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About
I am Patrick Astarita: inventor, scientist, engineer, designer, developer, & sculptor.
I've founded 3.5 companies first: Astarita Research, Inc. where I developed 25 consumer hardware product inventions, as well as novel battery technology where all of the constituents are manufactured from seaweed, which became the basis for Mantafarm Inc.
After building a shop & small factory to realize the production of products from Astarita Research, I started Factorita Industries, Inc. where we've since built four innovative manufacturing operations for clients, as well as provided Design Engineering, Design for Manufacturing and Manufacturing Execution services for about a dozen customers.
Building on my experience serving the biomedical & biotechnology customers, In 2022, I spun up Combine Biomanufacturing (dba Factorita Industries, Inc.) here we focused translating biotechnology research into original manufacturing equipment for a future where we grow everything.
In 2024, I moved to New York City where I joined Fractal Tech to build a central node & hub for the technology community in Williamsburg.
In spring of 2025, I began exploring the space between pneumatic structures and programmatic architecture, resulting in the recent launch of Pneumatter.
Following on from that, the work since has gone into Lanternade, a collection of codebase-archaeology tools and a meta-harness for developer- and agentic-experience telemetry, monitoring, and tracking, built to give teams traceability and AI-first collaborative development that scales. The contribution helix above is itself a port of one of its studio surfaces.
Projects
Lanternade: illuminated software development surface
Lanternade is a Turborepo monorepo of Next.js apps whose build pipeline outgrew standard Vercel + Turbo observability. Cache busts were unpredictable, phase durations opaque, and machine-tier variance untracked. The response was @lanternade/build-intel: a read-only structured-insight layer that parses Vercel logs, reconstructs build phases, probes remote cache, and maintains a prediction registry across 288+ builds. The package routes all build-measurement signal for 28 consumers across the monorepo without ever driving a build.
Keelstat is a Lanternade sub-app that surfaces every shipped change as a tracked log entry and orchestrates four production-observability pillars: verbose logging, auto-built OTTL transforms, traditional agent collection, and deployment soundings. A Keelstat agent ties the pillars together, keeping the system's navigational state legible from a single hull-status keel-readout. The design language (cyanotype-OBS palette, kb.signal token map, hull-blueprint chrome) is purpose-built to encode severity, route, and telemetry state at a glance.
OTTL-Vis: visual builder for OpenTelemetry transformation pipelines
OTTL-Vis is a three-pane visual editor for OpenTelemetry's transformation language: input trace on the left, a typed-transform stack (Redact, Enrich, Normalize, Modify, Filter) in the middle, and a live output diff on the right. A schema-detection layer scans the input shape and proposes operations; a compliance dashboard scores PII redaction and API-key handling in real time. The editor round-trips between the visual pipeline and exportable OTTL DSL + collector config.
The inaugural 24-hour hardware electronics hackathon
I founded and hosted the first NYC PCB hackathon: twenty-four hours in which five teams collaborated and competed to design custom power-electronics answers to real problems, each carrying a board from schematic to at least an initial prototype in Flux's copilot-enabled design tool. Eleven builders came in from defense electronics, robotics, chemical engineering, and renewable-energy installation. The mix was deliberate: what one discipline treats as settled, another has to solve from scratch.
