What is a design engineer?
A design engineer is a hybrid practitioner who handles both interface design and production code in one head — from sketch to deployed Next.js without a handoff. Distinguished from a designer-who-codes by full ownership of build, performance, accessibility, and back-end integration; distinguished from a front-end engineer by primary fluency in design tokens, type, motion, and visual hierarchy.
What is David Rajnoha’s stack in 2026?
Next.js 16 App Router, React 19, TypeScript strict, Tailwind v4, Supabase (Postgres + RLS + pgvector + Realtime), Vercel AI SDK v6, OpenAI GPT-5.4-mini, Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.7 / Haiku 4.5), Vitest 4. Deployed on Vercel. Tooling: GSAP 3.13, Lenis 1.3, Figma. Working medium: Claude Code, Cursor, eval-driven dev.
Is David available for hire?
Yes — actively open in May 2026 to senior IC roles (full-stack, AI agentic, design engineer, founding engineer), freelance contracts, and consulting. Remote-preferred, EU + US time zones. Contact: davidrajnoha@bnsf-studio.com. Response time 24 hours on weekdays.
Where is David based?
Ostrava, Czech Republic. Fully remote globally for client work. Available for occasional travel within the EU.
What kind of AI work does David do?
Production agentic systems: multi-step agent loops with strict termination, three-layer memory (working / semantic / activity log), RAG with pgvector + hybrid search, multi-model orchestration (Sonnet draft / Opus critique / Haiku eval), trust-fence for prompt-injection isolation, eval-driven development. Two production AI products today: RELO (real-estate back-office agent, 27 tools) and a multi-tenant chatbot platform (5 adapters, 42 AI Assistant tools).
How does David differ from a designer-who-codes?
A designer-who-codes typically owns the front-end surface and hands the back-end to someone else. David owns the full stack — design tokens, motion, accessibility, build pipeline, server, database with RLS, agentic AI loops, eval pipelines, and deployment. The visual rhythm and the autonomous AI agent powering the page come from the same head, so design intent and engineering reality don’t drift apart at the handoff.
What does an engagement look like?
Three patterns. (1) Full-time senior IC role — embedded in a product team for 6+ months. (2) Freelance contract — defined scope, fixed price or monthly retainer, typically 4–12 weeks. (3) Consulting — AI architecture review or code audit, usually 1–4 weeks. All remote-preferred, EU + US time zones, Czech and English.