Patrick Kirchhoff
I build AI systems at Cisco / Splunk and angel invest through P1K Ventures. Based between San Francisco and Germany.
About
I've never quite learned to stay still. There's always some unreasonable obsession pulling me forward.
Lately, that obsession has been AI engineering. I'm building, reading, and following threads on X, losing hours to whatever has captured my attention that morning. I'll keep monitoring the situation.
My luggage is almost always half-packed. I bounce between San Francisco and Germany, though my roots remain in Duisburg. That's where it all started. Where I founded Replex, a journey that eventually led to an acquisition by Cisco. Today, I'm a Director of Engineering at Cisco / Splunk, focused on AI.
I believe in luck surface area. I try to be present, between San Francisco and Berlin, wherever the interesting conversations are happening.
High agency is often just a refusal to accept the world as it is. I angel invest at the 0 to 0.5 stage, that early, messy phase where restless curiosity is a requirement for survival and where I can be of most help.
If you're building something early and think I can help, or if you just think we should chat, reach out.
Interested in: AI infrastructure, enterprise software, open source, observability, developer tools, and things that are slightly too early.