Michael Dominick
Mike Dominick, Coder Radio Host & The Mad Botter Founder
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Michael Dominick is a software engineer, open-source maintainer, and founder of The Mad Botter Inc. He works at the intersection of legacy systems, industrial data, and modern analytics, helping organizations modernize without breaking what already works.
He is the creator of Dredger-IoT, an open-source Ruby-based industrial telemetry agent designed to run at the edge, where unreliable networks, constrained hardware, and decades-old systems are the norm rather than the exception. His work focuses on pragmatic engineering: building systems that survive real environments before layering on automation and AI.
Michael is also the host of Coder Radio, a long-running technology podcast where he speaks with developers and industry practitioners about software craftsmanship, tooling, and the human side of engineering.
With experience spanning Ruby, Python, ETL pipelines, and industrial IoT, Michael brings a grounded, experience-driven perspective to topics often dominated by theory & hype.
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AI at the Edge: What We Learned Building an Open-Source Industrial IoT Stack in Ruby
Industrial IoT is usually discussed at the cloud or dashboard layer, but the hardest problems often live much closer to the machines.
This talk shares lessons learned building Dredger-IoT, an open-source Ruby-based telemetry agent designed to run at the edge, collect industrial data, and feed modern analytics and AI systems without rewriting existing infrastructure.
Rather than focusing on hype or vendor tooling, we will explore the practical realities of edge systems:
Interfacing with legacy equipment and protocols
Operating in unreliable, resource-constrained environments
Designing data pipelines that are resilient before they are “intelligent”
From there, we look at where AI actually fits — not as a replacement for good engineering, but as a force multiplier once reliable telemetry exists.
Topics include:
Why most AI initiatives fail before data ever reaches the model
Designing edge software that survives the real world
Using lightweight agents to bridge legacy systems to modern platforms
Open-source tradeoffs when building industrial software
This session is grounded in real code, real deployments, and real mistakes. It is aimed at developers and team leads who want to understand how edge data, open source, and AI intersect outside of idealized architectures.
Attendees will leave with a clearer mental model of edge-first systems and concrete ideas they can apply in their own environments.
Michael Dominick
Mike Dominick, Coder Radio Host & The Mad Botter Founder
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