energy saving in smart homes based on consumer behavior: A case study

IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, Guadalajara
2012

Smart Energy Case Study

ACM BuildSys Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings, Toronto
1997

Graphical user interface to manipulate objects in the micro world with a high precision Robot

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque NM
1996

Field experiences on the implementation of a graphical user interface in microrobotics

SPIE Photonics East, Boston MA
1996

Human Machine Interaction for manipulations in the microworld

IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, Tsukuba
1991

Development of a solid modeler using object oriented programming

SCOOP West, San Jose CA