Patrick Erichsen
Founding Engineer at Continue
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Erichsen is a founding engineer with nine years of experience building developer-facing products and UX-driven front ends, currently shaping Continue’s open-source, local-first AI coding agent out of San Francisco. He combines enterprise-grade delivery from years at Target—where he led UI/UX for Product Lifecycle Automation and open-source blockchain tooling—with startup grit demonstrated by launching a housing marketplace and a popular Chrome extension. Hands-on across web and mobile stacks, Patrick’s notable open-source work on Continue focuses on improving developer workflows and polished UI components like CodeSnippetPreview, while earlier contributions to PathCheck helped ship privacy-preserving COVID tooling. Comfortable moving between product design and implementation, he’s fluent in TypeScript/React and has shipped Rust and CLI work for supply-chain projects, showing versatility beyond front-end specialization. Colleagues describe him as a practical builder who prioritizes developer experience and thoughtful UX in complex systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of MinnesotaNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English
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Github Skills (15)
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javascript10
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react-native10
mobile-development10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
hyperledger6
hyperledger-sawtooth6
android5
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
continuedev/continue
May 2024 - Apr 2025
⏩ Create, share, and use custom AI code assistants with our open-source IDE extensions and hub of models, rules, prompts, docs, and other building blocks
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 200 reviews, 722 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Patrick focused on improving the user experience within the Continue project, as evidenced by their commits. They updated user interface (UI) elements, including input fields and tooltips, and implemented new UI components such as the `CodeSnippetPreview`, demonstrating a focus on front-end development. The user also made contributions to the project’s visual presentation, updating styling configurations and providing for a new look and feel.
aichatgptcopilotdeveloper-toolsintellij
Path-Check/safeplaces-dct-app
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
COVID Safe Paths (based on Private Kit) is an open and privacy preserving system to use personal information to battle COVID
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:21 commits, 60 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the mobile application's codebase, specifically focusing on the user interface and onboarding flow. Their work included fixing typos, importing functions, and adding new features related to the onboarding process, such as healthcare selection and permission handling. They also removed an authority selection component. Furthermore, the user modified the build and setup scripts.
privacybattlepathspersonal-informationpersonal-use
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