Patrick Farry is a Distinguished Engineer and Principal Architect with over 20 years of experience in distributed systems for regulated industries. As the founder of Intelligence at the Edge, he architects decentralized, privacy-first AI systems, including VLMChat, a custom inference engine for local AI workloads. Patrick previously held leadership roles at Lytx, Visa and Endicia (Stamps.com), where he modernized legacy monoliths and defined “secure by design” architectures. He connects high-level vision with concrete implementation, designing domain specific languages (DSLs) for autonomous control flow. He holds multiple US patents for secure transaction and logistics systems, including specific claims regarding hardware-software security and cryptographic validation.