David Schmelzer
Exploring the intersection of AI, performance engineering, digital media, Zen practice, and purposeful living.
A forward thinking individual with broad background in Engineering, Strategy, Learning & Teaching, Media and Communications.
A technologist with a contemplative spine.
Decades across information technology, performance engineering, capacity management, AI-assisted documentation, and workflow automation — paired with a long meditation practice and Zen teaching focused on aware living.
The same instinct shows up everywhere: build clean systems, remove friction, design for performance, and leave space for meaning. Whether it is a load test, a guided sit, a video edit, or a fiction draft — the work is the same work.
Six bodies of work, one through-line.
Technology and consciousness, systems and stories, performance and presence.
Selected ventures.
Ongoing platforms, businesses, and creative projects.
Practical meditation for actual lives.
WelMed teaches meditation as a daily skill, not a belief system. Zen teaching goes deeper into mindfulness, compassion, the architecture of ego and judgment, and the end of suffering — in plain language, for people with work to do.
Explore meditationTopics covered
- Mindfulness & attention
- Compassion & non-harm
- Ego, identity & judgment
- Suffering & its end
- Stillness & silence
- Aware living, every day
Systems that compound, media that scales.
Performance engineering and AI strategy on one side. Performatech and digital media production on the other. Same posture: design once, reuse often, measure everything, ship calmly.
See servicesPerformance & capacity
Load testing, capacity planning, AI-assisted documentation, and process automation inside technical organizations.
Performatech
AI automation, content systems, and SOP libraries for small businesses that want to grow without burning out.
Digital media
Video, audio, writing, and AI-generated media built into reusable, income-producing asset libraries.
Cinematic, imaginative, visionary.
A growing body of fiction exploring meditation, human potential, awakening, resonance, hidden powers, and the transformation of consciousness — written for readers who like their fiction with depth and pulse.
Read the writingThemes
- 01Meditation as portal
- 02Awakening & resonance
- 03Hidden powers
- 04Ancient wisdom, modern stakes
- 05Consciousness transformation
What's running right now.
Leseros
An elegant, tasteful art and philosophy project on beauty, eros, embodiment, and artistic expression — mature, non-explicit, and considered.
Personal Growth & Life Design
Health, energy, habits, journaling, financial growth, productivity, and long-term life planning — disciplined self-development as a creative practice.
Build somethingthat matters.
AI consulting, digital media projects, meditation teaching, writing collaborations, small business automation, or creative ventures — start a conversation.
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