Louis Gillies
Lead Software Engineer at Ordaloca
East Devon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLouis Gillies is a seasoned software engineering leader with over two decades of experience delivering scalable web applications and leading cross-functional teams in startups and growth-stage companies in the UK. He is currently a Lead Software Engineer at Thriva and Co-Founder/CTO of Ordaloca, where he steers technology choices for a local commerce platform, building Ruby on Rails GraphQL APIs, React Native and React.js apps, and cloud-native DevOps on GCP/GKE with GitHub Actions CI/CD. He previously drove growth and integration at Realla, taking the marketplace from startup to acquisition and delivering performance-focused SEO and multi-channel lead tools. As a founder and technologist at TheBeerCow, he built a Shopify-based ecommerce store with custom Rails apps and Dockerized services. His career also includes leadership roles at Gillies Software and Artirix, where he led marketplace search and complex web applications. He earned a BSc in Geography from King's College London, a reminder that diverse training can fuel flexible problem-solving in software engineering.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Geography, BSc, Geography at King's College London, U. of London
English
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Github Skills (40)
facebook-messenger10
bots10
alexa-skills-kit10
sms10
microsoft-teams10
twilio10
facebook9
bot-application9
conversational-ui9
web-bot9
heroku9
crud9
gitter9
bot-framework8
chatbot8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
louisgillies/sunspot_plus
Nov 2021 - Jan 2024
Extensions to sunspot_rails
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
railsextensionsruby
louisgillies/botkit
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
chatbotbotbotkit
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