Rene Schmidt
Managing Director at Qwellcode GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRene Schmidt is a Hamburg-based technology leader and founder with 8+ years building companies and products at the intersection of web, blockchain and the arts. As Managing Director of Qwellcode and technical director at organizations like Museum of Crypto Art and zeroone, he blends executive strategy with hands-on engineering and Web3 product development. He co-founded POAP and drives business development for NFTs and Web3, demonstrating deep domain expertise in tokenized experiences and cultural applications of crypto. Recently he expanded into on-chain AI investing as a partner at ai16z, signaling a focus on open-source AI agents and composable blockchain infrastructure. Rene’s background in electrical engineering and industrial management gives him a systems-oriented, multidisciplinary approach to product and operations. Colleagues describe him as a “Wild Hair Pirate” who builds playful, culturally-minded tech that scales.
8 years of coding experience
Abitur, Abitur, Abitur, Abitur at Gymnasium Antonianum GesekeIndustriekaufmann, Industriekaufmann, Industriekaufmann, Industriekaufmann at HELLAElektrotechnik, Elektronik und Kommunikationstechnik, Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Kommunikationstechnik at Universität Bremen
German, English
Github Skills (44)
gateway9
nvidia9
rust8
azure8
logging8
vertex-ai8
openapi8
anthropic8
load-balancing8
azure-openai8
ai8
llm8
llmops8
openai8
langchain8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gomox/poap
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 7 pushes in 1 month
mocaOS/vibe
Dec 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:10 pushes in 7 months
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