Patrick Ellis
Resident Expert (AI House) at Harper Ellis, LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Ellis is a founder and AI-native software engineer with 12 years of experience building generative-AI SaaS and full-stack web systems, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of Snapbar and Resident Expert at AI2’s AI House. He has led product and engineering from early architecture to scale—shipping AI-driven photography and headshot platforms used by Google, Disney, Nike and other Fortune brands—and previously rebuilt high-velocity SaaS fronts and data pipelines at startups like Chewse and MightySignal. A community builder and educator, Patrick co-founded DubHacks and Startup UW, runs a popular YouTube channel to make AI practical for founders and engineers, and mentors youth through church programs. He also invests in local real estate development, demonstrating a knack for pairing technical product vision with tangible operational businesses. Notably, he combines hands-on engineering (React, Python/Django, multimodal AI) with founder-level product and GTM experience, enabling rapid prototyping into enterprise adoption.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Gig Harbor High School
Github Skills (30)
react-redux10
django-react10
django8
django-rest-framework8
redux8
loader8
wrapper7
python7
react7
webpack-loader6
node-sass6
api-client6
api5
webpack5
sass5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OneRedOak/python-onfleet
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:45 pushes in 1 year 1 month
api-clientapifull-featuredpythonapi-wrapper
OneRedOak/poe-site
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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