Summary
Patrick Sobrak-seaton is a Senior Product Designer with eight years’ experience crafting user-centered interfaces and design systems, currently based in Berlin and simplifying access to geospatial data at UP42. He leads the development and adoption of "UP42 Douglas," a tokenized design system and component library that scales design and engineering across the organization while serving as primary designer for user-facing domains like onboarding, credits, and org management. Patrick has a track record of launching cross-platform products and guiding pivots informed by UX research from his work at Liberate Science, where he helped move a peer-to-peer desktop app into a centralized web product. Fluent in both visual and product design, he brings agency-honed end-to-end delivery experience for public-sector clients and a pragmatic approach to design process, collaboration, and sprint-based product planning. A California native with multilingual localization experience, he blends craft-driven visual sensibility with systems thinking to make complex data and workflows feel simple and accessible.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Art & Design, Art & Design at De Anza College
San José State University
Bachelor's degree (Partial), Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor's degree (Partial), Industrial and Product Design at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
German, English