About me

Patrick Nærvig WøhlkI'm a Digital Product Engineer with 11+ years at The LEGO Group — a product engineer at heart who turns fuzzy ideas into things people actually use, and who genuinely enjoys helping the people
around me do their best work. I value pragmatic, fact-based solutions, and I'm just as happy deep in a CI/CD pipeline as I am sketching a new product concept.

Experience

Jan 2023 — Present

Senior Engineer

The LEGO Group · LEGO Play

Currently contributing to the LEGO Play app — delivering marketing & campaign features through our home-grown block-based CMS, owning A/B testing for the kids apps, and keeping us honest on data & product privacy. Previously contributed, on Creative Experiences, I prototyped and user-tested canvas-based play experiences with Skia — Comic Books, Game Maker, Mosaic and Avatar Studio — and drove our GitLab → GitHub migration.
React Native · TypeScript · Node / tRPC · AWS

Feb 2022 — Jan 2023

Lead Engineer

The LEGO Group · Klik (now Connect)

looked after Klik — our design system and component library used by 30+ product teams — gathering feedback, running inner-sourcing, and (with no competency lead at the time) interviewing and hiring engineers. Sketched the early drafts of what became “Connect” and set up the CDN serving fonts & icons across most of LEGO.com.
React · Pulumi · TypeScript · Web Components

Jul 2019 — Feb 2022

Senior Engineer

The LEGO Group · Family Hub & LEGO Account

On Family Hub I set our ways of working, championed accessibility, and re-architected the external proof-of-concept from Vue to React onto LEGO's paved path. On LEGO Account I mentored juniors and interns and tuned user flows to lift sign-ups and conversion — with a couple of side hustles, including an “ecosystem profile” POC and the first Duck Builder for the LEGO Foundation.
React · TypeScript · Node · OpenID

Nov 2014 — Jul 2019

Engineer

The LEGO Group

Where it all started. From the account-creation flows behind LEGO Account 3.0 (and LEGO Life's playful sign-up), to internal tools in UX Mobility & Portals, to an in-house traceability platform for our retail integrations — and an augmented-reality HoloLens POC that surfaced machine temperature and pressure on the manufacturing floor.
C# · JavaScript · TypeScript

Education

2011 — 2016

AP Degree, Computer Science

ZBC — Zealand Business College

Off the clock

2019 — Present

Trooper, 501st Legion

Bad guys doing good. I suit up with the 501st to visit children's hospitals and create a bit of joy where it's needed most.

Ongoing

Homelab & infrastructure

Self-hosted

A multi-node Proxmox cluster with high availability and failover, a healthy pile of Docker containers, and plenty of infrastructure-automation tinkering. Currently teaching myself Ansible for provisioning.