I'm Patrick. I design and build products end-to-end, and I've been doing it for about a decade, usually at small teams where one person holding the whole picture matters more than an org chart.
An extra pair of hands that designs and builds.
I design and build digital products end-to-end. No handoff, no 'waiting on dev', nothing lost in translation. I work with founders and small teams who need someone who can hold the whole picture, from the first Figma frame to the deployed thing running in production.
The Engagement
4–12 weeks
Embed
Week 1 - learn the team and the product.
Ship
Weeks 2+ - weekly delivery, async-first.
Handoff
End - your team owns everything.
Right fit if —
1.You need a design-engineer embedded in a team for 1–3 months
2.You're building an internal tool and want it to feel like a product, not a form
3.You have a vague mandate ('make the app better') and need someone to own it
4.You're a founder who wants design and engineering in one brain
Ship list
Over an engagement:
→ Weekly shipped features
→ Design system work
→ Weekly retros & check-ins
→ Clean handoff docs
→ Design system work
→ Weekly retros & check-ins
→ Clean handoff docs
The leverage
01
AI-paired, human-owned
Claude drafts, I review and edit. That's 2-3x output without the slop, and every line of code gets read by me before it gets committed.
02
Design + build in one brain
No Figma-to-Jira tax, no handoff meetings, no 'that's not quite what I meant.' The person making the pixel decisions is the person writing the JSX.
Recent work
FAQ
Who owns the code?+
You do. Day one. It's in your repo, under your licence, no strings.
Do you work with designers / other engineers already on the team?+
Yes, often. I pair well. I can also work alone if that's what you need.
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