Patrick Pietens
Lead Design Engineer at Hedge
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPatrick Pietens is a Lead Design Engineer with 14 years of experience blending frontend craftsmanship and backend pragmatism to build polished web products used by studios like Lucasfilm, Disney, and Netflix. He pairs a designer’s eye with deep expertise in React, Next.js, Svelte, SolidJS, Tailwind and Laravel, obsessing over pagespeed, functional patterns, and elegant, maintainable code. As a hands-on team lead at Hedge and founder/CTO of Blokks, he’s shipped both studio-grade pipelines and widely used festival tools, demonstrating product-minded engineering from prototype to production. Patrick experiments constantly with emerging frameworks and treats AI as a daily productivity tool rather than a buzzword. Outside work he’s an avid photographer and world traveler whose creative instincts inform his UX-focused engineering.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Digital Arts, Master of Arts (M.A.), Digital Arts at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (53)
component-based10
react10
javascript10
typescript10
user-interface10
laravel-package10
declarative10
datetimepicker10
csv10
frontend10
timestamp10
webpush9
laravel9
gulp-concat9
exports9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
blokks/brochure
Jul 2017 - Oct 2022
Brochure website for Blokks.co
Contributions:12 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 3 months
blokksbrochure
TheSyncFactory/hedge-landingpage
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:202 pushes, 15 branches, 2 tags in 11 months
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