Patrick Brouwer
Founder & Creator
's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPatrick Brouwer is a creative software engineer and founder with 15 years building rich web experiences, currently leading Spirit, a real-time browser animation tool. He blends front-end craftsmanship (React, TypeScript, Node) with a strong design and motion sensibility, having shipped HTML5 projects for agencies and brands while maintaining open-source contributions like improvements to pixi-react. As an indie-maker and longtime teacher, he pairs hands‑on product development with the ability to explain and prototype complex interactions for users and teams. Based in the Netherlands, he stays on the bleeding edge of web tech weekly and brings a musician’s attention to rhythm and polish—evident in both his tooling and UI work.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia Design, Grafisch Lyceum EindhovenBachelor of ICT Creative Development, Bachelor of ICT Creative Development at Communication & Multimedia Design, Breda
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
pixijs10
react10
ui-components10
generics6
typescript-generics6
type-inference6
typescript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pixijs/pixi-react
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Write PIXI apps using React declarative style
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:103 releases, 5 reviews, 762 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Patrick's commits primarily focused on updating and maintaining the React-based UI components of the `pixi-react` repository. The updates involved changes to the core rendering logic within `lib/` and `src/` directories, including changes to the production checks and react-pixi-fiber. The commits show the addition of new components like `Mesh` and `Rope`, and also the updating of textures as well. The user was also involved in setting up tests.
reactreact-fiberjavascriptdeclarativerenderer
Animately/action-workflows
Dec 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:184 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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