Open to roles, fractional leadership & advising

I design and build products people actually want to use.

I'm Douglas — a designer who codes and a builder who ships. Front-end and design are where I shine, but I've worn the backend, creative-director, and marketing hats too. 35+ apps published since 2009, and I'm still ridiculously curious.

See the work
2009
Building mobile apps since
2012
Building in Unity 3D since
35+
Apps published
Ideas at 2am
What I bring

A full-stack range, with a design-shaped center of gravity.

Front-end & design

Specialty

Where I shine. Interfaces, design systems, motion, and the obsessive last 10% that makes a product feel good to touch.

Full-stack engineering

Comfortable in the backend too — APIs, data, infrastructure. I'll build the whole thing when the whole thing needs building.

Creative & marketing direction

Years as a creative director and a marketing director. Brand, story, and launch — not just the build.

Strategy & advising

I've advised startups, investment firms, and technical AI companies. I'm at home in the messy zero-to-one.

Selected work

Platforms, games, fintech, and a few quiet ones.

A slice of 35+ published apps and the private builds I can't show off. The throughline: take the idea seriously, the ego not so much.

Studio · Apps · Games · BitcoinStudio

Division 6

My studio and label — the home for the apps, games, and Bitcoin tools I design, build, and publish under one roof.

Fintech · Startup

influence.INC

A clone of the stock market that trades shares of influencers instead of companies. Buy low on someone before they go viral.

Social · Anti-disinformation

critically.io

A research network built to fight disinformation — people share sources as bite-size, linked chunks of information instead of hot takes.

Game · 3D puzzle

Lexicube 3D

A Rubik's Cube that fell in love with Scrabble. Twist letters into words across three dimensions.

Marketplace · Local

Reffo.deals

Real-time flash deals at restaurants — the scrappy first idea that eventually grew up into Reffo.ai.

Education · Finance

Bitcoin tools

Calculators and explainers for paired trades around Bitcoin — making intimidating instruments finally make sense.

Confidential

Countless private builds

Dozens of apps for people and companies that will never have a public URL. Quietly, some of my best work lives here.

Working with AI

Helping people and teams actually excel with AI.

I build AI-native products and advise AI companies for a living — agents, tooling, the works. But the part I love most is helping other people get fluent: turning "AI is overwhelming" into "AI is the best teammate I've got."

01

Founders & individuals

I'll set up the workflows, agents, and tooling that quietly multiply your output — and teach you to drive them, so you're empowered, not dependent.

02

Product & engineering teams

I help teams weave AI into the product and the process — design-led, actually shipped, and free of the hype that ages badly.

03

Companies & investors

I advise on AI strategy and separate what's real from what's noise — where the leverage actually is, and what's safe to ignore.

Wondering where AI actually fits for you? That's my favorite question.

About

Serious about growth. Lighthearted by nature.

I've been making mobile apps since 2009 and 3D experiences in Unity since 2012. Somewhere along the way I helped publish 35+ of them — games, marketplaces, social platforms, and a stock market that trades influencers instead of companies.

I'm a developer who's genuinely good across the stack, but I excel at the front-end and design — the part where craft becomes something you can feel. I've also been a creative director, a marketing director, and an advisor to startups, investment firms, and AI companies.

I take myself and my own growth seriously — but I lead with humor, and there's little I enjoy more than making someone smile. Whatever you're building, I start from the same question: how can I help?

Off the clock, I'm an Eagle Scout — still wired to be prepared and to leave things better than I found them — and I love to cook, ideally for a full table.

Today I'm building Reffo & Pelagora— and I'm open to the right team, role, or advisory seat.

Let's talk

How can I help?

Hiring, raising, launching — or just stuck on something gnarly? Tell me what you're working on. I'd genuinely love to help.