Freelance front-end engineer Belgium · Remote

Complex product.Clear interface.

I help product teams turn knotty requirements into fast, thoughtful interfaces—without the agency relay race.

Alexander Claes smiling at the camera
Booking now for upcoming projects
01

One senior pair of hands.
No account layers.

What you get 02

You don’t need more meetings.

You need someone who can understand the problem, shape the interface and build the thing.

Ways I help 03

Design sense. Engineering depth.

Bring me in where it’s messy.

01

Untangle a product UI

Turn sprawling workflows and dense requirements into an interface people can move through with confidence.

  • UX direction
  • Prototyping
  • UI architecture
02

Build the front end properly

Production-ready interfaces with the responsiveness, accessibility and code quality the mockup doesn’t show.

  • Vue & React
  • TypeScript
  • Accessibility
03

Make a system hold together

Give teams a shared language and reusable foundations so each new feature gets easier—not harder—to ship.

  • Design systems
  • Storybook
  • Front-end strategy

The small print 04

No mystery team behind the curtain.

“The person in the first call is the person doing the work.”

That’s me. Hi.

10+years building front ends

1:1direct collaboration

BEbased in Belgium

How I work 05

Small loops. Visible progress.

Enough process to keep us honest.

  1. 01

    Get oriented

    We find the real constraint, define “done” and make sure I’m the right fit before we go deep.

    Listen · question · frame
  2. 02

    Make it visible

    I work in short, concrete loops. You see the decisions in the interface—not buried in a weekly status deck.

    Prototype · build · share
  3. 03

    Leave it stronger

    The result should work now and remain understandable to the people maintaining it after I leave.

    Refine · document · hand over

A bit about me 06

Engineer by trade.
Curious by default.

I’m Alexander, a front-end engineer from Belgium. I’ve spent more than a decade making complex digital products easier to understand and nicer to use.

I care about the unglamorous things that make good work last: clear thinking, useful feedback, accessible details and code the next person won’t curse at.

Outside the browser, I’m usually testing a mechanical keyboard, swimming a few laps, going for a run or getting lost in a game.

Got a knotty project? 07

Available for selected freelance work

Let’s make the complicated feel obvious.

alexander.claes10@gmail.com